Seán Vicary

Seán Vicary works across moving image, animation and digital media.

His practice explores ideas at the heart of our relationship with the ‘natural’ world, place and landscape (internal and external); investigating links between the subjective, scientific and historical aspects, especially those that are obscure or concealed. 

Active research is integral to his creative process and he frequently works with primary sources to shape his understanding and inform explorations of contemporary mythos. Also central is a hybrid process of haptic and digital crafting, where the temporal manipulation inherent in stop-motion animation is used to examine the agency of materials and our entanglement with more than human processes and timescales.

Seán often works place-sensitively; collecting found objects and fragments of detritus, then manipulating these elements in a virtual space to create animated assemblages. These act as triggers for the viewer, sometimes suggestive of a wider narrative or hidden processes at play behind the visible.

Seán is a regular exhibitor at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, previously winning the Design and Craft prize in 2011, the Ifor Davies Award in 2016 and the Gold Medal for Fine Art in 2022.