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Sean Durkin
Market Day and Bustling Street VI Lowry Style Painting, Industrial Cityscape Art

2022

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Bustling Street VI and Market Day are an original diptych of paintings by Sean Durkin. The scenes depict the high streets of an industrial town with people going about their usual lives. As with all of Sean's works this painting includes his trade mark characters of the robber and policeman. Market Day is sold framed, Bustling Street VI is sold unframed, we can however organise for this to be framed as well. Discover original Sean Durkin paintings online with Wychwood Art and in their Oxfordshire Art Gallery. Full of irony and narrative, Sean Durkin’s work is simultaneously playful and powerful. Now an acclaimed artist with a loyal following, Sean’s path to becoming an artist is quite the tale, further adding to the impact of his work. In 1972, his father, John Durkin, stole and held ransom a Lowry painting of Middlesbrough Town Hall and Saint Hilda’s Church from the local art gallery. In exchange for the painting’s safe return, he demanded that the Lord Mayor raffle his underpants for charity and that the gallery be installed with a better alarm system as well as be opened on Sundays “to allow the working man to get some culture”. Only a boy of eight at the time, Sean recalls coming downstairs the following morning to find the stolen painting on the mantelpiece. He was fascinated by the atmosphere of the painting and the ‘matchstick’ people as they scurried around the scene. He did not realise it at the time, but the painting would have a profound effect on his life, and ultimately inspire him to become an artist himself. Today, Sean’s atmospheric work pays tribute to the memory of that stolen painting. He enjoys creating rough, textured surfaces to suit the grittiness and mood of his paintings. His paintings are furthermore full of narrative, prompting the viewer to wonder about the lives of the ‘matchstick’ people within. Sean himself adds to this narrative by including a burglar and a policeman in every painting as a reminder of his father’s sensational stunt. Sean's paintings continue to captivate audiences across the country, bringing him great success as an artist. In a rather ironic twist of fate, his work now hangs on public display in the prestigious Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) next to the very same L.S. Lowry painting his father once stole. Sean holds regular exhibitions in his native north east, and has been featured on BBC TV, as well as numerous radio stations and newspapers. Bustling Street VI by Sean Durkin [2021] Oil paint on board Image size: H:41 cm x W:30.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:41 cm x W:30.5 cm x D:0.2cm Sold Unframed Market Day by Sean Durkin [2022] Oil on Board Image size: H:38 cm x W:29 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:38 cm x W:29 cm x D:1cm Frame Size: H:56 cm x W:45 cm x D:4cm Sold Framed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
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    2022
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    Height: 16.15 in (41 cm)Width: 24.02 in (61 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Deddington, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU632312047322

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