Episode 4 of Opening Drinks is an in conversation with Verge director Tesha Malott and Sydney based artist Seth Birchall. Seth Birchall’s current practice is primarily an engagement with landscape, which he approaches as conceptual collages, drawing from sources that are both citational and autobiographical. Pictorially, there is an emphasis on underpainting, layers, dry brushwork, washes and lines. Taking a discursive approach to painting, Birchall’s interests lie in particular hauntings of early Modernism and thinking through this language in context of current image sharing ecologies. This translates to depictions of imagined and referential landscapes that nonetheless speak of personal memory and life.
Seth Diego Birchall is an artist based in Sydney and Bali Indonesia. He is of dual Australian and American nationalities, born in New Jersey in 1979 and emigrating to Australia in 1987. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Art School and a Masters of Arts from the College Of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales.
