Tobias Ross-Southall

Tobias Ross-Southall is an award-winning artist, filmmaker and curator from London, currently based in Puebla, Mexico. His paintings are defined by dynamic minimalist forms and expressive brush work, containing fields of washed-out and bleeding monochromatic colour on raw canvas. These figurative shapes become abstract, ethereal and uncanny. Ross-Southall also experiments with charcoal on raw canvas and traditional printmaking techniques, such as etching, aquatint and monotype, to create raw and intimate contemporary vignettes. The artist explores notions of mortality, melancholy and love. He discusses themes of artificial intelligence and the future of our place in this new world. These emotional experiences are rendered as both powerful and vulnerable.