Sean Bw Parker

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 (Stammering and Creativity, 2013), and had paintings displayed at London’s South Bank Centre, Chelsea Art Society, Bath Fringe and a number of other exhibitions. He founded and ran the Seafish arts and music venue on the West Sussex coast in 2016, and won 14 Koestler Arts Awards between 2019 and 2026, including two Platinum awards for play The Wolfstadt-Wire in 2020 and book Compelling Speech - The Stammering Enigma in 2023. He has contributed to Time Out Istanbul, Louder Than War, God Is In The TV, Inside Time, Yeni Safak and many more publications, was art and content editor of Tor Times from 2019 to 2021, and and has been editor of False Allegations Watch since 2022. He has received endorsements from Nick Cave, Ricky Gervais, Scott Adams, Kristin Hersh and Jeremy Deller for his paintings, had songs played on BBC Radio, and his 11th book Panopticon (poetry) was published throu...

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

2026: Chelsea Art Society Annual Open, Old Town Hall, Chelsea, London
2026: Peirson & Peirson Contemporary Art Prize, Plymouth
2026: Flying Circus, Brighton Art Fair (Brighton Fringe)
2026: The Motive of the Puppeteer, Bath Fringe
2026: Utility, The Etch Collective, New Cross, London
2026: Open Houses, The Brighton Box
2026: Creativity Continues, Colonnade House, Worthing
2026: Arrival Gallery, Brighton
2025: Borderlines, ArtFlow, The Fitzrovia Gallery
2025: Christmas Show, Glena Gallery, London
2025: The Secret Salon, Hackney, London
2025: Arrival Gallery, Kings Cross, London
2025: Paper Cosmos, The Artery, Winchester
2025: Broken Britannia - Swindon Fringe Festival
2025: Annual Open, Colonnade House, Worthing
2025: Nice To See You! Open Exhibition, Gerald Moore Gallery, Eltham College, London
2024: POP Art, Phoenix Centre, Brighton
2024: No Comment exhibition, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London
2024: Panopticon, University of Central Lancashire - solo exhibition
2023: Kaleidoscope, Phoenix Centre, Brighton
2023: NewEver art show, Phoenix Centre, Brighton
2019: Headingley Festival of Ideas, Leeds
2001: Graduates Show, UCA, Farnham - Fear/Acquiescence short film loop
2000: Lonely Hearts Valentines Day, UCA, Farn...