1. BY: SHANE MOORE SEAN SCULLY

2. BIOGRAPHY Born in Dublin, Ireland on June 30,1945 and moved with his family to England in 1949 where he grew up. In 1960 he apprenticed at a commercial printing shop in London and joins a graphic design studio. He studied painting at the Croydon College of Art from 1965-1967. In 1975 he moved to the United States and became a Citizen of the U.S in 1983. Scully's work is heavily influenced by the American and European traditions, embodied in the figures of Mondrian and Matisse in Europe, and Pollock and Rothko in America. His art is characterized by marks of thick brushstrokes and textured surfaces. Scully's paintings are often made up of a number of panels and are abstract. Most of his pieces feature stripes and in some alternating areas of vertical and horizontal stripes are arranged in a chessboard pattern. Scully paints in oils, sometimes laying the paint on quite thickly to create textured surfaces. All of his colors in his paintings are complex and are taken from memories of the natural world and then used to humanize the urban grid. Scully’s paintings are full of ambition and are made to fill up space.

3. HIDDEN PICTURE #3 1975 ACRYLIC AND TAPE ON CANVAS 84 X 84 INCHES

4. ADORATION 1982 OIL ON CANVAS LINEN AND WOOD 108 X 156

5. DURANGO 1990 OIL ON LINEN 289.5 X 457.2

6. BIGLAND OIL ON CANVAS 244.7 X 406.7

7. WALL OF LIGHT DESERT DAY 2003 OIL ON LINEN 274.3 X 335.3

8. SMALL CHELSEA, WALL OF LIGHT #2 2000 OIL ON CANVAS

9. BEACH, WALL OF LIGHT OIL ON CANVAS 40 X 50 INCHES

10. NIGHT, WALL OF LIGHT 2003 OIL ON CANVAS 84 X 96 INCHES

11. HOLLY 2004 OIL ON LINEN 190.5 X 215.9

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13. SOURCES http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/Scully/Detail.cfm?IRN= 128824 http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/Scully/Detail.cfm?IRN= 128901&ViewID=2 http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/Scully/Detail.cfm?IRN= 89020&ViewID=2