Sean Bw Parker

Sean Bw Parker (MA) is an artist, writer and musician specialising in painting, poetry,

cultural theory and justice reform. After gaining a Masters degree in Fine Art from the

University for the Creative Arts in 2003 he lived and worked in Istanbul for ten years, has

published a number of books and albums, performed at or curated festivals, given a TED

talk (Stammering and Creativity, 2013), and had paintings displayed at London’s South

Bank Centre, Chelsea Art Society, Bath Fringe and a number of other exhibitions. He

founded and ran the Seafish arts and music venue on the West Sussex coast in 2016, won

14 Koestler Arts Awards between 2019 and 2026, including two Platinum awards for play

The Wolfstadt-Wire in 2020 and book Compelling Speech - The Stammering Enigma

(2023). His 12th book Magnolia Graffiti was published in 2026. He has contributed to Time

Out Istanbul, Louder Than War, God Is In The TV, Inside Time, Yeni Safak and many

more publications, was art and content editor of Tor Times from 2019 to 2021, and and

has been editor of False Allegations Watch since 2022. Described by some as ‘Narrative

Pop Art’, his paintings have received endorsements from Nick Cave, Ricky Gervais, Scott

Adams, Kristin Hersh, Jeremy Deller and others. He was born in Exeter in 1975 and

currently lives on the West Sussex coast.