Sean Bailey
Group Fragments
14 June - 19 July 2025

Sean Bailey’s paintings and sculptures are grounded in material exploration and intuitive mark-making. In Group Fragments, Bailey reworks monoprints with layers of paint and coarse pumice, building richly textured surfaces that obscure the underlying imagery. Drawing from a personal visual language of formal, organic, and symbolic motifs, his work bridges the industrial and the natural, the constructed and the elemental. Within the strict parameters of the painting surface, Bailey probes the possibilities of the pictorial space—embracing process, chance, and transformation. His practice reflects a deep engagement with themes of entropy, destruction, renewal, and the enduring tension between human intention and natural forces.

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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