SEAN CROWLEY
VICARIOUS GROUND
AUGUST 28 - SEPTEMBER 21, 2025
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Vicarious Ground is a journey through the ethereal landscape of the imagination.
The new body of work invites the viewer into a delicate interplay of reality and fiction questioning how the perceptions of a place are often shaped by memory and emotion more than geography. To recognise a landscape we must accept that it is not merely seen, but dreamt and then inhabited by the imagination.
Crowley, through his own observant gaze and exuberant draftsmanship captures the essence of feeling tied to a specific domestic object or familiar civil and urban structures which can illustrate how the emotion triggers our understanding of the surroundings we occupy. The underlining nostalgia or longing for places that could have potentially once existed or never existed at all.
Sean Crowley in his studio, Leichhardt, Sydney, 2025
Sean Crowley
The Swing
Oil on canvas
198 x 168 cm
2024
... Embodying the freedom and curiosity for civil urban design and architecture inspired by Australian suburbia, Sean Crowley has drafted in oil stick an exuberant new body of work for Vicarious Ground. A title perfectly suited to his subjects which favours the playfulness of youth and joy of domesticity.
Please contact the gallery to receive the catalogue and pricing by email.
Sean Crowley
Treehouse
Oil on canvas
198 x 168 cm
2024
Crowley has held two solo exhibitions, the acclaimed debut at Robin Gibson Gallery Sydney (2023) following on with his second solo exhibition at Egg and Dart Gallery Wollongong and his debut presentation at Sydney Contemporary with Egg and Dart (2024).
Finalist in the Waverley Art Prize (2022) and the Mosman Art Prize (2022 & 2025). Collections include Macquarie Group Collection Sydney and various Private Collections around Australia. Crowley graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from National Art School, Sydney (2021).
Sean Crowley
Shopfront
Oil on Jute
198 x 168 cm
2025
Blue Tree
Chalk pastel on Saunders Waterford hot pressed water paper
62 x 100 cm (paper without frame)
2025
CRISTINA SUN
AUTOFICTIONS
OCTOBER 2-25, 2025
Christina Sun
Red Eurydice
Oil on board
120 x 90 cm
2025
Inspired by architecture and mythology, Edward Hopper and an acute fascination with cinema, Christina Sun (b. 1999) is a Sydney based painter who renders imaginary scenes which magnify the ambience of spatial moments.
For Sun, the frame is a portal to make sense of the world. The framing function which frequently appears in the oil paintings address the duality of sensual and intellectual information. Interwoven figurative to elements of abstraction her subjects linger on the commonplace, the prolonged observations of the quotidian life or a curiosity to comprehend how an image passes through embodied experiences shaped by cultural, historical and impersonal implications.
Some oil paintings can be characterised by the tension between proximity and distance they seemingly blend autobiographical experiences and fiction to depict people in multilayered settings: isolated figures within surreal, familiar and mundane landscapes which are emblematic to contemporary life and cultural phenomena.
Catalogue will be available from September 21.
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