“...I’m obsessed with our innate, creative potential to manifest something from nothing... and how that can be extrapolated into alternative ways of being in & co-creating our world(s). That - for me - is an entirely magical processes and I revel in the irrational and intuitive prospects of it.”

Benjamin Sebastian (1980 AUS/GB) is a trans-disciplinary visual artist and curator living in London (U.K.). Their work spans performance, sculpture, curation, video, text, installation, drawing & new media - rooted in processes of bricolage, assemblage, collage, ritual & D.I.Y. cultural production.


Through harmonizing nonbinary perspectives with neurodivergent cognition, Sebastian weaves nascent narratives into existence, offering alternative ways of remebering, being here-and-now, and charting pathways to futures yet formed.


Sebastian proposes their work might be imagined as: “... a constellation of mirrors; reflecting aspects of the body, times, spaces & relationships I (have) inhabit(ed) - or - as world-making experiments, manifested through intuitive, erotic and esoteric methodologies.” 

Sebastian facilitates temporal environments of exchange, reflection & visioning via exhibitions and cultural programming in their work as co-founding director & curator of both ]performance s p a c e [; nurturing the prime conditions for performance art(ists) in the U.K. - and - VSSL Studio; an artist-led gallery & creative suite centring contemporary, queer visual art practices.


They hold a BA Fine Art HONS (1st Class) from the University of Lincoln and MA Curating Art and Public Programmes through Whitechapel Gallery/London Southbank University - Sebastian’s continued research interests include; Artificial Intelligence, Occult Practices, Queer Ecologies, Decolonialism, Transhumanism, Contemporary Performance & Visual Art. They are currently funded by Arts Council England through the National Lottery Project Grants scheme (2023/25).

Some of their most recent activities include: performance of ‘Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light’ as part of Pretty Doomed at Ugly Duck (2023), exhibition of ‘Benjamin Sebastian + Alicia Radage’ at VSSL Studio (2023) curating ‘FACET’ at VSSL Studio (2023), guest curating the ‘Intersect series’ at the Live Art Development Agency (2023), speaking on the symposium; ‘Art, Memory & Place’ at Turner Contemporary (2022), as well as performance of their live installation ‘3 Reflections²’ as part of FUTURERITUAL at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2022).


Additional recent activity has included: curating ‘PSX: A Decade of Performance Art in the U.K.’ (2021) on behalf of ]performance s p a c e [, exhibition of their solo show ‘Working With Entities//Setting Intent’ (2021) at VSSL Studio, and curation of VSSL Studio’s inaugural programme; ‘Gathering in a Time of Plague’ (2021).


A complete history of Sebastian’s activity may be viewed through their archive.