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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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 and doing ‘the biggest st... 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 January 3, 2021, and shown ... read more
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Sean Scully Closes His Windows
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
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Sean Scully to have first show in Switzerland in nearly a decade
"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
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Sean Scully to have first show in Switzerland in nearly a decade
"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
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Pablo Picasso’s Former Studio in an 18th-Century French Château Will Host an Exhibition
“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
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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 can become places for ch... 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 teenage painter spending his... 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 paintings, where he continues to... read more
Sean Scully at Cuadra San Cristobal, 2018
Photo by Felix Friedmann