Sean Bailey
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.
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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.
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Sean Bailey (born 1977 Adelaide, lives Melbourne)
Education
2001 Diploma of Visual Arts, Centre for Adult Education, Melbourne
2005 Bachelor of Fine Art, Painting, Victorian College of the ArtsSolo Exhibitions
2025 Group Fragments, Daine Singer
2022 Field Effects, Daine Singer
2019 Landscapes, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2017 Process and Entropy, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2015 Total Form, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2014 Gertrude Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2014 Marked and Uttering, West Space, Melbourne
2013 Daine Singer at Sydney Contemporary, Sydney
2013 Order and Decay, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2011 Union of Opposites, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2011 Terrestrial Asylum, RM, Auckland, New Zealand2010 Sean Bailey/Jess Lucas, Neon Parc, Melbourne
2009 Transcendental Axis, T.C.B, Melbourne
2008 Free Your Mind and Your Arse Will Follow, w/Alex Vivian, Joint Hassles project space, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne Exhibition Building
2007 Pagan Grind 2, First Draft, Sydney
2007 Pagan Grind, Joint Hassles, Melbourne
2006 Beard of Bees, Joint Hassles, Melbourne
2006 Astral Village, West Space, Melbourne
2005 Cavern Magnetism, T.C.B, Melbourne
2005 Transformational Surface, Clubs Project Space, MelbourneGroup Exhibitions
2022 O Horizon, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
2021 Spring1883, Melbourne
2020 Daine Singer at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2017 Double A-Side, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2016 Painting. More Painting, ACCA, Melbourne
2016 Sean Bailey/ Lucia Lantus, Melbourne
2016 Caves, Melbourne, curated by Storm Gold
2016 Heavy Forms, curated by Ace Wagstaff, Rubicon, Melbourne
2015 Yield, curated by Brent Harris, Greenwood Street Project, Melbourne
2015 Spring 1883 at The Establishment, Sydney
2014 Gertrude Studios Part One, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2014 The Dreamer is Still Asleep, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne
2014 Daine Singer at Spring 1883, Melbourne
2013 Third/Fourth: Artist Facilitated Biennale, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Christopher L G Hill
2013 A Million Bucks, curated by Justin Hinder, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2011 Catching Trucks, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2011 New Psychedelia, Queensland University Art Museum, Brisbane2011 Zero Dollar, West wing, Melbourne
2010 Texticles, TCB project space, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2010 Cluster and Connect, Sutton Project Space, Melbourne2010 Dream Weavers, Contemporary Art Spaces of Tasmania, Hobart
2010 Territorial Pissings, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2009 Melbourne Pavilion, Amsterdam Biennale, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009 Cross Coloring, Gambia Castle, New Zealand
2009 Cross Coloring, Hell Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Texticles, T.C.B, Melbourne
2009 Skin and Bones, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2008 The (self initiated, self funded) second (fourth) Y2K Melbourne Biennial of Art (and design), T.C.B, Melbourne
2008 One Hundred Sound Works by One Hundred Artists from the 21st Century, 21:100:100, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2008 Informal Rituals, T.C.B, Melbourne
2007 Taking Care of Business, T.C.B, Melbourne
2006 Joint Hassles First Show, Joint Hassles, Melbourne
2006 Mike, Bad House, Melbourne
2005 Cavern Reprise, Slide Window, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne2005 Friends, Special Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2005 Friends, Seventh, Melbourne
2005 Mike, Dude Space, Melbourne2004 Fort, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne -
