About

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

Oct 2024


Aug-Sep 2024

Jul 2024


Jun 2024


Feb-Jun
2024

Mar 2024



Jan-Feb 2024


Aug-Sep 2023
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 2021One Fine Day
Group textile exhibition on handkerchiefs responding to COVID-19. Fazenda Cafe, London.
Jun 2021Print 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

2021-2026BA Fine Art
Art Academy London
2019-2020 Certificate Fine Art
Art Academy London
2008Fine Art A Level
Caistor Grammar School