“Astral Village”
Sean Bailey
5 May → 20 May 2006
Sean Bailey’s approach to art reflects his involvement in the hand/home made and the immediate nature of the DIY aesthetic.
From misshapen, seemingly thrown together sculptures, installations, collages and drawings to hand made cassettes and records, Sean creates art that explores the sub-currents that flow beneath the ground of consumption and conditioning. Sean’s fantastical aesthetic and immediate approach to artmaking explore the hidden energy of things, and the desire to incite transformations of conditioning and reality.
Bailey is a recent graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts painting department. He has shown most recently at Seventh, T.C.B and Clubs.
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.