Sean Scully: Mirroring
An intervention by Sean Scully (b. Dublin, 1945), showcasing a body of his work alongside that of Italian master Giorgio Morandi (1890 – 1964).
Wednesday - Saturday: 11.00 – 18.00 Sunday: 12.00 – 17.00
Sean Scully
The Art Diary September 2025 – Revd Jonathan Evens
September provides an opportunity to look back as well as look forward. The celebrations for the centenary of Francis Newton Souza’s birth culminated in the first half of 2025.
30 August 2025
Sean Scully At 80: A Celebration Of Colour and Form
Happy Birthday, Sean, and congratulations on reaching your 80th decade. You have inspired a generation of young artists and reopened… Read More
1 July 2025
The Art Diary November 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
I begin the November Art Diary with exhibitions by artists with whom I have some former connections, starting with some I have interviewed, such as Michael Petry, Sean Scully and Genesis Tramaine.
4 November 2024
The Art Diary December 2023 – Revd Jonathan Evens
December’s art diary begins with books that would make interesting gifts this Christmas before focusing on our usual eclectic mix of exhibition
4 December 2023
Sean Scully A Humility Towards Nature – Interview Rev Jonathan Evens
Sean Scully talks to Rev Jonathan Evens about his art, the creative process and nature.
30 April 2023
Sean Scully To Take Over Houghton Hall For Groundbreaking Exhibition
Sean Scully has been chosen to take over the grounds and historic interiors of Houghton Hall in Norfolk
13 March 2023
Hidden UK, Hidden Ireland Curated by Sean Scully
A group exhibition curated by Sean Scully.
Tuesday - Saturday 11 - 6pm,
Sean Scully Explores The Role Of The Square In New Dublin Exhibition
The art of Sean Scully is widely acknowledged as among the most influential proponents of abstraction during the last half-century — particular attention has often been paid to the square’s aesthetic potential and imaginative significance.
3 May 2022
Sean Scully: Paul 1984 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
To interpret, through paint, what verbal language cannot. No contemporary painter does this better than Sean Scully.
1 September 2021
Artist Power Couple Liliane Tomasko and Sean Scully – Newlands House Exhibition
Artist couple Liliane Tomasko and Sean Scully will present their practices side by side at Newlands House Gallery, West Sussex, for the first time in the UK.
29 June 2021
Sean Scully: Philosophical Poetic Pastoral The 12 / Dark Windows – Revd Jonathan Evens
Sean Scully has created new works for this exhibition in the world in which we currently live, with ‘the existential threat from COVID
4 April 2021
Sean Scully: Geometry as Gesture as Perception – Raphy Sarkissian
A momentous exhibition staged at the Museum of Fine Arts—Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, “Sean Scully: Passenger—A Retrospective” celebrates
26 January 2021
Ellora Sutton and Elsie Hayward Win Inaugural Artlyst Art to Poetry Award
Ellora Sutton and Elsie Hayward have been announced as the inaugural winners of the Artlyst Art to Poetry Award
31 July 2020
Sean Scully: Rhythm, Restraint, Splendor – Raphy Sarkissian
Painting, sculpture, architecture: here is a triumvirate wherein painting and sculpture remain in commanding dialogue with architecture throughout the impressive output of Sean Scully, as exemplified in the exhibition titled INSIDEOUTSIDE currently on view at the Villa Waldfrieden and the Cragg Foundation Sculpture Park in Wuppertal
11 July 2020
Sean Scully In Conversation With Kelly Grovier – Lockdown 2020 – Video Added
Lockdown 2020 and the art world has been brought to a grinding halt. Major exhibitions that have taken years to plan and organize have been postponed indefinitely or scrapped altogether.
7 May 2020
Sean Scully’s Philadelphia Museum Retrospective Postponed
The highly anticipated Philadelphia Museum of Art solo exhibition by the Irish/American artist Sean Scully has been postponed. The announcement was made today 20/04/2020.
20 April 2020
Sean Scully Unveils Exhibition At Picasso’s Château de Boisgeloup
A new exhibition of paintings and sculpture by the contemporary Irish/American artist Sean Scully (b. 1945, Dublin) has opened in Picasso’s historic former studio at the Château de Boisgeloup.
27 October 2019
Venice Biennale Collateral Exhibitions Provide Calm and Quality
It was a relief to step away from the hustle and bustle of the Giardini and Arsenale, the main venues for the 58th Venice Biennale, to visit exhibitions elsewhere.
14 May 2019
Sean Scully Unveils New Sculptural And Figurative Works During Venice Biennale
The Irish/American artist Sean Scully unveils Human: an exhibition of recent works both new and unseen pieces at the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
28 April 2019
Sean Scully National Gallery – Rembrandt and Now Gagosian – Edward Lucie-Smith
At first glance, the Sean Scully show that just opened at the National Gallery in London couldn’t be more different from the exhibition not far away at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill. It features just one artist, rather than a series of well-known names.
16 April 2019
Sea Star: Sean Scully at the National Gallery
See new work by Sean Scully inspired by the National Gallery Collection and Joseph Mallord William Turner’s ‘The Evening Star’.
Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm
Sean Scully: Architecture Of The Sublime – Edward Lucie-Smith
Sean Scully is extremely widely known as a painter. Indeed, I might go so far as to say that he is as widely known as any contemporary painter now living.
4 October 2018
Sean Scully Overview Announced For Blain|Southern During London’s Frieze Week
A new exhibition of work by the Abstract painter Sean Scully titled, ‘Uninsideout’, featuring large-scale, multi-panel paintings, as well as works on paper, sculpture and a group of his celebrated Landline paintings has been announced by Blain|Southern
22 August 2018
Sean Scully: Uninsideout
A solo exhibition of works by Sean Scully to coincide with Scully’s recently announced exhibition Inside Out at Yorkshire Sculpture Park from 29 September.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Sculpture in the City 2018 Splashes Out On Impressive Free Exhibition
This year’s annual Sculpture in the City’ exhibition (launching on 27 June) will include works from international artists including Sarah Lucas, Sean Scully and Marina Abramovic.
22 June 2018
Sean Scully: First UK Sculpture And Painting Exhibition Announced For YSP
Sean Scully is to create an ambitious new exhibition of both his paintings and his less known three-dimensional works, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YPS) in September.
14 April 2018
Sean Scully – Newcastle Where It All Began – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new Sean Scully show in Newcastle is spread over two galleries, the Laing and the Hatton, and contains no… Read More
12 February 2018
Sean Scully Returns To Newcastle And Liverpool For Major Retrospective Exhibitions
The international abstract painter Sean Scully will be exhibited across the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, and the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University from 10 February – 28 May 2018.
29 January 2018
Sean Scully Indisputably The Most Universal Living Contemporary Artist- Edward Lucie-Smith
One name immediately sprang to mind – that of the born Irish, once British, now American painter Sean Scully.
4 January 2018
Sean Scully Works To Be Displayed At Cuadra San Cristóbal Mexico
Works by one of the world’s leading abstract artists, Sean Scully will go on show at Luis Barragán’s iconic modernist landmark, Cuadra San Cristóbal in Mexico City from 7 February – 24 March 2018.
21 December 2017
Sean Scully: The Noble Legacy Of Constructivism MAMM Moscow
Sean Scully has been a driving force in Abstract painting since the 1980s.
9 November 2017