Sean Scully’s practice aligns itself with the tenets of the Abstract Expressionists — that painting can convey spiritual immanence using abstract means; Brian P Kennedy considers this argument, ahead of the unveiling this spring of the Scully room at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
The work of Sean Scully affirms our need and capacity as human beings to have spiritual affiliation with each other . The artist’s sensitivity to enduring truths is spoken through the language of abstraction
The nature of Scully’s practice is a ritualistic, determined pursuit of the multiple possibilities of his chosen subject matter — vertical and horizontal (rarely diagonal) stripes and blocks of layered colour
