Sean Madden
Degree: MA Fine Art
Graduation Year: 2005
New Blood Art Commentary
Describing his artistic approach as 3-D collage, the multidisciplinary artist Sean Madden explores and creates elemental hybrids that culminate in powerful sculptural forms. Constructing small-scale sculptures, Madden counteracts their modest size with signals of power, vigour and strength, taking heed from cartoonish figurines, aerodynamic principles and historical symbols of fortitude and tenacity.
Exploring both the medium as much as the subject matter, Madden presents his bronze-cast statuettes often in a rough, textured finish, implying an Expressionist emphasis of the material and surface as seminal to the oft-imposing forms. His titles range from Epic to Supernature.
Artist Statement
The themes and ideas for my work are in every day existence, the hum drum to the profundity of nature. I'm influenced by anything I find artistically adaptable. I find the justification and explanation of most visual abstract work unnecessary, the work being its own explanation.