Lisson Street: Sean Scully | Leiko Ikemura

Sean Scully

Sean Scully’s abstraction has always held landscape as a touchstone. With a huge salon-style array of drawings, watercolors, photographs, and written works on paper, dating from the 1960s before the artist attended art school, all the way through his career to drawings made in the last week of 2025, Scully reveals how enmeshed landscape and the natural world is to his way of seeing and thinking. The classic 2005 'Aran' series of 24 black-and-white photographs taken on the eponymous island off the west coast of Ireland will also be exhibited. Scully's affinity with the ancient traditions of layering and stacking present in the rough-hewn piles of rocks, the horizontal bands and tessellating gestures that his photography reveals, becomes clear. Two large paintings on aluminum complete the presentation.

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