DOMOBAAL

Mikey Cuddihy: Curious Yellow

18.04.26 – 02.05.26 + 13.05.26 – 06.06.26

(Mikey Cuddihy: Curious Yellow, see pdf for text and list of works)

Mikey Cuddihy
Curious Yellow

domobaal is delighted to present '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 …