Ahead of a major retrospective at the Hungarian National Gallery, Irish abstract artist Sean Scully reflects on six decades of redefining abstraction and doing ‘the biggest st... read more
"The Waldfrieden Sculpture Park in Wuppertal, Germany, is presenting an exhibition entitled INSIDEOUTSIDE, by the Irish artist Sean Scully, through January 3, 2021, and shown ... read more
For artists, the new pandemic reality means canceled exhibitions, day-job uncertainty, and fears of an industrywide contraction. Like everyone else, they’re trying to adjust. ... read more
"The Dublin-born painter Sean Scully is to have his first show in Switzerland in almost a decade, opening next month at the neo-classical Forum Paracelsus in St Moritz, which ... read more
"The Dublin-born painter Sean Scully is to have his first show in Switzerland in almost a decade, opening next month at the neo-classical Forum Paracelsus in St Moritz, which ... read more
“When I walked into Boisgeloup, I found that I couldn’t exhibit in the house because it’s coming from another time, another world. I preferred the rougher spaces,” says Scully... read more
“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 can become places for ch... 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 teenage painter spending his... 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 paintings, where he continues to... 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 and glorious melting colour... read more
Sean Scully at Cuadra San Cristobal, 2018
Photo by Felix Friedmann