10 Images
‘FLAG’ SERIES (2024)
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Detail - ‘Flag’ Series - Installation view as part of Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light at Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury. UK. 2024
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Detail - ‘Engage’ - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico, reconstituted nylon flag, H:35cm x W:22cm ca. in stained oak frame.
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Detail - New Ancients (Python/Adder) - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico, reconstituted nylon flag, H:25cm x W:45cm ca. in stained oak frame.
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Detail - ‘Entanglements (Torresian/Carrion)’ - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico, reconstituted nylon flag, H:24 x W:13cm ca. in stained oak frame.
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Detail - ‘The Seemingly Innocent Are Not Without Danger’ - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, silver gelatin photographic print, reconstituted nylon flag, H:18cm x W:26cm ca. in stained oak frame.
‘Flag’ - is a wall mounted installation comprised of seven textile-based works that challenge colonial histories and national identity. Employing calico, cotton thread, digital prints, familial photographs and reconstituted fragments of nylon, souvenir Australian flags - the works deconstruct nationalist iconography while engaging personal histories.
Arranged in the ratio of the Australian flag - depicting hybrid endemic fauna (Britain/Australia) composed in zoomorphic & homoerotic forms - these works reflect entangled histories of migration, resistance, occupation and exclusion. The juxtaposition of industrial nylon with raw calico & cotton evokes the far reaching colonial legacies of the British Empire, referencing both unceded ‘new world colonies’ (AUS) as well as Oldham's (UK) cotton milling industry and related cotton trade.
Funded by Arts Council England, the work toured (2024/25) to London, Canterbury, Oldham and Folkestone - as part of Sebastian’s solo exhibition Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light.
‘UNDOING DEE’S WORK’ SERIES (2024)
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Detail - ‘Undoing Dee’s Work’ Series - Installation view as part of Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light at Mill 2 Gallery, Studio 1853, Oldham. UK. 2025
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Detail - ‘Undoing Dee’s Work’ Series - Installation view as part of Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light at VSSL Studio, London. UK. 2025
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Detail - ‘The Seemingly Dangerous Are Not Without Innocence’ - 2024 - giclée print on calico, calico, reconstituted nylon flag, gold leaf, cotton thread and tin eyelet - H:162cm x W:62cm ca. in stained oak frame.
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Detail - ‘Entanglements (Torresian/Carrion/Entity II)’ - 2024 - giclée print on calico, calico, gold leaf, cotton thread - H:162cm x W:62cm ca. in stained oak frame.
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Detail - ‘Shed (Python/Adder/Entity III)’ - 2024 - giclée print on calico, calico, gold leaf, cotton thread - H:162cm x W:62cm ca. in stained oak frame.
Undoing Dee’s Work - is a performative installation. A series of seven works exhibited as an installation, that deconstructs the Commonwealth Star into seven diamond-shaped fragments, challenging the British Empire’s esoteric and material foundations, particularly the occult influence of the Elizabethan astronomer and advisor, John Dee (credited with coining the term ‘British Empire’).
Depicting endemic hybrid fauna from both England & Australia, set amidst deconstructed motifs of a late British Monarch, the series gestures towards transformation. Initially a complete star, the work is progressively dismantled across exhibitions, energetically unraveling colonial structures. Through cotton, calico, digital prints, and gold leaf, the piece merges material histories with magical practice, envisioning decolonial futures.
Funded by Arts Council England, the work toured (2024/25) to London, Canterbury, Oldham and Folkestone - as part of Sebastian’s solo exhibition Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light.
Both ‘Flag’ and ‘Undoing Dee’s Work’ were made possible with support from the following partners:
