Sean Bw Parker/ Abandoned

Sean Bw Parker (MA) is an artist, writer, and musician specialising in painting, poetry, cultural theory, and the media-justice system. After gaining a Master's degree in Fine Art from the University for the Creative Arts in 2003, he lived and worked in Istanbul for ten years, published several books and albums, performed at or curated festivals, gave a TED talk, and had paintings displayed at London’s South Bank Centre and many other exhibitions. He founded and ran the Seafish arts and music venue on the West Sussex coast in 2016, and won Platinum Koestler Arts awards for play The Wolfstadt-Wire in 2020 and book Compelling Speech - The Stammering Enigma in 2023. He has received endorsements from Nick Cave, Ricky Gervais, Scott Adams, and Kristin Hersh for his paintings, and his 11th book, Panopticon (poetry), was published through Hunsbury Press in 2025. He was born in Exeter in 1975 and currently lives on the West Sussex coast.