Sean McDowell

Honours

Working across sculpture, painting and installation, my practice investigates a broad network of interests including display, psychology, archaeology and museology, as well as both personal and art historical narratives. The act of collecting lies at the heart of Retrieved: Re-imagined, where I have gathered together a series of found and bought objects as the point of departure. Driven by a deep engagement with industrial materials and fabrication processes, the work uses systems and curatorial strategies to reconsider and interpret new, multilayered pathways between forms. Through a series of actions and operations, such as stacking, casting and re-presenting, the materials are recontextualised in order to challenge their pre-existing framework and function, while enabling different perspectives and metaphorical associations to arise.