Sean Bailey
Field Effects
3 September - 8 October 2022
Sean Bailey’s paintings and sculptures are focused on material process, using modelling paste, pumice stone and sand to build sculptural surfaces, his mark making is intuitive. Bailey draws from his personal lexicon of formal, organic and symbolic imagery referencing both the industrial and natural world. Interested in the strict confines and parameters of the painting surface, Bailey investigates what can be conjured within the pictorial space, the process and chance of his practice, its limitations and also its potential to extend beyond the border of the picture frame.
Field Effects sees an evolution for Bailey in both scale and approach. Heavily textured surfaces reference a burgeoning world on the edge of collapse.
Bailey’s solo exhibitions include: Sydney Contemporary; RM, Auckland; First Draft, Sydney; and in Melbourne at Daine Singer, Gertrude Contemporary, Neon Parc, West Space, T.C.B., Joint Hassles and Clubs Project Space. He has participated in group exhibitions at University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; Gambia Castle, Auckland; Special, Auckland; Amsterdam Biennial; Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney; CAST, Hobart; Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, and in many Melbourne spaces including: ACCA, Spring 1883 Art Fair, Gertrude Contemporary, Sutton Project Space, Hell Gallery, Bus Gallery, Utopian Slumps, T.C.B. and Seventh. As a musician he is known for playing in groups including Paeces, Wasted Truth, Vivian Girls, Lakes, TOL and TAX as well as running the private press label Inverted Crux. He has a BFA (2005) from the Victorian College of Arts and has been a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary.
