Michael Fullerton

Audrey Azouley (Magenta Version), 2021

46 × 61 cm

Oil on canvas

Unique, signed and dated

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Michael Fullerton’s work is concerned with how political and historical information is recorded and disseminated, in particular through the medium of the oil-painted portrait. Audrey Azouley (Magenta) is part of a series of four paintings of the Director-General of UNESCO depicted in the CMYK spectrum of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The form of portraiture articulated by Fullerton approaches the ambivalent registers of representation. In this work, he depicts a key female politician in a mode that until recently has been reserved for male leaders - a concentrated calm against an unruly sky and scenic backdrop. Yet the use of a subtractive colour model and its electric intensity also produces strangeness –producing the feeling of both moving closer to and further away from the essence of the subject. Michael Fullerton (b. 1971, Bellshill, UK) lives and works in Glasgow. He has had solo exhibitions at Greene Naftali, New York (2021, 2014); Pump House Gallery, London (2019); Carl Freedman Gallery, London (2015, 2007); S1 Space, Sheffield and Graves Gallery, Museums Sheffield (2015); Chisenhale Gallery, London (2010); and Tate Britain, London (2005).