After high school, Moscou worked in the construction industry, where he learnt to work adeptly with his hands. Thereafter, he studied theatre in London and filmmaking in Los Angeles.
In 2019, Moscou taught himself to paint, producing compositions that were bright in colour and pseudo-modernist in style: abstract paintings resembled works by pre-War futurists and mystics like Giacomo Balla or Hilma af Klint, while figurative compositions were almost Fauvist in styles that recall Henri Matisse or André Derain. Ultimately, however, Moscou enjoys “Having no indoctrinated conceptions of how things should be done,” preferring to be moved by the “drive to investigate and experiment.”
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Biography

Moscou was born in Johannesburg and moved to Boolaroo (Perth) in Western Australia as a child.
Since teaching himself how to paint in 2019, Moscou has had two solo exhibitions, MUDSLINGER at Cheap Tongue Gallery, Fremantle (2024) and CHIGGY CHIGG at mixed use space Local and Aesthetic, Perth (2021). He also participated in the group show Small at Stala Contemporary, Perth (2024).
Exhibitions
Vela Projects presents Mount Analogue, the gallery’s first group exhibition, featuring work by Nada Baraka, Cheryl Traub-Adler, Samuel Moscou, and Tzung Hui Lauren Lee.
The title is borrowed from Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing by René Daumal. The unfinished novel follows a group of explorer – philosophers who seek to discover Mount Analogue, a mythical mountain, a bridge between heaven and earth.