Tapestry is the title of the just opened exhibition of new work by world renowned, unstoppable Sean Scully – who turned 80 this year – at the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin. It brings together four distinct bodies of work rooted in a deep engagement with the emotional potential of abstraction. There are recent pencil on paper drawings; hand woven tapestries in collaboration with Mourne Textiles with the drawn line translated into fibre, texture and weight; new large paintings from the Stack series and a selection of new oil on copper paintings. Modest in scale these are rich in colour and emotional depth. The show highlights how drawing functions as a foundational structure in Scully’s work and reveals how Scully’s practice is constructed line by line. Marks accumulate and interlock and are layered into larger forms. The show runs until January 24. Pictured here is Tappan Wall Yellow, 2025, an oil on copper at Kerlin. Another show by Scully – Blue – opens today at Thaddaeus Ropac Marais in Paris and runs until January 17.