Christopher Hitchens Painting

Sean Bw Parker (MA) is an artist, writer and musician specialising in painting, poetry, cultural theory and the media-justice system. After gaining a Masters degree in Fine Art from the University for the Creative Arts in 2003 he lived and worked in Istanbul for ten years, has published a number of books and albums, performed at or curated festivals, given a TED talk, and had paintings displayed at London’s South Bank Centre and New York's Times Square. He won Platinum Koestler Arts awards for play The Wolfstadt-Wire in 2020 and book Compelling Speech - The Stammering Enigma in 2023. He has received endorsements from Nick Cave, Ricky Gervais, Scott Adams, Alain de Botton and Kristin Hersh, and his 11th book Panopticon (poetry) was published through Close To The Bone Publishing in 2025. He was born in Exeter in 1975 and currently lives on the West Sussex coast.