Artist Profile

SEAN MEILAK

You’re equally likely to find Sean Meilak’s work in both design exhibitions and art galleries, as one of his creative aims is to question the various hierarchies between art and design. Artist Profile speaks to Meilak about how he works, his sources of inspiration and how history, architecture and archaeology are never far from his mind’s eye.

I now move back and forth between the sculptural works and the two-dimensional works.

AS A CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, YOU WORK ACROSS A variety of forms and media including painting, sculpture, video, installation and drawing. What does a typical day in the studio look like to you?

In the studio I might be working on a

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