James Seow 'The Garden Path'
print on acrylic with LED-backlit lighbox   .  113 x 130 cm


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London-based artist James Seow works across a range of media and techniques including print, photography, sculpture and installation. He works using multiple media, forming dialogues with various disciplines where the exchange of information, material and techniques is a continuing source of inspiration. Seow’s hybrid Malaysian and British identity often inspires architectural, urban and nature themes in his work. This interest is very much rooted in his earlier upbringing back in Malaysia. There, he witnessed a huge transformation of the country through mass deforestation and urban planning policies during the 1990s. Since then the theme of Nature’s relationship with urban life has very much informed his work. Often using site / place, for example public squares, parks and gardens, to exemplify human attempts to impose order on natural forces, his work depicts the struggle between the natural and the artificial, the rational and the instinctual. He continues to observe and investigate a wide range of cultural, socio-political, technological, environmental and aesthetic issues.

Seow’s work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collection of various private individuals as well as Central St Martins School of Art and Design, Royal College of Art, Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and St James, Berkeley Group, UK.