I went to an event in the basement of Waterstone’s, Piccadilly in which Sean Scully read from a recently published volume of his ‘Collected Writings and Selected Interviews’, published by Hatje Cantz under the title Inner last year. He claimed not to have read a book until he was sixteen, which may, or may not, be true, but is an indication that he was not taught to be a wordsmith, but writes, as he paints, with atavistic energy and records what he thinks relentlessly. He described his method in the introduction to a lecture that he gave at Oxford in 1995: ‘The way I talk is, I don’t work from notes, so I tend to search for words. It probably isn’t a good deal for you, but it is more interesting for me. It’s like my work – I try to make it somewhat experimental’. The results are linguistically raw, pugnacious and experimental.
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Thank you. I’ve always liked his painting but have never seen anything he’s written – it sounds interesting. I will seek out INNER. Thanks.
A very fine printmaker too
Charles, I’ve enjoyed looking at your photograph in front of the large Scully, and your banded tie….
Have you ever seen the two short films Robert Gardner made of Scully? They are worth seeing.
Robert
http://www.der.org/films/sean-scully-at-work.html
Filmmaker Robert Gardner documents the artist’s process by filming painter, Sean Scully in his studio while he works and in the art gallery.
No, I will enjoy them. Charles