DJ Simpsons artwork displays an innovative, sculptural approach. Rather than applying paint on canvas, he uses an electric router to gouge marks into the birch plywood or Formika supports, creating imprints of swirling abstract lines and forms. He then coats the remainder of the plywood with a backdrop of enamel paints and laminates. Much of the excitement of DJ's work comes from the ways the router allows him to draw. The router generates line but is physically subtractive and acquires a spectral quality by containing the shadows cast by the depth of the support. Cutting the surface as a way of avoiding painting, but leaves drawing - or some version of drawing - intact. The intervention of the machine element shifts the control and application of pigment in unexpected ways, revisiting the Duchampian notion of the readymade. For over a decade now, British artist DJ Simpson has been developing a unique and coherent corpus of work in which the pictorial process becomes the main objective of his research: through the technique known as "routing" he eliminates layers of material he has previously selected and painstakingly superimposed to reveal aluminium, plywood and Plexiglas. In short, while in conventional painting the original surface is the canvas to which different materials are applied, Simpson takes an industrial surface as his starting point, and from this he begins to remove material. DJ's work has held very strong connections to architecture with his show at Entwistle (January 2000) as the most considered statement regarding architecture. Panel works were positioned leaning diagonally on the floor such that each rested at one end in a corner of the space and at the other end projected into the room. Born in Lancaster in 1966, DJ Simpson lives and works in London. Simpson was featured in Contemporary Art Society's ARTfutures 2008 and 2007 held at Bloomberg SPACE, London. Simpson was also commissioned by the Contemporary Art Society Consultancy to create a major wall-based work on a building that bordered the Olympic Park in east London in 2010. DJ Simpson's works are included in the following public collections; Bart's Hospital, London; Centro De Arte Salamanca (CASA), Spain; Charles Saatchi (destroyed in Momart Fire), UK; Jan Cunen Museum Oss, The Netherlands; MIMA (Muddlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), UK; Sheffield Hallam University, UK; MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain. DJ Simpson's works are included in the following Corporate Collections; ABN-AMRO, The Netherlands and UK; Dresdner Kleinwort, London, UK; Ernst & Young LLP, London, UK; Goldman Sachs, London, UK; Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau in Frankfurt, Germany; Sammlung Melitta, Minden, Germany; Stanhope PLC, London, UK.