sean alexander
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None of this was supposed to happen.

After an inconclusive spell at Bradford Art College in the late eighties, I became a paste-up artist and designer in Yorkshire, designing posters for bands at Bradford's Queen's Hall along the way. Then I moved to London and became an art director at an advertising agency. Proper jobs. They paid the bills.

Then, in the late nineties, I left advertising and somehow found my way into Great Western Studios — a fairly ramshackle former railway building in Westbourne Park filled with artists, designers, photographers, makers and people doing things that didn't quite have a name yet. It felt suspiciously like being back at art college, only this time nobody was marking the work.

So I started making things again.

Things got busy. Paul Weller asked me to illustrate an album cover in 2002. Around the same time I designed and launched the streetwear brand Filth, began exhibiting with Apart Gallery in London, Los Angeles and Tokyo, and later found myself selling alongside Banksy, D*Face and Faile at Bonhams' Urban Art auctions.

I've carried on making work ever since, alongside a life in design, moving from London to Bath along the way.

The work still wanders about a bit — painting, collage, photography, print, found objects, digital work and pretty much anything else I can lay my hands on. The subjects change too.

More than twenty years later, I'm still making things I didn't know I'd be making. That's probably the point.

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sean@seanalexander.tv

18 St Saviour’s Rd
Bath, BA1 6RN
United Kingdom

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exhibitions

  • Ma Cuisine, Residency, Bath, 2022-25
  • Gordon Ramsay, UK, 2021-24
  • Hessinks, Urban Art Auction, 2021
  • The Guild Hub, Bath, 2020-24
  • Apart Winter Show, London, 2014
  • Apart Summer Show, London, 2014
  • Bonhams Urban Art, London, 2013
  • Apart Winter Show, London, 2012
  • The Apartment, London, 2012
  • Bonhams Urban Art, London, 2012
  • Apart Summer Show, London, 2011
  • Bonhams Urban Art, London, 2011
  • 10 Years Apart, London, 2010
  • Solo Show, Rebecca Hossacks, 2010
  • LA Art Show, Los Angeles, 2010
  • London Art Fair, London, 2010
  • Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam, 2009
  • Art London, London, 2009
  • 20/21 British Art Fair, London, 2009
  • Affordable Art Fair, Paris, 2009
  • Affordable Art Fair, New York, 2009
  • Affordable Art Fair, London, 2009
  • Nokia Yamake Art Project, London, 2008
  • Love Will Bring Us Apart Again, Las Vegas, 2008
  • Love Will Bring Us Apart Again, London, 2008
  • London Calling, Los Angeles, 2008
  • Love Will Bring Us Apart Again, LA, 2008
  • Apart, London 2001-08, Exhibitor
  • Cosh, London 2006-08, Exhibitor
  • Bals helmet show, Tokyo 2007
  • Marambat Art Auction, Toulouse 2007
  • Open Studios, London, 2007
  • ‘That’s All Folks’, Cosh, London, 2007
  • Cosh London, Winner ‘Iconic’ Show, 2006
  • 'Inspired', Skateboard show, London 2005
  • Riverside Quarter Group Show, London, 2005
  • Lowe Group, Knightsbridge, London, 2003
  • Open Studios, London, 2002
  • Le Salon Group Show, London, 2001
  • 'Animal Magic', Clapham, 2000
  • Open Studios, London 2000

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