Anthony Scullion RGI is one of the foremost painters of the figure in the UK. His work explores what it is like to be human: a soul, its body and often their place are viscerally felt in his work. Scullion’s paintings capture the individual, with an expression that is both outward and inward looking, and the universal, our shared humanity. They take us on an existential journey where we are both observer and observed.
Scullion’s work is also about paint and exploring how it can add to our understanding and fulfilment in life.
Drawing on the tradition of the chiaroscuro of Rembrandt, the spirituality of Giacometti, and the distortion of Bacon these painters are a springboard into a new dynamic within Anthony’s paintings. Paint merges with the body, the spaces in between infused with a weight that often becomes as important as the subjects themselves, in what could be described as a ‘soulscape.’
Megakles Rogakos, Historian and Critic of Art
Anthony Scullion was born in Glasgow (1967) and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. He now lives in the south of England.