'Henry'

Original signed artwork

Edition 1 of 1

Paint on repurposed London bus panel

Size: 94 x 71 cm

“The characters are loosely based on the Transformer franchise as well as Gundam. I’ve taken childhood cartoons I used to watch as a kid and transformed them as if they are growing up with me. Thinking about the images/ cartoons that influence my development. It’s an avenue I’d like to pursue further and start merging Eastern and Western animation pop culture. 

The paintings also contain relief elements to create a playful in person response in the viewer. Slowing down the viewing process to counteract the digital spaces that we regularly inhabit."

Sebastian Chaumeton

Born in London in 1996, Seb Chaumeton is an emerging multi-media artist fascinated by the effects of internet culture.

Sebastian's work tries its best to make social commentary on the issues of today. Through the lens of memes and internet culture, armed with a whimsical magic realism, his paintings touch on a variety of ideas from trolls, tweets and triggers to materiality, masculinity and morals. The backbone to most of his work revolves around context and its dilution in an oversaturated world of information and images. He plays with context and enjoys subverting meaning in unnecessary convoluted metaphors and memes. In doing so Chaumeton attempts to highlight the viewers’ predisposed prejudices and assumptions of images they are confronted with. This concept is similarly reflected in how he creates paintings by using a variety of mediums, ranging from the classical oils and acrylic paints to found objects, fabrics and sculpted elements. Not only does this challenge your perceptions of what you are looking at, but also slows down the viewing process to counteract the immediacy of the images one receives online. He often take these ideas further into performative video, self interviews, “instructional” tutorials and sculptures, often deploying humour as a playful tool to layer his ideas further...like an onion. 

 Previous Exhibits:​

"Context Plz" - Solo show @ Maddox Gallery (Westbourne Grove) 2021

“Little Fables” - Group show @ Whitestone (Hong Kong) 2020

“Fuzzy Futures” - Solo show @t Maddox Gallery (Mayfair) 2019

“Degree Show” - Final year show @ Chelsea College (Pimlico) 2019

 “Extended Call” - Group show @ Subsidiary Projects (Vauxhall) 2018

“Cop A Feel” - Charity group show/event for breast cancer (Brixton) 2018

“Milk It” - Collaborative group show (Marylebone) 2018

“Laboratorium” - Collaborative curation of group show at Ovada (Oxford) 2015

“TM Lighting”- Group show with Made In Arts London (Kings Cross) 2018