{"id":8865,"date":"2024-06-26T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T12:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/?p=8865"},"modified":"2024-06-27T12:24:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T12:24:43","slug":"sean-bw-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/2024\/06\/26\/sean-bw-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Bw Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8865\" class=\"elementor elementor-8865\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8a320a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f8a320a\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0b69d4d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0b69d4d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 22-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h4><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8868 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-727x1024.jpg 727w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-768x1081.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-600x845.jpg 600w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/>Can you tell us about your earliest artistic influences and what drew you to the world of fine art?<\/h4>\nMost of my earliest influences were from the world of alternative music, their presentation and album sleeve artwork &#8211; Gary Numan, David Bowie, Kate Bush, The Cure, Prince,\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">numerous others. Much of their work was seen as alternative at times in the 80\u2019s anyway! I was aware of fine art on the periphery for as long as I can remember, and wouldn\u2019t\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">differentiate between a Hogarth, a Picasso or a Warhol. I knew it was all somehow connected in spirit to the music I loved, and knew I wanted to explore that as far as I could.<\/span>\n<h4><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8869 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Metamorphosis-Phoenix-Colours-750x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Metamorphosis-Phoenix-Colours-750x1024.jpg 750w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Metamorphosis-Phoenix-Colours-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Metamorphosis-Phoenix-Colours-768x1049.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Metamorphosis-Phoenix-Colours-1125x1536.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Metamorphosis-Phoenix-Colours-1500x2048.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Metamorphosis-Phoenix-Colours-600x819.jpg 600w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Metamorphosis-Phoenix-Colours-scaled.jpg 1875w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>How did your time in Istanbul shape your artistic style and creative process?<\/h4>\nI was mainly working in music as musician and writer when I lived in Istanbul, but the main\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">shaping was in focussing more intently on the project, and managing groups of people into\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">studios, to gigs, photo shoots etc. I knew as many expat Americans, Antipodeans and North\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">Europeans as Turks, being a part of that community. Being there at the time of the Iraq and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">Afghanistan wars, there was a good deal of anti-war feeling about, regarding in Turkey and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">abroad, and at times it all got quite wild. I was in a noise bomb at a suburban cafe, and a\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">dog pack attack late at night walking back from the nightlife district, so it got quite hairy. It all\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">feeds into the work in the end.<\/span>\n<h4><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8870 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Andy-Malkinson-portrait-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Andy-Malkinson-portrait-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Andy-Malkinson-portrait-748x1024.jpg 748w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Andy-Malkinson-portrait-768x1052.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Andy-Malkinson-portrait-1121x1536.jpg 1121w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Andy-Malkinson-portrait-1495x2048.jpg 1495w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Andy-Malkinson-portrait-600x822.jpg 600w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Bw-Parker-Andy-Malkinson-portrait-scaled.jpg 1869w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/>Your work involves a mix of acrylic, ink, and watercolor. What drives your choice of\u00a0medium for each piece?<\/h4>\nI have a compulsion to make whatever I\u2019m about to work on either slightly or very different\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">from the last thing I did, particularly in painting. Acrylic is way stronger, and watercolour far\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">more unpredictable, in a good way. So if I want to go somewhere lighter and more free\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">feeling, I\u2019ll go to watercolour if the last thing had been some straight-edge, pop art style\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">acrylic piece. There are no rules though, and increasingly both mediums, plus oil pastel and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">good old ink, are involved. My constant challenge is in when to stop, when to consider a\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">piece \u2018finished\u2019. It\u2019s a conversation that continues!<\/span>\n<h4>Faces and bodies appear frequently in your paintings. What significance do these\u00a0elements hold for you?<\/h4>\nI enjoy and aspire to free abstraction, but my hand tends to want to root back to\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">recognisability in one way or another, and I often try to either rein that impulse in, or\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">integrate it into the whole. It\u2019s all about seeing where the last mark leads, then not being\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">afraid of going to the next place, and nothing being that precious. Don\u2019t throw anything away,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">avoid painting over canvasses, and build the collection that way. People are fascinated by\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">faces, that universal communicator, and all my favourite artists have manipulated that in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">some way. I guess I might have unconsciously embedded that.<\/span>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8871 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-David-Kate-2023-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-David-Kate-2023-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-David-Kate-2023-809x1024.jpg 809w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-David-Kate-2023-768x972.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-David-Kate-2023-1214x1536.jpg 1214w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-David-Kate-2023-1619x2048.jpg 1619w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-David-Kate-2023-600x759.jpg 600w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-David-Kate-2023-scaled.jpg 2023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/>What was it like to give a TEDx talk on &#8216;Stammering and Creativity&#8217;? How has this\u00a0experience influenced your work?<\/h4>\nBeing a person who stammers myself, in the past much more problematically than now, it\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">was very nerve-wracking. I was asked because I was known in writing circles, and was\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">honoured to be asked, as TED talks are such a big deal. I worked out that stammering and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">creativity were two subjects I knew something about, so combined them as something I\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">could be reasonably confident in longevity. My work in music and writing is probably much\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">more connected to the stammer, as I express myself there in ways I couldn\u2019t in speech, for\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">years. Ten years teaching helped that, then promotion for my 2023 book Compelling Speech &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">The Stammering Enigma, which is very much an autobiographical companion piece to the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">talk. Most of the good creative stuff comes from the right brain though, with the orderly left\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">brain trying to discipline it &#8211; so all my interests are maybe covered within that!<\/span>\n<h4>You&#8217;ve worked as a writer, musician, and artist. How do these different forms of\u00a0creativity influence each other in your work?<\/h4>\nThere has never been any pressure to specialise in one, except at art school, where the\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">lecturers wanted to regulate it all in an odd way. I couldn\u2019t choose between video art,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">abstract painting and cultural theory back then (1997-2003), so hopped between the three.\u00a0<\/span>\n\nWhen I moved to Istanbul after my masters I tried to conjoin all that \u2018finishing\u2019 training into\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">the music, and could never stop writing about the world around me, whether about music, art\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">or politics. Now I accept that I love all three mediums\/disciplines equally, thus try to give\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">each project equal intensity, and throw it all at the wall. What sticks, sticks.<\/span>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8872 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-Art-Studio-July-2023-1024x784.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-Art-Studio-July-2023-1024x784.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-Art-Studio-July-2023-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-Art-Studio-July-2023-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-Art-Studio-July-2023-1536x1176.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-Art-Studio-July-2023-2048x1568.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Sean-Parker-Art-Studio-July-2023-600x459.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>What advice would you give to aspiring artists who are just starting out?<\/h4>\nDon\u2019t self-edit, leave that to others or do it only when you must. Don\u2019t be afraid to paint\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">anything that comes to you, and don\u2019t be too precious about it, just get it out. Put it away or\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">get away from it when natural breaks occur, and come back to whatever it is with fresh eyes.\u00a0<\/span>\n\nOften sleep will provide solutions from the unconscious, and the creat ive mind solves things\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">in its own mysterious way. My one criteria for art criticism nowadays is: could it have been\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-transform: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">done with AI? If it couldn\u2019t, then you\u2019re on the right track.<\/span>\n\n<br><br>\n\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saatchiart.com\/seanbwparker \"><strong>Website<\/strong><\/a><\/center>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you tell us about your earliest artistic influences and what drew you to the world of fine art? Most of my earliest influences were from the world of alternative music, their presentation and album sleeve artwork &#8211; Gary Numan, David Bowie, Kate Bush, The Cure, Prince,\u00a0numerous others. 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