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...
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
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
Sean Scully’s work has been placed alongside a much-misunderstood seascape by Turner. The result is a fascinating exhibition full of insight, power an... read more