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Paul Seawright was born in 1965 in Belfast. He is a photographer who has drawn heavily on his Northern Irish background to produce searching photographic investigations of aspects of its fraught political terrain, as in his 'Orange Order' and 'Police Force' series from the early 1990s. In his recent work Seawright has moved away from an overtly Irish context, focusing on what he has termed a 'generic malevolent landscape' represented by the uninhabited spaces at the edge of cities and forests throughout Europe. Seawright has exhibited in many venues throughout Europe and North and South America including the Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. His solo exhibitions include shows at the Photographers' Gallery, London, and the International Center of Photography, New York. He was included in the Tokyo Photo Biennial, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 1999. Awards include the prestigious Ville de Paris Artist Award in 1999 and the Irish Museum of Modern Art/Glen Dimplex Prize in 1997. He is represented in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Art Institute of Chicago and the International Center of Photography, New York among others. |
