henry|seaton collaborative partnerships
towner gallery eastborne
a joint exhibition compulsive, obsessive, repetitive at the towner gallery curated by sanna moore in 2011 that included seven artists, susie macmurray, brendan jamison, elpida hadzi-vasileva, jill townsley, claire morgan and henry seaton.
spinage offices islington london
having designed the office interior with performance artist martin gent we were invited to create an installation lasting for two weeks duration and situated between two of the office pods.
plymouth city centre
proposition for an anonomous object. proposals were invited for an art intervention in the city centre. large photos of our negative objects were to bedeck the facades of large office building as if they were advertising hordings
farleybank housing estate hastings
during the refurbishment of the estate in 2002-2004 flats were given over to artists to use as studios and create artwork and art installations. we occupied two flats with students from the spatial arts and undergraduate architecture courses from london metropolitan university. who undertook various interventions on the estate over that period. the table installation within the rooms of the flat by henry|seaton was part of the coastal currents initiative in 2003. all other work by students.
old brickworks taunton somerset
installation bringing together objects models and proposials. a mish-mash of artwork of various kinds,-photo-objects, models and materials demonstrating an underlying themes of our collaborative art practice.
newlyn dancing stones cornwall
newlyn dancing stone is a project proposal that attempts to bring the prehistory of west penwith into close focus. its proposition is to transpose the image of the merry-maidens stone circle to the streets of newlyn. a temporal and spatial juxtaposition that create new meanings and perceptions from the clash between prehistory and the present. placing ancient forms in new settings.
gloucester cathedral garth
this installation was placed in the garth at gloucester cathedral that poses the ancient with a modern resonances. it takes the shape of a cruciform with its northern ‘transept’ truncated and set against the ‘monks lavatory’ in the north walk cloisters. this emulates the layout of the cathedral proper with its unequal transepts, but with the direction of the ‘nave’ reflected east to west. the death of objects suggested in the work, and their strange resemblance to sarcophagus sets it apart from its new context. their siting within the common ground of the cathedral garth and close to the once daily bodily functions emphasises the juxtapostion between the sacred and profane contained within the work.
archway talking tables london
an installation to gather local input that snaked through the archway shopping centre. open ended propositions for the centre were made for discussion by architecture, interior design and spatial art students from londonmet
