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“I find it useful to consider my visual arts practice as a constellation of mirrors; reflecting aspects of the body, times, spaces & relationships I (have) inhabit(ed) - or - as world-making experiments, manifested through intuitive, erotic and esoteric methodologies, at the interstices of creation and destruction.”
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“I find it useful to consider my visual arts practice as a constellation of mirrors; reflecting aspects of the body, times, spaces & relationships I (have) inhabit(ed) - or - as world-making experiments, manifested through intuitive, erotic and esoteric methodologies, at the interstices of creation and destruction.”
- B.Sebastian
‘Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light’ at Herbert Read Gallery - Canterbury. Images courtesy of Herbert Read Gallery and the artist - 2024
For two decades, Sebastian’s visual art practice has been concerned with the ineffible qualities of being human, interpreted through their position as a queer, neurodivergent, British-Settler-Australian. Themes of desire, grief, longing, love, transition & transformation run thick through a visual language comprised of adornment, ceremony, assemblage, patchwork and the making-special of things.
‘Benjamin Sebastian & Alicia Radage’ at VSSL Studio - London. Image courtesy of Marco Berardi, VSSL Studio & the artists - 2023
Quiet currents of occult workings permiate the majority of Sebastian’s objects and actions, most notably; the creation and destruction of symbols through both sigil craft and iconoclastic gestures.
‘3 Reflections²’ at the Institute of Contemporary Art - London. Images courtesy of Zack Mennell, FUTURERITUAL & the artist - 2021
Below is a crafted selection of Sebastian’s solo & group exhibition history, which can be navigated by clicking individual links or through endless scroll.
INDEX:
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2019
2018
2017
• GROUP - A Moveable Feast - Hypha HQ (UK)
• SOLO - Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light - Mill 2 Gallery, Studio 1853 (UK)
• SOLO - Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light - VSSL (UK)
2024
• SOLO - Phoenix (2024) - CT20 (UK)
• SOLO - Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light - CT20 (UK)
• SOLO - Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light - Herbt Read Gallery (UK)
2023
• GROUP - Pretty Doomed (UK)
• GROUP - FACET (UK)
• GROUP - Benjamin Sebastian & Alicia Radage (UK)
• SOLO - Calling Back The Light (Holding The Shadow) (UK)
2022
• GROUP - F U T U R E R I T U A L (UK)
2021
• SOLO - Working With Entities//Setting Intent (UK)
• GROUP - PSX: A Decade of Performance Art in the U.K. (UK)
2019
• GROUP - New Queers On The Block (UK)
• GROUP - Wienwoche: Purrr!_Femme!-ance! (AT)
• Folkestone Pride (UK)
• GROUP - NSA: A Queer Salon (UK)
• GROUP - FAT FEMME FURIOUS in Aktion (DE)
• GROUP - CREAURE Live Art (LT)
• GROUP - PornFilmFestivalVienna (AT)
2018
• GROUP - Body and Freedom Festival (CH)
• GROUP - Porn Film Festival Berlin (DE)
• SOLO - Becoming Constellation (UK)
• GROUP - Anhelo (UK)
2017
• SOLO - Becoming Constellation (UK)
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2010
2008
• GROUP - PS: The Future Is Now (UK)
• SOLO - Wolf (CZ)
• GROUP - Steakhouse Live Festival (UK)
• GROUP - Festival of Naked Forms (CZ)
• GROUP - Spider Festival (SI)
2015
• GROUP - Departing AKTION (UK)
• SOLO - Crossing (UK)
• GROUP - International Performance Art Evening II (DE)
• GROUP - LIEBE Performance Opera (DE)
2014
• GROUP - Venice International Performance Art Week (IT)
• SOLO - Phoenix (IT)
• GROUP - FWD Festival (Noseland Mikronation Galerie)
2013
• SOLO - My Pornographic Heart (UK)
• GROUP - Totem and Taboo (UK)
• SOLO - Phoenix (UK)
2012
• GROUP - IWY 09: QUEER HOME ECONOMICS (UK)
• GROUP - CREATURE Live Art (LT)
• SOLO - Ode To 26 (UK)
• GROUP - Aliens In New York (USA)
2010
• GROUP - Tension / Intervention / Restraint (UK)
2008
• GROUP - University of Lincoln Fine Art Degree Show (UK)
• GROUP - National Review of Live Art (UK, documentation coming soon)