Sean Scully comes back to Ireland to be honoured in his birthplace
“I’m coming to a very emotional place,” he says of his visit to Richmond Barracks while nodding to the transformative power of people and place “these... read more
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In my paintings you will find titles such as ‘The Bather’, ‘Angel’, ‘Wall of Light Desert Night’. These titles emphatically testify to the relationship between my work and places and figures in our world. Yet they are abstract in the sense that I can start from my own energy and history, and ‘attach’ the painting as it reveals itself.
From Notes on Australia and the transformation of material and image by Sean Scully. Read more...
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A beautiful exhibition of a magnificent painter: Sean Scully at the National Gallery reviewed
Encountering a room of Scullys you might think: ‘Oh, a lot of stripes and squares’. But if you look at one for a while it takes you over. Like the tee... read more
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Sea Star — Sean Scully review: Colour is the winner in this elegant wrestle with Turner’s legacy
In three rooms we see Scully pushing and pulling surface and depth in dense pastels, exquisitely watery aquatint and spitbite prints, and vast paintin... read more