Paul Seawright

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Paul Seawright's Valley, taken in Afghanistan in 2002. Courtesy Imperial War Museum, London

Paul Seawright is an artist born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1965.

He is best known for his early work from his home city of Belfast, particularly the series Sectarian Murder,1988. In this series he photographed the sites of sectarian murders around Belfast and paired the images with newspaper reports from the period. By removing reference to the victim's religion he depoliticised the violence, focusing on the extensive civilian losses in the Northern Irish troubles (more than two thirds of deaths between 1969 and the ceasefires of 1994 where civilian).

More recently he has made photographs in post-war Afghanistan (Hidden) and urban Africa (Invisible Cities). In 2002 he travelled to Afghanistan having been commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, London to respond to the attacks of Sept 11th and the subsequent war against the Taliban. His photographs of minefields and battle sites have been exhibited internationally and are in numerous public collections.

Paul Seawright is Professor of Photography and Dean of Newport School of Art Media & Design at the University of Wales, Newport, United Kingdom. He was awarded a personal chair by the University of Wales in 2001 and is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2005 the FotoMuseum Antwerp exhibited a major survey exhibition of his work with accompanying catalogue Field Notes.

1 Publications
2 Collections
3 Selected Exhibitions
4 External links
5 See also

[edit] Publications

Paul Seawright Field Notes, Fotomuseum Antwerp,2005
Landscape of War Centre d’art la Panera Spain, 2004
Gestes, Le Printemps de Septembre Toulouse, Actes Sud, 2003
Maintenant: Now, Vincent Levois, Le Mois de la Photo, 2003
Re-Imagining Ireland: Irish Art Today, University of Virginia Art Museum, J Hartz.
Further: Artsists from Wales at the Venice Bienalle, Merrell, 2003
Hidden, Paul Seawright, Imperial War museum/ Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2003
Profiles: Paul Seawright by Fintan O’Toole, BBC4, 30 minute documentary, 2003
Afghanistan:Ashes to dust BBC Radio Wales, BBC World Service 30 min documentary, 2002
The Gap Show - Critical Art from Great Britain Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund Germany
The Forest, Paul Seawright, Hasselblad Centre, Museum of Fine Art Gotenberg, Sweden, 2001
The Map, Paul Seawright, Catalogue/Public Art Project SDCC (22,000 distributed)
British Art Show 5, Catalogue, 2000
Paul Seawright, Monograph, Centre of Photography, Salamanca, Spain, 2000
Tokyo Photo Bienalle Catalogue, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 1999
Irish Art Now, From the Poetic to the Political, Merrell Holberton Publishers,1999
Constructing Identity, (The Missing)', Netherlands Foto Museum, Rotterdam 1997
Residue, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 1997
L'Imaginaire Irlandais', Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1996
Inside Information, Paul Seawright, Photographers Gallery, London, 1995
Nervous Landscapes, Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida, 1994
Documentary Dilemmas', The British Council, London, 1993
The Orange Order, Paul Seawright, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 1993
Shocks to the System, The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 19993
Valokuvataide Arkitaide, Helsinki, 1989
Death', Cambridge Darkroom Gallery / Kettles Yard, 1988

[edit] Collections

The Art Institute of Chicago.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Strasbourg.
Museum of Contemporary Art Liepzig.
Government Art Collection, London.
Contemporary Art society, London
The Imperial War Museum, London
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Waterford RTC
University of Cork/Glucksman
Simmons and Simmons, London
ACC Bank, Dublin
AIB Collection Dublin
Deutch Bank Frankfurt
Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum
Vereins-und Westbank, Hamburg
BMW, Munich
Collection Agnes b, Paris
The Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
The International Center of Photography, New York
The Arts Council of Ireland
The Arts Council of Great Britain
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland
The British Council
Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida
The Ulster Museum, Belfast
Royal Hospitals, Belfast
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Buhl Collection, New York
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris

