Field Notes

01.04 - 19.05.2020

An exhibition of recent paintings, prints and drawings by Andrew Sutherland

Sutherland has been an avid adventurer and armchair traveller since he was a child. His capacity to plunge into a meaningful imaginative journey through images is at times as visceral an experience as his actual trips through Taiwan, Vietnam and South Africa. He is a passionate collector of picture books, relishing the curious scenes of landscapes, animals and plants that historic explorers have published, whether in pursuit of vague scientific credence or nostalgic reflection.

For his latest solo exhibition at Salon Ninety One titled Field Notes, Sutherland has embodied the position of the explorer and amassed an amazing collection of drawings, paintings and prints of his imaginative adventures through images. He is contently seduced by the faded colour palettes of old books or early photographs and finds innovative expression for this passion in new techniques featured on Field Notes for the first time. These include impasto oil paintings on primed paper, as well as his first risographs - a form of digital printing that uses colour separations.

In Field Notes Sutherland crafts a wistful portrait of the adventurer-explorer from yesteryear. His saturation in experiences mediated by book, film or documentary has led him to exploit a variety of artistic surfaces and painted marks in the exhibition. Through digital print, oil paint, acrylic and drawings, Sutherland invites viewers to immerse themselves in an imaginative journey through picture places of wonder.

Andrew Sutherland is inspired by wanderlust and the narratives that underlie human encounters with the natural world. His work relishes the delights of landscape in painted planes that combine graphic and illustrative elements with more traditionally painterly, expressive marks. His taste for adventure follows through with a long and explorative history of experimentation with different materials: watercolours, brush pens, acrylic paints, charcoal, ink, spray paint or collage on canvas, paper, wood or wall. Sutherland’s training was in Fine Art at The Ruth Prowse School of Art, after which he worked as an assistant to a local abstract painter in Cape Town.

He travels and adventures frequently so that in both artwork and life his subtext remains that of the intrepid explorer.

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ANDREW SUTHERLAND is inspired by wanderlust and the narratives that underlie human encounters with the natural world. His work relishes the delights of landscape in painted planes that combine graphic and illustrative elements with more traditionally painterly, expressive marks. His taste for adventure follows through with a long and explorative history of experimentation with different materials: watercolours, brush pens, acrylic paints, charcoal, ink, spray paint or collage on canvas, paper, wood or wall. Sutherland’s training was in Fine Art at The Ruth Prowse School of Art, after which he worked as an assistant to a local abstract painter in Cape Town. He travels and adventures frequently so that in both artwork and life his subtext remains that of the intrepid explorer.

2021 – This Time Tomorrow, solo exhibition, Salon91. 2020 – Field Notes, solo exhibition, Salon91; A Hazy Shade of Winter, group exhibition, Salon91. 2019 – Drifter, solo exhibition, Salon91; Wildflowers, end-of-year group salon in aid of Ilitha Labantu, Salon91; Regarding Winter, group exhibition, Salon91. 2018 – Folklore, end-of-year group show, Salon91; Turbine Art Fair with Salon91; Unmapped, solo exhibition, Salon91. 2017 – Trees Make Forests, group exhibition, Salon91; Turbine Art Fair with Salon91; Shelter, solo exhibition, Salon91; Strong Silence, group exhibition, Gallery 2, Johannesburg. 2016 – Oracle, end-of-year group exhibition, Salon91; Turbine Art Fair with Salon91; Paper is You III, group exhibition, Salon91; No One’s Land, 99 Loop, Cape Town; Kingdom 3, Equus Gallery, Cavalli Estate, Somerset West; Reverie, the AGOG Gallery, Johannesburg. 2015 – Stellar, group exhibition, Salon91; Jou Daaglikse Dosis, Aardklop, Potchefstroom; This is the Place, Salon91; Winter Mash-Up, Alex Hamilton Gallery, Cape Town. 2014 – Other Dust, solo exhibition, Salon91; Golden Haze, Salon91; ID Entity II, In Toto Gallery, Johannesburg. 2013 – The Editions Show, Salon91; Birds and Bikes, Lei Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan. 2012 – The Tobacco Factory Show, solo exhibition, The Tobacco Factory, Bristol, UK. 2011 – The Sprawl, solo exhibition, Galerie de Lyons, Cape Town; If You Let Yourself Love a Wild Thing, Salon91; Paper is You, Salon91. 2010 – Coppertone 77, Salon91; Tretchikoff and Me, Salon91. 2008 – Group Salon, Salon91.

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