BIOGRAPHY
Born England , 28 th December 1948.
1961' Island of Coal' National Art Competition (sponsored by the British Coal Board) 3rd prize
for 'Moving coal'
1969 Great Yarmouth College of Art and Design in Norfolk , England . Course in
Vocational Graphics
1974 He passed the LSIAD (Licentiate Society of Industrial Artists Diploma) in
Vocational Graphics.
1974 London , NCK (Norman Craig and Kummel) advertising agency, visualization artist.
1976 Freelance Graphic and Typographic designer.
1981 New Zealand , Auckland , Magic Fingers art studio, illustrator.
1982 Australia , Adelaide . Art career was put on hold while children were growing up.
1990 NSW, Bellingen. He gave up his career as audiometrist to develop his art full-time.
Greatly inspired by the work of French Pointillists, and Georges Seurat in particular,
he developed his own pointillist style, which, as he painted at local art and craft markets,
became well known in the area.
1994 NSW, Tweed Valley . He further developed my Pointillist art style and held his first
Pointillist Art Exhibition at the Tumbulgum Art Gallery . He became a founder member
of ARTS (Artists Representing Tweed Shire) where he participated in meetings and
exhibitions at Dali's Café in Murwillumbah. For three years he painted publicly at Dali's
café during the week and at Local art and crafts markets at weekends.
2000 He entered a Pointillist painting “The Now Age” in the Science-Art Festival
in Murwillumbah. As a result he became very interested in Science-Art (putting humanity
back into science) both for its symbolism and its philosophy.
2001 Archibald National Portrait Prize. He entered a Pointillist portrait 'Professor
Robert Pope,' who is the Director of SARCA (Science-Art Research Centre of Australia).
2002 Border Art Prize. ‘Highly Commended' award for “Wonder world”.
2003 'Gold Coast Masters' open art competition, RQAS (Royal Queensland Art Society)
First Prize for “I am Woman”
2004 RQAS (Royal Queensland Art Society) Open Art prize. ‘Highly Commended' for
fractal pointillist painting 'Secret Moon Business'
2004 Following his return from an extraordinary spiritual journey in Egypt he produced
a series of Pointillist paintings depicting aspects of ancient Egypt . During this phase he
discovered that, when his art work was viewed through chromadepth lenses, the paintings
took on a 3D effect...
2006 He became a founder member of SAGA (Science-Art Guild of Australia). He moved
away from Pointillism and experimented with creating works to achieve instantly
recognizable 3D effects.
2007 He wrote and published his Science-Art paper “Science-Art Colour Theory and the
Holographic Nature of Reality'. This paper concerns the evolution of vision and the role
of the visual artist in conveying this to the world at large. He is currently concentrating on
achieving greater colour definition in detailed artwork.
2008 He experimented with computer graphics, using semi-transparent overlays to achieve
a holographic effect in his paintings. This becomes instantly recognizable with the use of
'Chromadepth' 3D lenses.
2010 He began creating paintings with a social message, one of which is 'The Invasion'
his artistic response to the state government of New South Wales Imposing a high speed
car crash rally through national parks,during the Koala's breeding season. To do so, they
used special legislation to override environmental and safety laws, leaving local residents
with the feeling of being invaded. This painting was banned from exhibition by the Tweed
Shire Council, at the Murwillumbah public library, where Degs was asked to mount a display
of his work. As this was blatant art censorship by a largely pro-car rally council, This little
saga enjoyed some coverage in the media.
2013 Founder member of 21st Century Renaissance in science and art. Feature artist in 21st
Century Renaissance book. Contributing artist to 2013 Milan Quantum Science Exhibition.
Chris Degenhardt joined Fine Art America on August 16th, 2010.
