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
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 develop his language.
And while Scully’s paintings do evoke land, sea and sky, they’re as likely to reference the medieval Book of Durrow, Moroccan textiles and Van Gogh’s colour and mark-making. We see a painter wrestling not just with Turner’s legacy, but with the history of his medium. And, thankfully, without the forced juxtapositions that can ruin this kind of show.
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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