Biography
The artistic practice of photographer and filmmaker Lindsay Seers goes beyond simple storytelling to become a network in which conceptual investigation, a desire for photography to act as evidence, historical and personal contexts, and the camera itself merge. Her work represents the creative process in action; the act of observation influences the outcome of the events themselves.
Among Seers’ solo and group exhibitions are Every thought there ever was, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (2020); Care(less), Fabrica, Brighton, UK (2019); Vanishing Twin, Tetragametic Chimerism, Fotogalleriet, Oslo (2019); A Woman’s Place, Knole, Sevenoaks, UK (2018); Suffering, MONA, Hobart, Tasmania (2017); Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2016); Objects Do Things, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2016); Stories in the Dark, Whitstable Biennale, UK (2016); Leisure Land Golf, Venice Biennale (2015); Reads Like a Book, Cricoteka, Krakow, Poland (2015); MIRRORCITY, Hayward Gallery, London (2014); Nowhere Less Now² (The Red Queen), MONA, Tasmania (2013); Artist Comes First, Toulouse International Art Festival, France (2013); Entangled² (Theatre II), Matt's Gallery, London (2013) and Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2012); Monocular⁴, Quad, Derby, UK (2013); Nowhere Less Now, Tin Tabernacle, Kilburn, London (2012); and Extramission 6, TPW Gallery, Toronto (2011).
Seers has received a number of awards and grants, including a major award for a new work from the Wellcome Trust (2016); Le Jeu de Paume production award for the Toulouse Festival, France (2013); a Production Programme Grant, Sharjah Art Foundation (2012); the Paul Hamlyn Award, UK (2010); the Film London and Channel 4 Jarman Award (2009); and a broadcast commission for Channel 4’s 3 Minute Wonder series (2009).
She earned a BA Hons in Sculpture and Media from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (1994), and a Master of Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London (2001).
Born in 1966 in Mauritius, Seers lives on the Isle of Sheppey, UK, and works in Sheerness and London.
SAF participation:
Production Programme (2012)