"In memory of Seany Boy" by Sean Hart

“I must have worked inside the building for five or six days – a dozen works in all. This one is a failed test. The idea was to paint an epitaph for a fictitious character who represented my youth, and to make it look as though a number of different people had come by and left short messages about him. But it didn’t come out right, because the different scripts and drawings aren’t different enough. I’d have preferred it if this work wasn’t there anymore. It’s a bit like a sketch, created with the ultimate intention of doing something else – and now that it’s popped up on this site, this failed test has to stand as the end result. (Laughs)”

Artist biography:
Born in France in 1981, Sean Hart has been voluntarily homeless for the past 3 years: a street artist who travels and works without authorisation – but also without concealing his name or his face – in towns throughout the world. He sees his work as a set of poetic messages encompassing various different series of work and covering a wide range of different media: painting, photography, video, sculpture, installation, performance art and short films. Each work represents fragmented pages of an intimate diary – a travel journal formulated as a cocktail of challenging poetic images.