My cultural life: Artist Sean Scully
Dublin-born artist Sean Scully is known worldwide for his abstract paintings of blocks and stripes of bold colour. 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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Sean Scully on self-belief, election billboards and the perils of rural Germany
Ahead of a major retrospective at the Hungarian National Gallery, Irish abstract artist Sean Scully reflects on six decades of redefining abstraction ... read more
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Ahead of Major Retrospectives, Take a Look at Sean Scully's Latest Monumental Sculptures in Germany
"The Waldfrieden Sculpture Park in Wuppertal, Germany, is presenting an exhibition entitled INSIDEOUTSIDE, by the Irish artist Sean Scully, through Ja... read more