Editing Sean Scully (section)

==Early life==
Sean Scully was born in [[Dublin]], Ireland, on 30 June 1945.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk:80/arts-entertainment/art/great-works/scully-sean-wall-of-light-desert-night-1999-744429.html|title=Scully, Sean: Wall of Light Desert Night (1999)|last=Hubbard|first=Sue|date=2007-08-17|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=2 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110116045544/http://www.independent.co.uk:80/arts-entertainment/art/great-works/scully-sean-wall-of-light-desert-night-1999-744429.html|archive-date=2011-01-16}}</ref> Four years later his family moved to London where they lived in a working-class part of south London, moving from lodging to lodging for a number of years.<ref name="bbcarts2016">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5qL5xhyzvBgjW1NrKLvTwkC/building-blocks-how-sean-scully-conquered-china|title=Building blocks: How Sean Scully conquered China|author=William Cook|date=7 April 2016|work=BBC Arts|access-date=8 April 2019|place=London}}</ref> By the age of 9, Scully knew he wanted to become an artist, and from the age of 15 until he was 17, Scully was apprenticed at a commercial printing shop in London as a typesetter, an experience that greatly influenced the art to come.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/making-his-mark-on-the-art-world-228195.html|title=Making his mark on the art world|date=2013-04-12|website=irishexaminer.com|access-date=2019-12-15}}</ref>

From the age of 17 until he turned 20, despite working full-time in various jobs including graphic design, and messenger, Scully attended evening classes at the [[Central School of Art and Design|Central School of Art]], focused on figurative painting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://seanscullystudio.com/biography/|title=Biography -Sean Scully|website=Sean Scully Studio|access-date=2019-12-17}}</ref> While working a stint as a plasterer's labourer on the Victoria Station Ballroom, Scully made daily visits to the Tate Milbank to visit [[Van Gogh's Chair]] (1888), which made an impression on him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.portovenereart.com/Artists/2768|title=Sean Scully|website=Porto Venere|access-date=2019-12-15}}</ref> In 1963, at the age of 18, Scully had a job loading trucks with flattened boxes at a cardboard factory.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/artist-sean-scully-it-s-about-stacking-putting-things-in-order-1.3642099|title=Artist Sean Scully: 'It's about stacking, putting things in order'|last=Dunne|first=Aidan|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=2019-12-15}}</ref> The idea of stacking central to much of his work came from this experience.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/92f5b220-ba8c-11e8-8dfd-2f1cbc7ee27c |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/92f5b220-ba8c-11e8-8dfd-2f1cbc7ee27c |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription|title=Sean Scully: 'England is a country that basically doesn't understand art'|last=Spence|first=Rachel|date=September 21, 2018|website=Financial Times|access-date=2019-12-15}}</ref>

=== Education ===
In September 1965 Sean Scully, age 20, began to study full-time at [[Croydon College of Art]], London, before moving on to [[Newcastle University]] in 1968.<ref name="ft2019">{{cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/e41df252-5528-11e9-91f9-b6515a54c5b1 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/e41df252-5528-11e9-91f9-b6515a54c5b1 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription|title=Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything, BBC2 — a portrait of abstract art's great showman|author=Sue Feay|date=5 April 2019|work=[[Financial Times]]|access-date=8 April 2019|place=London}}</ref> At Newcastle University, the University Theatre's production of [[Samuel Beckett]]’s ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'' made a lasting impact on him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncl.ac.uk/alumni/community/inspire/profiles/seanscully/|title=Sean Scully - Newcastle University|website=ncl.ac.uk|access-date=2019-12-15}}</ref> Scully was also influenced by a trip to [[Morocco]] in 1969, where he became fascinated by the multi-colored stripes locals wove into wool tents and robes.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dgdLQm3NPY8C&q=sean+scully&pg=PA77|title=Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life|last=Danto|first=Arthur Coleman|date=2007|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-14115-4}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.themodern.org/blog/Seeing-Stripes-Sean-Scullys-Catherine-Series/352|title=Seeing Stripes: Sean Scully's "Catherine" Series {{!}} Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth|website=themodern.org|access-date=2019-12-15}}</ref> Scully was awarded the [[Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship]] in 1972 to attend Harvard University.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/sean-scully|title=Sean Scully {{!}} Artists {{!}} Lisson Gallery|website=lissongallery.com|access-date=2019-12-15}}</ref> It was during this first stay in the US that Scully began to experiment with new techniques such as tape and spray paint.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zAo7CwAAQBAJ&q=sean+scully|title=Art Since 1989 (World of Art)|last=Grovier|first=Kelly|date=2015-12-07|publisher=Thames & Hudson|isbn=978-0-500-77294-2}}</ref>