Sean McDowell

Bizarre Love Triangle (2018), Mixed Media, Installation View, 2018 VCA Graduate Exhibition, Images by Nick James Archer

Sean McDowell’s installation Bizarre Love Triangle encompasses a range of mediums including sculpture, installation and painting. Driven by an exploration of

materiality and process, McDowell draws on formulated systems to construct carefully considered sculptures and paintings. He is currently fascinated by various

industrial appliances inhabiting the urban environment, which he re-utilises in a way that challenges their pre-existing framework and function. Through the formation

of networks, he attempts to re-interpret these peculiar structures, in order to shift the viewers perceptions and associations to them. McDowell often re-contextualises

and anthropomorphises the manufactured objects by juxtaposing distinct forms and surfaces, thus locating them in a place between representation and abstraction.

McDowell also creates gestural paintings, whereby he works in an intuitive, yet calculated manner to create works that deal with complex, explosive patterns. Formally,

his works are concerned with connecting composition, colour, texture and scale to ideas surrounding display.

Exhibition Dates: 20 - 25 November, 2018

Opening Event: 19 November, 6-8pm

School of Art, The Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank, Victoria

The Illusion of a Disorderly Gesture l (2018) Ink, acrylic, oil and lacquer on canvas, aluminium, 230cm x 180cm.

System of the Past ll (2018), Steel, copper, 187cm x 60cm x 50cm.