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