In the Making: Spleen, Pallas Projects/Studios

February 2024

Spleen brings together the work of degree year students from IADT's BA in Art in the first of three exhibitions at Pallas Projects in February 2024. Spleen explores disparate phenomena of social connection and disconnection, highlighting both conflict and belonging. Through media that include video, photography, textiles, painting and sculpture, many of the works in Spleen grapple with difficult issues that include toxic relationships, suppressed sexualities, pressures to mask, and situations of ongoing political conflict. Yet these artists also embrace art's potential to articulate such experiences, and make a vital connection between the realms of the individual and the collective.

Sean Farrell's work concerns psychological effects brought about by use of colour, particularly how colours can create a state of calm in the viewer. The paintings are totally non-representational and are an exploration of painting's capacity to create harmony through colour. The triptych structure of Intarsia emphasises the splitting of colour forms as they cross the borders between panels. Mouth focuses on constructing depth without using traditional notions of perspective and vanishing points.

Featured Artworks

Intarsia, Acrylic on canvas, 140 x 200 cm, 2023.