In Yellow, Brillo Yellow

Andrew Southall

9 Sep

2023

2023

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7 Oct

2023

cbOne Gallery signals the start of spring with In Yellow, Brillo Yellow, a focus on the recent yellow works by prolific artist Andrew Southall including painting, sculpture and drawing.

Andrew Southall offers us a deep dive into the yellow that has come into play throughout his extensive oeuvre. With half a century of dedicated practice, Southall’s creative drive has led him through a myriad of mediums, styles and subject matter in pursuit of personal expression and expansive experience. Well known for his graphite drawings of landscapes and major self- portrait project, his accomplishments span across exhibited paintings, drawings, photography, prints and published writing. In distilling all things to a single tone, we are shown the possibilities of colour to resonate with associations and emotions that are at once deeply personal and universal.

In Yellow, Brillo Yellow 2023, installation view.

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Andrew Southall’s work has few if any boundaries, seemingly uninfluenced by external pressures or requests.

Southall approaches art of and in the moment. Within that moment there is an interest to be explored, an un-prescribed duration of exploration; and when that idea is fleshed out, exhausted, a new moment, a new idea, sensation, takes its place to be interrogated until it also has given up all that it has to offer.

This cycle of expression is unrelenting; encompassing painting – writing – drawing – sculpture – photography – printing and combinations of these.

The one area that the viewer may think is constant is the self-portraits, but these also are only moments of exploration, each one an individual moment that can never be revisited. Southall’s work may best be explained as a progression, a cycle an evolution of ideas continually evolving but never returning backwards.

Southall’s facility as an artist and technician is immense; to render in detail highly accurate realism, to balance complex colour combinations, or explore abstract expressions that question what is art? Southall’s work negates the question of “like” or “dislike”. The sheer breadth and weight of work leaves the viewer with no other option than that of critic, to engage with the work in critical discourse.  

- Michael Powell, 2019

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