Sean Bw Parker
@seanbwparker5000.bsky.social
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Artist-writer-musician Collex Art site https://seanbwparker.collexart.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=51458&Akey=H2Z6Y64C&ajx=1
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My paintings This Is Not A Vape Pen and The Execution of Holofernes have been included in the Burn It Down issue of Trashlight Press

Thank you @trashlightpress.bsky.social!

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Style it out, baby

'Perhaps “Dear Sirs, Mesdames and Others”, just to be safe?

Certainly not, says the Law Society: we should avoid gender-specific terms completely. And why put men first?'

Dear readers, by Joshua Rozenberg

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Dear readers
Law firms advised to stop addressing each other as ‘Dear Sirs’
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'The festival will be a weekend of collective conversations to get everyone thinking, about challenges thrown up by a changing world and new opportunities emerging'

Alastair Donald and Ella Whelan
on the Battle of Ideas

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Battle of Ideas: there's no substitute for 'being there'
Next weekend's festival in Westminster is our 20th – and there's never been a better opportunity to be at the heart of honest, open, public debate.
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'Honorable Mention' in the Circle Foundation for the Arts' International Artist of the Month Contest

Thank you circle-arts.com!
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'Jordan Peterson, an even more famous soothsayer of the so-called Christian revival, not only ignores facts, he openly disdains them. Drunk on symbolism, he seems sincerely not to care whether something is factually true or not'

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But is it true? (Let’s hear it for reality)
Tom Holland’s book Dominion is much touted these days by those proclaiming a “Christian revival”.
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'It was OK to be sensitive, pleasant and shambolic. In our ingenuous and artless marginal lives, validation was just another pleasurable exotic encounter'

Where do I begin with... The Lemonheads

Simon Harrison in The Line Of Best Fit

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Where do I begin with... The Lemonheads
As the first Lemonheads' album of original material in nearly two decades hits the world, Simon Harrison guides us through the best – and worst – records of one of indie rock's most troubled bands
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"The thought occurred that this kind of ‘Anglofuturism’ was the actual Dadaist-style counter-narrative to the social progress mode of art in pretty much every establishment art gallery going"

Based in Kings Cross - Power & Intimacy Exhibition

SBwP

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Based in Kings Cross - Power & Intimacy Exhibition
Sitting outside the pub on the corner of the street near the pop-up gallery where the Power & Intimacy exhibition was held, one punter shouted at the barman to ‘f*ck off’ when he was told to leave due...
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'My fear about The Life Of A Showgirl era is that the relatability and kinship that made her so initially successful is fading'

The Line of Best Fit on new Tay Tay album

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The Monday Meeting
What to make of The Life Of A Showgirl
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Delighted that my painting Eggheads & Cocktails has been included in the Through The Eyes Of A Child 3D exhibition by Culturally Arts Collective

Catalogue also available in link. Thank you CAC!

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New album: The Believe Years

Non-album singles, live tracks and other miscellanea, 1993-2018

'Wonderful...the songs are as heartfelt as they are intelligent' - Alain de Botton

Available via @routenote.bsky.social and all online stores

Listen here: open.spotify.com/album/17o8M6...
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@seanbwparker5000.bsky.social's "Artists at Work" worked wonders with linework and composition.
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We love your work, Sean! Best of luck and thank you for sharing with us 😊
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Delighted that my painting Artists At Work (2024) has been nominated for the Best Of The Net Awards by In Short Literary Journal

Thank you @inshortlit.bsky.social!
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'What we see here is a new national philosophy that is a course-correction the sensible left, right, and middle can agree on; a rebalancing of liberty and equality in favour of fraternity'

Unity is Coming - National Liberalism, by Postwoke Pete

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Unity is Coming
National liberalism is the way through our fake divide
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My 2023 portrait 'Jonathan King' has been included in the recent 'Faux' issue of Massachusetts based Meat For Tea - The Valley Review

Thank you MFT!

Order here: meatfortea.com/buy.htm
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I was interviewed by jl-interviews recently, and thought they did a very good job

Alongside my Harold Pinter portrait (Judge's Choice winner at this year's Worthing Open Exhibition)

Read in full here: www.jlinterviews.com/sean-bw-park...
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'Bentham’s design was never directly used, but the idea took hold as a symbol of state overreach and control, most famously in Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish'

Andrew Doyle on Starmer's digital ID as 'Panopticon'

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Why we shouldn’t trust digital ID
The government wants us to live in a condition of perpetual surveillance.
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'I don’t particularly care where my art comes from,” he added. “It doesn’t bother me if someone wears a For Britain badge [Morrissey] or is an anti-semite or whatever and they’re making extraordinary music'

Nick Cave has no shits left to give

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Nick Cave says he is "neither on the left nor on the right" and "finding both sides indefensible and unrecognisable"
Nick Cave has shared insight on his political outlook, and said that he is "neither on the left nor on the right” as he finds both sides “unrecognisable”.
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Delighted that my painting Artists At Work (2024) has been nominated for the Best Of The Net Awards by In Short Literary Journal

Thank you @inshortlit.bsky.social!
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'Of course, there are differences between the IRA and Hamas. They both aimed to defeat a larger neighbour, but the IRA never believed that the UK or the British people did not have a right to exist'

PEACE IN GAZA? I'VE BEEN THERE - Phelim McAleer

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