Serj Sabet

SERJ SABET

British Visual Artist

Northern Echo Prize for Fine Art 2006

"In my experience, painting has always been a natural process like breathing - except on a longer time scale. The first part of your artists life is spent ‘inhaling’ all that is relevant to your work from the world around you in order to build up a repertoire of subjects, and learning various vocabularies which can best express them. After this phase the really interesting part starts; where you can begin to ‘exhale’ all that you have absorbed in your art, the emotions and experiences you have accumulated in the course of a life time. Now I feel I am in my second phase, I have the ability to draw from each period the most important aspects which can use in my current work, to perfect them. It’s a kind of Proustian ‘remembrance of things past’, where in memory, the event or subject is distilled and crystallised stripped of everything but its essentials. Both, fantasy and real life experiences, are part of my memory and influence me in my painting style and colour"

" My recent artworks are grounded by many questions I have asked myself in the last few years. How is the definition of the human changing? What constitutes life now. What differentiates plant an...

BA (Hons) Fine Art University of Sunderland 2006
Northern Echo Prize for Fine Art 2006

07.2023 Kunst im Labor, Art Fair, Zurich/Switzerland
06.2023 Solo Exhibition, Konstanz/Germany
05.2022 Mural Project, Baden Württemberg /Germany
10.2021 Painting workshop, Baden Baden/Germany
07.2021 No Elf, Solo Show, Konstanz/Germany
02.2020 Urban Colour , Havana/Cuba
09.2019 Artist Exchange, New York/USA
08.2019 Art Box Project, The Art Box. Gallery, Zurich/Switzerland
07.2019 Group Exhibition, KunstRaum, Oberteuringen/Germany
06.2019 "Reconnection" Solo Exhibition, Konstanz/Germany
01.2019 Art Workshop, PAN American School, San Jose/Costa Rica
10.2018 Artist in residence, Konstanz/ Germany
09.2018 Muhele Galerie Exhibition, Baden-Württemberg/ Germany
07.2018 Transition Solo Exhibition -Mrs Atha's, Leeds/UK
05.2018 Ink Portrait Project, Leeds/UK
09.2017 Mural Project-Privet Home, Leeds/UK
06.2017 Retro Furniture Solo show, Leeds/UK
11.2016 Limited Print Edition Solo Exhibition, Leeds/UK
06.2015 Art Workshop, Sommeri/Switzerland
12.2014 Limited Print Edition Solo Exhibtion, Berlin Germany
09.2012 Artist In Residance, Salem2Salem, Salem/Germany
06.2012 Symposium, NaturAtelier, Konstanz/Germany
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