Hexenjagd, 2007, oil on linen, 152x127cm

Jane Neal in her review (Sean Dawson: Silent Glitch, Modern Painters, March 2006, p125) of Dawson’s solo show at Buchmann Galerie, Berlin in 2005 states that the title “……serves as both an apt description of Dawson’s practice – with its spliced, reflective surfaces – and a means of drawing together the artist’s twin passions: the avant-garde, electronic, Black Metal music that inspires so much of his work, and the nature of his chosen medium – oil paint.”

Fennesz, 2005, oil on canvas, 142x122cm

In the “new series of joyously vibrant paintings”, Neal goes on to say………”This ‘glitch’ underpins all the work in show, but is perhaps most apparent in Fennesz (all works 2005), the title of which refers to the musician whose tracks Dawson was listening to whilst making these paintings……….Given the reflective nature of the surfaces Dawson paints – they most closely resemble a hybrid of metal and glass – it seems somewhat curiously coincidental that the German word ‘glitschen’ describes a kind of slippery surface”

Hexenjagd, 2007, (detail)