Artist: Mikey Cuddihy

domobaal presents 'Curious Yellow', Mikey Cuddihy's third solo exhibition in the gallery, following 'Don't I Know Myself?' in 2024 and 'Broadsheet' in 2023.

Curious Yellow

I hadn't forgotten her, I just couldn't remember her name.
Only when I looked back did I remember.
There she was, in an old catalogue, clearly titled, with dimensions and materials listed (Curious Yellow, 1996, 175×116.5cm, gesso & acrylic on canvas).
Walking into the auction rooms, I spotted her immediately, propped up on a piece of furniture, leaning against a wall at the far end of the warehouse.
It was curious, meeting her again after all these years!

Yellows
1965 … the lemon stone necklace bought as a child from an antique shop in Rye
1969 … the yellow t–shirt dress from Biba (worn in Paris when I was 17) with the necklace wrapped around my wrist)
1971 … the wardrobe in my London flat that someone had painted bright glossy yellow
1974 … the yellow tracksuit bottoms with big red strawberries on them sent from my uncle in America that I never wore, but my son did 30 years later
1990's … The Yellow Wallpaper … a book by Charlotte Perkins Gillman
the yellow post–its i doodled & wrote notes on at work that I brought home to the studio for inspiration
1996 … Curious Yellow
1990–2011 … the hallway in our house in Beck Road that I painted 'Punk Yellow'
2024 … the doodle in biro on the square flat sponge when my brother died
2025 … the doodle in biro about Kathy’s exhibition on the yellow page of a Sunday Magazine
now: … that yellow pleated paper shape (like a boat)
the painted paper dresses – lemon and saffron
the cut and painted paper shape I placed in a corner
now: … the cover of this exercise book
and more …