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
ANDREW SOUTHALL
Born Melbourne 1947
Selected Exhibitions
1975/79 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1976/77 Warehouse Gallery, Melbourne
1977 Solander Gallery, Canberra
1980/81/84 Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1983/85 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1984 Tynte Gallery, Adelaide & Greenhill Gallery, Perth
1985 Crane Kalman Gallery, London
1986 Greenhill Gallery, Adelaide / Perth, & United Artists
Gallery, Melbourne
1986 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
1987 New South Wales House, London , “Australian
Bicentenary Exhibition”, Fischer Fine Art, London
1989 City Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
1991 Redfern Gallery, London (Group Show x 4)
1992 The Gallery at John Jones, London
1993 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Published autobiography ‘But – A Journey into
Addiction’ Hudson, Melbourne
2007 Modern mix Group show, Ochre Gallery Melbourne
2008 Ochre Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Ochre Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Ochre gallery, Melbourne & PG Printmaker Gallery,
Melbourne
2011 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Abstraction 10
2012 Charles Nodrum gallery, Melbourne, Abstraction 11,
2012 Langford120, Melbourne.
2013 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne (Group show x 3)
2013 Langford 120, Melbourne
2013 “Thirteen”, Group Show of Australian, American & UK
Artists, LaTrobe University Gallery, Bendigo
2014 Langford 120, Melbourne
2015 Woodbine Art, Malmsbury, Drawings & Langford 120,
Melbourne,“Both And”
2016 La Trobe Visual Art Centre, Bendigo, Self-Portraits,
2016 Woodbine Art, Malmsbury & Langford120, Melbourne
Collections Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Mercy Teachers College Victoria
Visual Arts Board
Art Bank
Toorak Teachers College
Australian Council
New England Regional Art Gallery
New South Wales Parliament Offices
University of Western Australia
National Roads & Motorists Association
Sydney Stock Exchange
New Parliament House Canberra
Private collections
Collections International
Mobil Oil, UK
Comico Holdings, UK
Reuters America
Falmouth City Art Gallery, UK
Private collections
Prizes
1982 Finalist Blake Prize
1982 Awarded Inaugural Williamstown Prize,
2007 Finalist Drawing Together
2007 Finalist Dominique Segan drawing Prize
2007 Finalist Darebin LaTrobe Art Prize
2008 Finalist Banyule Works On Paper
2008, Finalist John Leslie Prize
2009 Finalist Darebin LaTrobe Prize
2012 Finalist Paul Guest Drawing Prize
2013 Finalist Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize
2013 Finalist Swan Hill Drawing and Print Prize
2015 Finalist Mildura BMW Australian Print Triennial Prize
2015 Finalist Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize
2016 Finalist Wyndham Art Prize
2016 Finalist Swan Hill Drawing and Print Prize – both categories
2016 Finalist National Works on Paper Prize
