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Sean Bw Parker
@seanbwparker5000.bsky.social
Artist-writer-musician

Saatchi Art site: https://www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbwparker
Now That's What I Call English Painting 1825 Megamix
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Politician and leader of the New Culture Forum Peter Whittle has died of cancer aged 64

My 2024 portrait of a deeply insightful man who cared and communicated about his nation and its culture

RIP Peter Whittle
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Art's not just for galleries and walls, no sirree. Wraptious (geddit?) are making cushions from their favourite pieces, and running a competition on them until midnight on December 3rd

Vote for me here: www.facebook.com/Wraptious/po...

Buy here: www.wraptious.com/a/search?q=s...
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Delighted to report after a few weeks of listening that The Last Dinner Party's second album From The Pyre is just as good as their classic debut Prelude To Ecstasy

Both utterly compelling, all the way through
open.spotify.com/album/3xxkjx...
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
'I haven't travelled on a train or walked in a straight line for 40 years'

Jeremy Bamber on Heidi Blake's New Yorker podcast

Jeremy is the only prisoner serving a whole life order in the UK to consistently maintain their innocence
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Delighted that my Nick Cave - Wild God has won a Creative Excellence Award in Circle Arts' Paris Contest

Prints proving popular since Nick himself shared it on his Red Hand Files website recently. Get your own here (various sizes and materials): www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/print/...
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Lovely art summary here from London's ArtFlow Studio

Thank you ArtFlow!

www.artflowstudiofficial.com/seanbwparker
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Beethoven's 7th Symphony, 2nd movement (Speaking Unto Nations)

Listen along here: open.spotify.com/track/4EcOBe...

Prints available here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/print/...

#beethoven
November 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
My painting Mars: The Bringer of War has been on quite a journey this year, and is now included in The Palimsest of Memory exhibition (alongside my favourite living artist, Don Bergland...wow)

Thank you Culturally Arts!

Explore here: www.culturallyarts.com/palimpsestof...
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
'Not unreasonably, Trump is demanding a retraction and apology. He is not likely to be satisfied with what Samir Shah told the Commons culture, media and sport committee yesterday about the Panorama programme'

Will Trump sue? - by Joshua Rozenberg

open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Received this lovely card on behalf of Ashley Cumberpatch this week (in prison maintaining innocence)

Sometimes we receive our reward in heaven, sometimes it comes through the letterbox!

Read about Ashley's case here: empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/ccrcwatch/po...
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The Famous Artist Birdy Rose (2025)

Prints available here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/print/...
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
'This internal threat is hostile to the key tenets, principles and foundations that sustain us as well as our communities - havens in a heartless world - our families, our freedom'

Bruno Waterfield and Claire Fox on Orwell and Patriotic Renewal

open.substack.com/pub/clairefo...
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Thanks for the SOCIETY - portraits shout-out #LitUpEvents!

Available here: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F48B2QY8
November 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter at Christmas (2025)

Prints available here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/print/...

@curtisbrownltd.bsky.social

#Christmas2025
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
'In one artwork, they adopt the persona of “White Bastards”, which, in fact, boosts their street cred to a gangster level, as suggested in the iconography they borrow from films'

Gilbert & George at the Hayward Gallery - by Ella Nixon

open.substack.com/pub/ellanixo...
November 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
'What we have is a shift in feeling but not in meaning

Altering this situation requires a willingness to engage in a cultural revolution against the holders of cultural power'

Frank Furedi on the 'vibe shift'

open.substack.com/pub/frankfur...
November 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Since Nick Cave shared my recent portrait of him as the cover for the recent missive of his Red Hand Files, prints for it have been flying out (relatively for little old me anyway). Available in various sizes here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/print/...

And #HappyHalloween!
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I recently guested on Read My Lips - The Creativity Show on Radio Red, alongside US novelists Peter J Stavros and John Bukowski

'The Nature of Creativity'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGH-...
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Artists: @Freedom_in_Arts survey

Have you faced pressure, censorship, or fear when sharing your work?

We want to understand what’s really happening - the everyday realities of artistic life in 2025

All responses are confidential and anonymous

t.co/heN3LLEUSY
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My portrait of Janice Fiamengo was shown at The Secret Salon in Hackney recently - where I discovered the work of Adarsha Ajay

She has very much a new fan
October 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Do you remember one of the BRITs' finest years, 1991, when The Cure, Happy Mondays et al played, and it all seemed very relevant?

Produced by Jonathan King, 'a highpoint' he says. Right is my portrait of JK in the recent Faux issue of Meat For Tea, available here: meatfortea.com/buy.htm
October 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Nick Cave - Wild God (2025)

More paintings here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

@nickcaveart.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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!

trashlightpress.com/issues/
October 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
'Honorable Mention' in the Circle Foundation for the Arts' International Artist of the Month Contest

Thank you circle-arts.com!
October 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM