Brandon Seedhouse (b.1995) is an artist based in Brighton, East Sussex. He received a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2021 from the Kingston School of Art, and has since had work displayed in shows throughout the UK, America, and Asia. Notable institutions and galleries that have both shown and acquired his work are, Awagami Hall Japan, Phoenix Gallery Brighton, Pratt Institute New York, Stanley Picker Gallery, Woolwich Contemporary, Royal Academy of Art, Southbank Centre, & Tate Modern. Furthermore, his prints and paintings have also been featured on the BBC, Pressing Matters Magazine, World of Interiors, and Artsy.
With a practice rooted in painting and printmaking methodology, he draws upon influences from 1960’s counterculture, Zen Buddhist philosophy, Japanese aesthetics and the natural world, exploring themes on experience, sensory translations, memory and time. Examining relationships between environment, material, language, and gesture, the work is a response to his own personal encounters and experiences in the external world and the internal processing that occurs afterwards.
Once in the studio, these encounters and experiences are subjected to filtering, translation, and abstraction. He creates marks which undulate, stain or spread on canvas, which are then manipulated by pulling, pressing, tearing, and stitching. Through the processes of construction, deconstruction, layering, recycling and sampling, he is acknowledging how our experiences and memories are not always directly as that moment but rather an amalgamation of factual and false histories.
In Zen Buddhism, everything in existence is within a state of flux, evolving into something entirely new, or dissolving into nothingness. Element/fragmentations of these encounters and experiences are extracted and synthesised into images, objects and installations to capture, visualise, and advance on the existence of them.
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Education
Kingston School of Art, BA Fine Art, 2018/2021
Brighton Metropolitan College, Foundation Art & Design, 2016/2018
Exhibition History
2024, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Firework Factory, Arsenal, London
2024, Royal Academy Summer Show, Burlington House, London
2023, ARTWAVE Festival, Lewes, East Sussex
2023, AIMPE, The Hall of Awagami, Yoshinogawa City, Tokushima, Japan
2022, PRESS + PLAY, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2021, While We Were Gone, Displaced Studios, Digital Exhibition
2021, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Firework Factory, Arsenal, London
2021, AIMPE, The Hall of Awagami, Yoshinogawa City, Tokushima, Japan
2021, Perfect Blue, RuptureXIBIT, Hampton Wick
2021, 02 – Sensory, Not My Beautiful House, Kingston Upon Thames
2021, 01 – Blue, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston Upon Thames
2021, KSA Show, Digital Exhibition
2021, Drop A Pin, An Internet Screening Via Microsoft Teams
2021, Talking & Showing, Knights Park, Kingston Upon Thames
2021, Extra! Extra!, An Internet Showcase
2020, An Ode To Please Draw Freely, Avionics Foyer Space, Kingston Upon Thames
2020, Collage Works, Cass Art, Kingston Upon Thames
2020, I Need Noise, Basement 63, Kingston Upon Thames
2019, WE.ARE.CUT.UP, Pratt Institutes Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2019, BOOKish, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston Upon Thames
2018, ArtThruLondon, Southbank Centre, London
2018, The Grid, The Platform Gallery, Kingston Upon Thames
2018, FUSE, Gallery 40, Brighton
2018, Foundation Show, Brighton Metropolitan College, Brighton
2017, 20 x 20, ONCA Gallery, Brighton
Collections
2023, Awagami Collections
2021, Kingston School of Art
Awards
2022, Phoenix Gallery Studio Award
2021, The Stanley Picker Project Fund
2020, Remet Bronze Casting Award
Events
2023, Fisher Street Summer School, Netwerks, Lewes
2021, The Print Club, RHACC, Richmond
2021, Leap Then Look, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2021, Paper – Public – Present, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston Upon Thames
2021, Performing Bodies and the Ethics of Feedback, Knights Park, Kingston Upon Thames
2019, Leap Then Look, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2019, Leap then Look, Watts Gallery in Association with MAKE Festival, Guilford
2019, Inventory of Behaviours: Regulation, Resistance, Readiness, Tate Modern, London
2019, Don’t We All Play The Same, Tate Modern, London
2018, Ani/Animate, Kingston Museum & History Centre, Kingston Upon Thames
Publications
2021, Meditate on This, Pressing Matters – Issue 18
2021, Paper-Public-Present, Stanley Picker Gallery
Press
2021, Late Night Artist Talks, BBC Radio Sussex
