Seb Rowlands (they/them) is a non-binary trans artist living and working in Brighton. They are studying for their Fine Art BA and were featured on Channel 4’s 2022 life drawing series ‘Drawers Off!’ Their art spans across digital media, installation, textiles, sculpture, painting, and printmaking, and is concerned with themes of gender identity. As autobiographical experience of being trans and as a critical response to a world which ‘others’ and erases gender non-conforming queerness. Seb investigates the nuances of the trans experience, including trans joy, through haptic and contrasting materials, and seeks to use art as a vehicle for social change.
Exhibitions
| Feb-Mar 2025 Oct 2024 Aug-Sep 2024 Jul 2024 Jun 2024 Feb-Jun 2024 Mar 2024 Jan-Feb 2024 Aug-Sep 2023 | Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2025 Group exhibition, London. Past, Present, Future Group exhibition, Art Academy London, curated by Sue Spall. Newhaven Open Call Exhibition Group exhibition, Newhaven. Group textile exhibition In Hastings, East Sussex, curated by Sophie Barnard for Textile Junction. The Anti-Misogyny Club online gallery. Online exhibition of feminist work. Let’s Transform Mermaid Court Co-curation and display of 2 pieces in exhibition of student work at Art Academy London. UNCENSORED Group exhibition of trans and non binary artists co-curated by ANDI and STOGGAF Queer Art Collective. Brixton, London. Queer Beach Group exhibition with Socially Engaged Art Salon, Brighton on queerness in the frontier space of the seaside. Fruit Loops Group exhibition on queer neurodiversity. Ledward Centre, Brighton. |
| May 2022 | Back of an envelope Online exhibition curated by Blue Monkey Network in conjunction with Edgeland Modern. |
| Oct-Dec 2021 | One Fine Day Group textile exhibition on handkerchiefs responding to COVID-19. Fazenda Cafe, London. |
| Jun 2021 | Print Open Exhibition Group exhibition at Art Academy London’s print studio. |
Commissions/Awards
| May 2024- present Jun 2022 Dec 2022 | Charleston Equality Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group member Drawers Off: The Big Naked Painting Challenge Contestant on Channel 4 life drawing competition series. Aired June 13-17th. The Ledward Centre, Brighton Commission for a public artwork on gender euphoria. |
Social practice
| Aug 2024 Dec & Mar 2023 Nov 2023 Sep 2023 | Neuro/queer community textile workshop Self-led art workshop for queer neurodiverse people at The Scrap Space, Shoreham. Connecting our threads & Dry felting Community workshops with Grow Your Life. The Queery, Brighton. Art as activism in fighting anti-trans narratives World Cafe discussion facilitation at Queersicht festival, Bern, Switzerland. Stitching queer neurodiversity Textile workshop on community connection and self-expression for queer neurodiverse people. |
Education
| 2021-2026 | BA Fine Art Art Academy London | |
| 2019-2020 | Certificate Fine Art Art Academy London | |
| 2008 | Fine Art A Level Caistor Grammar School |