Approved: 04.12.2017

Martin Seeds

Artist, Curator, Event organiser, Lecturer / academic

Approved: 04.12.2017

Martin Seeds' artistic practice draws from his experience of growing up in Northern Ireland.  His work explores the conflicting experiences of culture, history and identity.

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      Artist Statement

      Martin Seeds' artistic practice draws from his experience of growing up in Northern Ireland.  His work explores the conflicting experiences of culture, history and identity.

      He has exhibited work in international group shows including Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris, Photo London, Peckham 24 and The Photographers Gallery London.

      In 2019 Seeds was nominated for the 2020 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for his solo exhibition Violence Religion Injustice Death at Seen Fifteen gallery London. In 2018 he was awarded the Danny Wilson Memorial Award – Professionals choice for the best solo exhibition at Brighton Photo Fringe. In 2017 he was awarded a Magnum Graduate award for the body of work titled Assembly.

      www.martinseeds.com

      CV & Education

      Exhibitions
      2023 Solo Exhibition at the Library Project, PhotoIreland, Dublin, Ireland, Opening Dec tbc
      2023 Romper Room, Brighton Centre for Contemporary Art, Dorset Place Gallery, Feb 
      2022 Niagara Falls Projects: Return, Gallery Dodo, Phoenix Art Space, Nov 12 - Jan 13
      2022 Telling Pictures, University of Brighton Gallery, Oct 3-15
      2022 In Our Image: The Politics of Place, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland, June 25,
      2022 Photo Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, July 7
      2022 No Place is an Island, Photo 50 at London Art Fair, April 21
      2021 No Country For Young Men, solo exhibition,  Seen Fifteen, London, Nov 4-21

      2020 Photo London with Seen Fifteen Oct 7-18
      2020 Hurry Up Please Its Time, Seen Fifteen, Sept 9-26
      2020 With Monochrome Eyes, Borough Road Gallery, London
      2019 - Violence Religion Injustice Death, Seen Fifteen, London
      2019 - Peckham 24, Copland Park, Peckham, London
      2019 - The BREXIT Shop, Format Festival. Derby, UK
      2018 - Masks, Sluice HQ, London UK
      2018 - New Works, Niagara Falls Projects, Brighton, UK
      2017 - Assembly, Irish Culture Centre with Seen Fifteen, Paris, France
      2016 - Assembly, The Regency Town House Brighton, UK
      2016 - Assembly,  University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton, UK
      2015 - Alternative Ulster,  PhotoMonth London Photo Festival, London UK
      2015 - Alternative Ulster,  Cork Photo Festival, Ireland.
      2014 - Selected works: Alternative Ulster / I have troubles[...],  Vantage Point, Brighton, UK
      2014 - 5 studies of Tim, Create Gallery, Brighton, UK
      2014 - Residency exhibition,  Woodstock, Ulster Country, New York, USA
      2014 - Birds Over Stormont publication,  Tokyo Institute of Photography, Japan
      2012 - Fresh Faced & Wild Eyed, The Photographers Gallery, London UK

      Curated Projects at Niagara Falls Projects

      2020 The Streets Where Foxes Hide, Reinis LIsmanis at Brighton CCA Dorset Place
      2019 Evil Rises, Niagara Falls, group show Ashley Beachey, Sean Birnie, Richard Jed Butler, Bob Visser.
      2019 - New Alchemy,  Jure Kastelic  
      2019 - Not the Dead Spit, Sophie Barber & Georgia Hayes  
      2018 - New Works, Martin Seeds
      2018 - Ideal-I, Alexander Glass & James William Murray
      2018 - Celestial Body, Spiritual Earth Joseph Long 
      2018 - Is this wet p*$$¥ remix no get enemy, nothing like this love that I’m feeling, Irvin Pascal 
      2017 - E2 - E4, Jacob Clayton
      2017 - She, Melissa Campbell

      Selections, Awards, Nominations
      2019 - Long listed for the 2020 Deutsche Börse  Photography Prize
      2018 - Danny Wilson Memorial Award – Professionals Choice
      2017 - Magnum Graduate Award Winner
      2015 - Nominated for the Magnum Graduate Photography Award
      2014 - Short-listed for the Brighton Photo Fringe Danny Wilson Memorial Award
      2014 - Selected for an artist residency in New York at AIR Byrdcliffe
      2011  - Wallpaper* 2011 Graduate Directory
      2011  - Tom Buckeridge Photography Prize
       

      Text / Features / Interviews
      Art Licks Issue 25: Monochrome
      British Journal of Photography online: Featured in the best of Photo London & Beyond
      British Journal of Photography, June 2019:  Promotion of my solo show at Seen Fifteen and Peckham 24
      Yet Magazine issue 10 
      PhotoWorks showcase #2
      LensCulture highlight
      Featured in '9213' celebrating 21 years of photography at the University of Brighton
      LAW magazine. Issue 2
      FILE magazine CITYLIKEYOU feature
      Finds. Preston is my Paris
      LenScratch
      PHOTO+ magazine, vol.16. 
      Photoworks showcase #1
      Self Publish Be Happy - book to come
      Photoworks review of ‘I have troubles[…]’
      The Independent Photobook Blog,
      Playground Magazine Issue 1.
      Jotta review

      Publications
      No Country For Young Men, Self Published, 2020
      Birds Over Stormont, Self Published, 2013
      Where Will You Spend Eternity. Vol.1, Self-Published, June 2011