Ivan Seal was born on 22 May 1973 and is an English painter and sound artist who specializes in surreal and abstract works centered around concepts of memory and the creation of imagined objects.
10 Facts About Ivan Seal
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Ivan Seal is best known for his collaborations with electronic musician James Leyland Kirby, known as The Caretaker, creating artwork for the critically acclaimed albums: An Empty Bliss Beyond This World and the six part album series Everywhere at the End of Time, both of which examine themes of memory loss through the long-term mental decay brought about by dementia.
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Ivan Seal was born in Stockport, England on 22 May 1973.
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Little is known about Seal's early life aside from attending Sheffield Hallam University from 1992 to 1995, during which Seal began to experiment with creating art installations using ambient music as a medium.
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At some point following his studies, Ivan Seal moved to Berlin, Germany, where he currently resides.
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Ivan Seal's first known exhibition was as a part of the 2006 "Anonymous" exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Germany, in which he was one of 11 anonymous artists featured.
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Ivan Seal held his first major solo exhibition "personality disorders" at the Carl Freedman Gallery in London starting in May 2011.
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Alongside these semi-regular exhibitions, Ivan Seal's works have been exhibited in galleries across Europe and the United States.
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Ivan Seal's art had been previously used by Kirby for Persistent Repetition of Phrases, released in 2008, but the usage of Ivan Seal's artwork for An Empty Bliss Beyond This World resulted in a continued collaborative relationship between the two artists.
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In 2012, Ivan Seal's artwork was used by Kirby as the album cover for the soundtrack to Grant Gee's film Patience.