[edit] Selected Exhibitions

Foto Museum Antwerp – Field Notes, 2005
Seoul Photo Triennale, The Seoul Museum of Art, Korea, 2005
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Invisible Cities, 2005
Blue Sky Portland - Hidden, 2005
Motor City – Mueseum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, 2005
The Wonderful Fund Collection - Le Musee de Marrakech, Morocco, 2005
Four Now – Lewis Gluksman Gallery, University of Cork, Ireland, 2005
Centre de la Photographique Ile de France, Paris,2004
Hidden Sies-Hoke Dusseldorf, 2004
National Centre of Photography Thessiloniki Greece (Photosynkria), 2004
Hidden, Rena Bransten San Francisco, 2004
Further, Glynn Vivian Swansea, 2004
Further, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 2004
Further, Wales at The 50th Venice Bienalle, 2003
Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2003
L’Espace Vox, Mois de la Photo Montreal, 2003
Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, 2003
Imperial War Museum, London, 2003
Chapter, Cardiff, 2003
Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, 2003
Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Gallery, 2003
MKG, Milton Keynes Gallery, 2003
Re-Imagining Ireland: Irish Art Today, University of Virginia Art Museum, 2003
Recherche: Galerie du Jour Agnes b, Paris, 2003
The Unblinking Eye, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2002
GewaltBilder - Gewalt in der Gegenwartskunst Museum Bellerive, Zurich, 2002
The Gap Show - Critical Art from Great Britain Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund Germany
Foundation Marangoni, Florence Italy, 2002
Inside Open - Napoli, Italy, 2002
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2001
Hasselblad Centre, Kunst Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2001
Angles Gallery, LA International Bienalle, 2001
Galerie du Jour, Agnes b Paris, 2001
Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to the Political Chicago Cultural Centre, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2001
New Directions, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, with Candida Hofer, Vik Muniz and Shirin Neshat, 2001
A470 Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales and Chapter, Cardiff, 2001
Werner Mantz Prize, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2001
Depicting Absence/Implying Presence San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art California, inc James Casebere, Sophie Calle, Candida Hofer, 2001
On the Margins, Barbara Krakow Gallery Boston, with Michael Ashkin& Jan Henle.
50 Years of Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2001
Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, 2000
Grieder Von Puttkamer, Berlin, 2000
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, 2000
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, 2000
Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, 2000
Photo.doc, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland, 2000
Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London, 2000
Centro de Fotografia, University of Salamanca, Spain, 2000
Auto Werke, Deichtorhallen - Hamburg. Group show with Gillian Wearing, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sharon Lockhart, Thomas Struth, 2000
British Art Show 5; (Travelling show) Venues include: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Southampton City Art Gallery ; Ffotogallery Cardiff, Ikon Birmingham, 2000
0044, Ormeau Baths Gallery , Belfast and Crawford, Municpal Art Gallery, Cork
Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to the Political, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, 2000/01
Foto Biennale, Netherlands Foto Institute, Rotterdam, 2000
Lautlose Gegenwart, Bielefelder Kunstverein, 2000
0044, PS1, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1999
Engaging Tradition, Hotbath Gallery, Bath, 1999
Surveying The Landscape, Lombard/Freid Fine Arts, New York, 1999
Fragments of Document & Memory, Tokyo Photo Bienalle, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1999
Contemporary Art, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, 1999
Concern for the Document, Vox, Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal, Canada, 1999
Silent Presence, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-BadenGermany
Contemporary Art, Arts Council of Ireland Collection, Limerick City Art Gallery
Under Exposed, Public Art Project, Stockholm.
Revealing Views; Images from Ireland, Royal Festival Hall, London, 1999
Declinations of Boundaries, Two Person Show, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, 1999
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, 1998
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, 1998
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, 1998
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, 1998
Galerie du Jour/Agnes b, Paris, 1998
Troubled, Photography and Video from Northern Ireland, The Light Factory, and Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1998
Europe in Decay, 3 Person at Light Hall, Kuopio and Helsinki Cathedral, 1998
Sightings - New Photographic Art, ICA, London, 1998
Le Printemps, Cahor, France - Two Person Exhibition with Martin Parr.
Photos Leurres, French Institute, Prague (Nan Goldin, Lewis Baltz, Sophie Ristelheuber), 1998
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 1997
Le Lieu, l'Orient, France, 1997
Françoise Knabe Gallery, Frankfurt,1997
Lie of the Land touring exhibition - Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris, Copenhagen, Salamanca, Athens.
Inside Out, Galerie du Jour/Agnes B. Paris - 3 Person with Richard Billingham & Tom Wood, 19996
L'Imaginaire Irlandais, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1996
Ceasefire, Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery 1995
Ffotogallery, Cardiff, 1996
Houston Fotofest, 1996
Paul Seawright, Inside Information, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1995
Paul Seawright, Inside InformationGallery of Photography, Dublin, 1995
Paul seawright, Sectarian Murder, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 1994
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 1993
The United Nations General Assembly Building, New York, 1993
Documentary Dilemmas, British Council touring Europe, South America, India, Ireland, 1993/4
Arts Council Gallery, Belfast,1993
The Old Museum, Belfast, 1993
The International Center of Photography, New York, 1992
Impressions Gallery, York, 1992
History of the Photographic Image, Rencontres Intls de la Photographie, Arles,1992
Recent Acquisitions, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1992
Through the Lens, Arts Council of Northern Ireland touring exhibition (USA)1992/3
The Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 1992
Paul Seawright, The Orange Order, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1991
Shocks to the System, Arts Council of Great Britain, Royal Festival Hall, London, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1991
Gallery Vapauden Aukion, Helsinki, Finland, 1989
Mikkelin Valokuvakeskus, Mikkeli, Finland, 1989