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

July 2024

Feb-Jun
2024


Mar 2024


Jan-Feb 2024


Aug-Sep 2023
Upcoming large scale textile exhibition in Hastings, East Sussex, curated by Sophie Barnard.

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

Jun 2022


Dec 2022
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

Dec & Mar 2023


Nov 2023


Sep 2023


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