Born in South Africa and raised between there and New Zealand, Sean Bosman is a visual artist with a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Having immigrated to Canada in 2017, he now lives and works on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Vancouver.
His practice explores “in-between” states of mediums, and the marginal distinctions that separate art object from art material or the performance of art-making from its outcome.
Currently this is expressed through printmaking, painting, mold-making, photography and digital image manipulation. This results in works incorporating various combinations of plaster, fabric, paint, digital image, clay, and gold-leaf. By embracing these interactions between diverse media and allowing them to inform each other he examines our relationships to contemporary and classical materiality and subject, and our relationship to religious iconography.