DrSean Loughrey

My research interests are diverse and interdisciplinary. As mentioned, my practice includes photography, video, painting, drawing and sound-based projects.

In 2025 I took part in an Artist in Residence NES, Skagaströnd, Iceland. This residency forms the basis of my current studio practice, in which I am working on projects involving photography, collage and video. This work examines intersections between technology, image-making and materiality. The work created merges digital and analogue processes with material processes such as painting to question how representation shapes perception and history.

Recent studio-based work focuses on photography as an experimental medium with the ability to unite, or collaborate with other mediums, challenging ideas regarding photography as just a representational tool. While mediums are forced to collide, so too are the genres of figurative and non-figurative art. When working figuratively the subject matter is continually based around the land on which I reside and the weather that constitutes that given location. In a sense the weather informs both formal and conceptual explorations.

I have also created a Visual Essay, titled "I’ve Forgotten What I Was Going to Say/This is Not a Brick https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2024.2428734, which was published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art. I have also delivered a paper to a symposium “Bernhard Sachs: After History” at Linden New Art, later published in Art + Australia. I am also working with two Canadian based artists/academics developing a sound-based Installation project involving the use and analysis of "static."