Dance has been the primary source and motivation for my visual artworks in the last few years. I am interested in movement, and especially in how the body enacts movement as precursor and accomplice to made entities such as drawings, paintings and other forms of visual art. My artistic research has included investigations into the painting practices of Jackson Pollock, Brice Marden, and Jonathan Lasker, among others. Visual rhythms and repeating shapes and patterns underscore my work, which in turn evolves, like dance, along both structured and more intuitive paths
Born and raised in the rural part of north-west mayo, the son of an Accountant Technician and a Farmer turned Irish Air Corp Technician who became Operator of motor vehicles, Sean Carolan broke through his stationary, agricultural upbringing to become an artist who immerses himself in photography, painting and drawing.
