SEBASTIAN CRAIG
Sebastian Craig is an Artist and the Director of i-cabin, which is a project space, publisher and author.
Projects authored by i-cabin have been collaborative projects generated by Sebastian (and untill 2007 J.Blightman) through a dialogue with the project space.
His practice is concerned with the transferral of information into architecture and the generation of an ongoing dialogue on Artistic intention.
Address: c/o i-cabin, Clarendon Buildings, 11 Ronalds Road, London, N5 1XJ
i-cabin@hotmail.co.uk / www.i-cabin.co.uk / www.i-cabin.co.uk/studiosc.htm
Mobile: 07813 764 937
Forthcoming Old Gold, Chicago, February 2009.
Radiator Festival - Exploits in the Wireless City, January 2009.
2008 Ghostwriters, Tyler Coburn and Sebastian Craig. Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, New York.
2008 Colliding Subjectives, Meantime Project Space, Cheltenham. The Events of Paris '86 , 2007. Digital Prints, noticeboard.
2008 Tree Hugger, Platform, Vaasa, Finland. Collaborative Study on Parially Sighted Philanthropic Gestures (working Model) , 2008. Mixed Media.
2007 Notional Architectures. Solo show. i-cabin, London.
2007 La Commune, Serpentine Gallery, London. On the Physical Implications of the Applications of Information, 2006, wood, steel, paint, photograph, glass
& Mythologies , 2007. Publication.
2007 What is it? i-cabin retrospective containing all the offsite projects authored by i-cabin., Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge.
2007 Geo-phono-box, Around the Coyote, Chicago. 3.29miles Public , 2007, sound.
2006 Cabin Baggage, Satellites, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Four Paintings Commissioned by S.Craig in 2006 , 2006, paint, linen, wood.
2006 Direct Currency Exchange, Around the Coyote, Chicago.Visitors, 2006, floor tiles, LED sign.
2006 Commission from UrbanLab to produce a Public Artwork to coincide with Architecture Week 2006. Information is a Building Material and Architecture of
Information, 2006, posters.
2006 Either Taking it out or Putting it in . Two person exhibition at The White Cubicle Gallery, London. Document, not monument Chair , 2006, plywood, screws.
2006 Nominated for Becks Futures competition at ICA (i-cabin).
2006 Another Product, Cornerhouse, Manchester. The Bible Makes it Perfectly Clear , 2006, digital print.
2006 Commission to install work at Bridgewater Middle School, Herefordshire. On the Physical Implications of the Applications of Information, 2006, wood, steel, paint.
2006 Commission to install work in Piccadilly Hostel. On the Geography of Cultural Context , wall-painting.
2005-6 Broadcast . Solo show at i-cabin project space, London.
2005 Project for ZOO ART FAIR, i-cabin stand at Zoo Art Fair, 2005. Table for a Four Person Think-Tank , 2005, perspex, wood, steel.
2005 Istanbul Airport Project, Istanbul.
2005 B.Y.O/resource . i-cabin project space. Pallet 1 , 2005, wood, Formica laminate, glue.
2004 Opened i-cabin Project Space, London.
2003 Tarts Eggs. Group Show at Former Nylon Space, London. Peripheral Project , 2003, incidental apparatus.
2003 Elthorne Studios, London. A Bitextual Place, 2003, furniture, paint, overhead projector, acetates. With Richard Jones.
2003 Nicholas Hall Gallery Project, London
2003 We Are Relentless. The Custard Factory, Birmingham. Curated by AAS. Inforoom, 2003, paper, plastic, furniture.
2001 Exhibitionism. The Works Gallery, Birmingham
2001 The Birmingham Six. The Works Gallery, Birmingham.
2001 Exhibition to be Constructed in Your Head. The Custard Factory, Birmingham.
Articles and Press
2008 ICA, Nought to Sixty Gazetteer No.1, Page 25.
2008 Publish and Be Damned, Catalogue.
2008 Inside Magazine, Issue 2, Winter 2008. Artist-Run Spaces , Elena Serpota, Pages 37-43.
2007 Modern Painters. March 2007, Diary: Aesthetic and Political , Matthew Collings, Pages 26-29.
2007 Zoo Art Fair catalogue, Page 56.
2007 Plan B. April 2007. Proile: i-cabin , Tyler Coburn.
2006 Hollow Culture, UrbanLab publication. Work Published: The Architecture of Information.
2006 Zoo Art Fair 2006 catalogue.
2006 ICA, Becks Futures Catalogue.
2005 Cocoon Magazine, Work Published: Declaration in Yellow and Blue , Page 31.
2005 Zoo Art Fair 2005 catalogue.
2003 Collections, The Custard Factory, Exhibition Caltalogue. Essay Published: De-natured Elephants- The Art of Museumisation .
Collections
Collection of Ostrobothnian museum ( Vaasa City Museum). (Work: Vaasa from Imagination , 2008. Graphite on paper).
Collection of Brooklyn Museum (Artists Book Collection, Work: Ghostwriters )
Collection of Museum of Modern Art, New York (Artist Book collection, Work: Ghostwriters )
Publish and Be Damned Archive. (Works: Mythologies, Hello Sebastian...did you say A4, What is it?)
Education
2005-7 MA Interdisciplinary Design. Central St. Martins, London.
2001-3 BA(hons) Fine Art. Grade: 2:1(hons) Byam Shaw School of Art, London.
