VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Collection: MIKE SEYMOUR
ARTIST STATEMENT
Mike Seymour's artwork situates itself within the disciplines of craft, architecture, and design. His process involves an experimental approach to combining and using craft and industrial processes and hands-on collaboration with craftspeople and technicians. Deliberately suspending his focus between crafts such as metalworking, enamelling, glass working and ceramics, combining the processes and materials almost haphazardly, his interest lies in bypassing a kind of technical ability to allow the material and techniques to influence the works.
Mike Seymour has worked as a designer for the international lighting company 'Bocci' for over a decade, where he specialized in large scale installations and exhibitions. Meanwhile, he has maintained an active art studio practice exploring ceramic, glass and metal work while completing 2 public artworks in Vancouver.
In 2024, Mike Seymour launched 'Sfossils' as a way of reframing works that bridge sculptural and functional prerogatives. The debut installation 'Paean' was a large columnal ceramic chandelier hung in the grand staircase of the Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, a 16th century disused villa in Milan, Italy.
