Sean Bw Parker

SOCIETY (portraits) available now on Amazon.

Sean Bw Parker (MA) is an artist, writer and musician specialising in painting, poetry, cultural theory and justice reform. 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 has received endorsements for his portraits Nick Cave, Ricky Gervais, Scott Adams and Kristin Hersh, and his tenth book SOCIETY (paintings) was published in 2025. He was born in Exeter in 1975 and currently lives on the West Sussex coast.

MA & BA (Hons) Fine Art at the University of Creative Arts, UK (1997-2003)

2025: The Secret Salon, Hackney, London - Janice Fiamengo
2025: Arrival Gallery, Kings Cross, London - The Execution of Holofernes
2025: Paper Cosmos, The Artery, Winchester - The Weather Report, Scott Adams, Kristin H
2025: Broken Britannia - Swindon Fringe Festival - Angel of Parliament Square, portraits
2025: Annual Open, Colonnade House, Worthing - Harold Pinter, The Burlington Hotel
2025: Nice To See You!, Gerald Moore Gallery, Eltham College, London - Ricky Gervais
2024: POP Art, Phoenix Centre, Brighton - Dartmoor Shadow, Art Club Triptych, two more
2024: No Comment, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London - Jeremy Deller
2024: Panopticon, University of Central Lancashire - solo show, 12+ paintings
2023: Kaleidoscope, Phoenix Centre, Brighton - Liminal Faces, Self-portrait, two more
2023: NewEver art show, Phoenix Centre, Brighton - Droit de Seigneur, two more
2019: Headingley Festival of Ideas, Leeds - WW1 football match
2001: Graduates Show, UCA, Farnham - Fear/Acquiescence short film loop
2000: Lonely Hearts Valentines Day, UCA, Farnham - paintings
1998: Foundation graduation show, UCA, Farnham - hanging canvases, paintings