Sean Meilak produces paintings, videos, photographs and installation works. These different formats stem from a particular art making process. Sean uses friends and acquaintances as models, posing them with the precision of an advertising director. He records this with photos and videos, involving a number of people with specialist skills.

 

After casting, directing and recording the shoot, Meilak enters the studio. From the photos and video he selects particular images for exhibition. He paints beautiful gouache pictures of the people as he has posed them. He frames selected photos and edits video footage into soap opera like DVDs. This furthers Sean's aim of creating a world of impossible beauty, community and lifestyle. The idea of young individuals who epitomise ‘leisure' is taken up in these works and shown to be impossibly seductive, but ultimately untrue.