Bio
Seamus Platt is an Australian born, Berlin-based, visual artist who employs the photographic image as a starting point in order to explore the distance between the documentary and narrative genres. Intentionally oscillating between photography’s poles; index and construction, Platt works to dismantle Photography’s archaic relation to authenticity, foregrounding the medium’s unavoidable bind with bias. Using the power of past tense, Platt leans on semiotic sequencing to create meaning through metaphor, pairing sets of disparate images that are drawn from their archive.
Platt responds to their immediate milieus, examining gender identity and so-called Australia’s socio-political landscape in an era of post-truth. Drawing on these familiarities in a tongue-in-cheek manner and expressed through the “every day,” Platt suggests subtle and evocative storylines in their works, which they consider indicative of a larger social context.
Graduating from the Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts (Visual Art) in 2017, Platt has gone on to exhibit work at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Fitzroy, Outer Space, The Brisbane Powerhouse, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Street Art Festival and The Walls Art Space Gold Coast.
Contact
hello@seamusplatt.com
CV
Seamus Platt
b. 1994, Brisbane, Australia.
Education
(2014-2017) Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts).
Awards and Achievements
(2019) MELT Portrait Prize Highly Commended.
(2018) 2018 Ilford CCP Salon Format Scan Best Series.
(2018) #PRIZENOPRIZE 2018 Finalist.
Appearances
Facilitator, Teens Workshop: Truth, Lies and the Photograph, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, 2021.
Solo Exhibitions
(2023) Portal to Yourself, pps / FORA, West End, Brisbane.
(2022) Suburban Apparitions, Echo & Bounce, Woolloongabba, Brisbane.
Group Exhibitions
(2023) MANIFEST/O, Galleri KiT, Trondheim, Norway.
(2022) Phototropism, The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour, Sunshine Coast.
(2021) MUTUAL INTENT, Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm, Brisbane.
(2021) Shandy: Sweat on the Dancefloor, Outer Space, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
(2021) MELT Portrait Prize Exhibition, Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm, Brisbane.
(2021) 2020 Ilford CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
(2020) Collab Club 5: Wiremu Hohaia & Seamus Platt, The Station, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
(2020) WIDE OPEN, KEPK, Yeerongpilly, Brisbane.
(2019) 2019 Ilford CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
(2019) Higher Order, Bib ‘n’ Brace, Teneriffe, Brisbane.
(2019) COTA, Open House Collective, West End, Brisbane.
(2019) Bloomed Photographic Exhibition, The Foundry, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
(2019) MELT Portrait Prize Exhibition, Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm, Brisbane.
(2019) Brisbane Street Art Festival: Within These Walls, West Village, West End, Brisbane.
(2019) Gum Magazine: Issue 1 Launch Exhibition, Bib ‘n’ Brace, Teneriffe, Brisbane.
(2018) 2018 Ilford CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
(2018) Spill City ~ Vol. 3, The Zoo, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
(2018) Keeskea ‘Forfeit Single’ Launch, Paddington Substation, Paddington, Brisbane.
(2018) #PRIZENOPRIZE, The Walls, Miami, Gold Coast.
(2018) No Clique, Bib ‘n’ Brace, Teneriffe, Brisbane.
(2016) Now What: 2016 QUT Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane.
(2016) Post Datum Collective: Tender Turf Exhibition, Hassel, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
Curation
(2018) No Clique, Bib ‘n’ Brace, Teneriffe, Brisbane.
Publications
(2020) GUM MAGAZINE, Issue 2
(2019) OUTSIDE, James Hornsby
(2018) Melbourne Milieu, Edition 6
(2016) Ibis Zine, Issue 5
(2015) Ibis Zine, Issue 4
(2015) Ibis Zine, Issue 2
(2015) Ibis Zine, Issue 1