1999-2001 Coventry School of Art. (2 years on BA Fine Art prior to transferring).
2008 Visiting Lecturer, Fine Art Department, University of Reading.
2007 ' Close Your Eyes to Art' . Speaker invited by Resonance FM to take part in the discussion programme at Tate Modern.
2005/6 Visiting Lecturer, Fine Art Department, Middlesex University.
2004-present Director of i-cabin Project Space, London.
July 2003 Making Space Conference, Yorkshire Artspace Society. Delegate. Regarding art-spaces and related projects.
i-cabin
Since 2005 i-cabin has operated 4 programming strands concurrently.
Year1 is concerned with exhibiting emerging international artists who have not had solo shows in London before. The artists take part in a residency at i-cabin resulting in entirely new and site-specific works generated through a dialogue with i-cabin and the i-cabin space.
Year2 works with more established international artists (who may or may not be represented by other galleries) and asks them to operate outside of their normal practice. Year2 hopes to result in entirely unique works which would not have been generated elsewhere and are a result of a specific exchange.
Year3 is i-cabin's offsite collaborative practice. Since our nomination for Beck's Futures in 2005 i-cabin has operated as an 'Art production Hub' authoring original artworks for international exhibitions and art fairs.
Year4 is our new programme. It is an unrestricted number of one week long shows by artists with disjointed and problematic practices. The programme will culminate in a public archive which will act as a unique reference document of difficult contemporary practice.
2008
October 19 - 27 i-cabin (in collaboration with Lewis Amar, Sebastian Craig and Duncan McAfee): NOHOPEFORUS.
September 13 - 28 Barry Sykes: I Was Born on the Day Heidegger Died (But I don't Know Much About His Work). (Year1)
August 9 - 17 The Miller and McAfee Press: The End of the Beginning. (Year4)
July 5 - 13 Caleb Lyons: You Just Can't Win. (Year4)
May 31 - June 8 Alec Dunnachie (Year4)
March 8 - March 22 Collaborative Study on Partially Sighted Philanthropic Gestures (working model), Barry Sykes and Sebastian Craig/i-cabin, Platform, Vaasa,
Finland. (Year3)
January 16 - February 3 Jemima Stehli and Lewis Amar: Video Works 2005-6. (Year2/Year1)
2007
October i-cabin(texts): Projects for Zoo Art Fair 2007. Happily I spill My Guts to You or Sadly it Comes to This , 2007.
Three Art Objects Which Are Not For Sale , 2007. (Year3)
July 7 - July 29 Duncan McAfee: I'm Human Now. You're Human Later. (Year1)
April 14 - May 13 Sebastian Craig: Notional Architectures. (Year1)
February 22 - March 18 What is it? A review of i-cabin offsite projects 2004-7. Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge. (Year3)
January 13 - Feb 4 Patrick Meny: Far 2 Close. (Year1)
2006
October 6 - 16 (Group)Show. (Year3)
October i-cabin(texts): Z006, A Project for Zoo Art Fair. (Year3)
September 7 - Oct 14 Satellites, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Curated by Francesco Manacorda and Erin Manns. (Year3)
August 11 - August 31 i-cabin: Direct Currency Exchange. Around the Coyote, Chicago. (Year3)
July 7 - July 23 Direct Currency Exchange Part 2. artLedge: To London from Chicago with Great Love. (Year1)
June 2 - June 25 Christina Mackie: How to Begin. (Year2)
March 24 - April 16 Adrian Hermanidez & Robert Michael: Blackson. (Year1)
February 22 - 29 i-cabin: Either Taking it out of Putting it in. The White Cubicle Gallery, curated by Pablo Leon De La Barra.
2005
December 16 - Jan 6 '06 Sebastian Craig: Broadcast* (*communication to the art viewer). (Year1)
November 4 - December 4 Adam Latham, Jon Baldock and Anthea Hamilton: Ich Bin Ein Sachennaushiesse. (Year1)
October 2005 i-cabin: Project for Zoo Art Fair. (Year3)
October 6 - October 30 Juliette Blightman: Marcelle, are you feeling bored with life? (Year1)
July 16 - August 7 B.Y.O./resource. (Group show, no specific programme)
June 3 - June 26 Darren Norman vs. Giovanni Manzini. (Year1)
May 9 - May 22 Alec Steadman: Clarendon Building Project. (Year1)
April 8 - May 1 Matt Incledon: Proposition. (Year1)
January 13 - February 20 Till Exit: STRAND (in several harmonies). (Year2)
Articles and Press
2008 ICA, Nought to Sixty Gazetteer No.1, Page 25.
2008 Publish and Be Damned, Catalogue.
2008 Inside Magazine, Issue 2, Winter 2008. Artist-Run Spaces , Elena Serpota, Pages 37-43.
2007 Modern Painters. March 2007, Diary: Aesthetic and Political , Matthew Collings, Pages 26-29.
2007 Zoo Art Fair catalogue, Page 56.
2007 Plan B. April 2007. Proile: i-cabin , Tyler Coburn.
2006 Zoo Art Fair 2006 catalogue.
2006 ICA, Becks Futures Catalogue.
2005 Modern Painters. October 2005, Undiscovered London , Roger Tatley and William Turner, Pages 50-53.
2005 Zoo Art Fair 2005 catalogue.
Collections
i-cabin's own work is represented in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Chicago, the Publish and Be Damned Archive and the private collections of Franz Koenig, Peter Saville and Ryan Gander.