Flag
2024
Flag Series - installation view at Herbert Read Gallery - Canterbury - 2024
Flag is a performative installation - a series of seven art works - that deconstructs specific colonial iconography into seven reimagined fragments, challenging the British Empire’s symbolic and material foundations through a practicle unmaking & reconstituting of State imagery.
Arranged in the ratio of the Australian flag - depicting hybrid indigenous 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 ‘new world’ colonies as well as Oldham's cotton milling industry and related cotton trade.
Funded by Arts Council England, the work toured (2024/25) as part of Sebastian’s solo exhibition Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light.
Arranged in the ratio of the Australian flag - depicting hybrid indigenous 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 ‘new world’ colonies as well as Oldham's cotton milling industry and related cotton trade.
Funded by Arts Council England, the work toured (2024/25) as part of Sebastian’s solo exhibition Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light.
Engage - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico, reconstituted nylon flag, H:35cm x W:22cm ca. in stained oak frame.
Entanglements (Torresian/Carrion) - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico, reconstituted nylon flag, H:24 x W:13cm ca. in stained oak frame.
List of Works
(all dimensions listed relate to the unframed textile works)
i. Neither Nor (Ulysses/Adonis Blue) - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico reconstituted nylon flag, H:26cm x W:20cm ca. in stained oak frame.
ii. Entanglements (Torresian/Carrion) - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico, reconstituted nylon flag, H:24 x W:13cm ca. in stained oak frame.
iii. 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.
iv. Taut - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico, reconstituted nylon flag, tin eyelets, H:20 x W:35cm ca. in stained oak frame.
v. Grapple - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico, reconstituted nylon flag, H:39 x W:32cm ca. in stained oak frame.
vi. Engage - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico, reconstituted nylon flag, H:35cm x W:22cm ca. in stained oak frame.
vii. 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.
(all dimensions listed relate to the unframed textile works)
i. Neither Nor (Ulysses/Adonis Blue) - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico reconstituted nylon flag, H:26cm x W:20cm ca. in stained oak frame.
ii. Entanglements (Torresian/Carrion) - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico, reconstituted nylon flag, H:24 x W:13cm ca. in stained oak frame.
iii. 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.
iv. Taut - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico, reconstituted nylon flag, tin eyelets, H:20 x W:35cm ca. in stained oak frame.
v. Grapple - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico, reconstituted nylon flag, H:39 x W:32cm ca. in stained oak frame.
vi. Engage - 2024 - calico, cotton thread, giclée print on calico, reconstituted nylon flag, H:35cm x W:22cm ca. in stained oak frame.
vii. 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.
