In I’m All For Yellow, artist Holly Stevenson uses colour as both material and argument. The work layers pink, blue and yellow—hues culturally coded from birth to signal and regulate gender. Pink and blue operate as visual shorthand, enforcing expectation through fashion and social conditioning.

Yellow, often framed as “neutral,” becomes the work’s quiet provocation. Stevenson centres a yellow sphere, recalling an egg yolk, drawing attention to its biological associations: unfertilised, carrying an X chromosome and suspended in a state prior to imposed identity. Encircled by pink and blue, the form sits within a field of expectation while resisting absorption into it.

The title reads as playful yet declarative. Rather than rejecting colour coding outright, the artist reclaims it, proposing fluidity over fixity. The viewer is invited to imagine the yellow sphere returned to its shell—a space of possibility before categorisation.

Translated into Risograph print, the layered inks intensify the chromatic interplay. The overlaps between pink, blue and yellow echo the artist’s wider ceramic practice, where exaggerated forms and vibrant glazes challenge rigid binaries.

Produced in a limited print edition of 100, I’m All For Yellow extends Holly Stevenson’s ongoing critique of gender stereotyping through humour, materiality and subtle defiance.

Learn more about artist Holly Stevenson