Sean Burton

In a former life, Sean served worldwide as a soldier. Today, as an artist, Sean has a foot in both street art and the art ‘establishment’.

Whilst his primary canvas has been the walls of Melbourne’s laneways, he has been exhibited in galleries nationally, and been a finalist in The Lester Prize, the National Portrait Gallery’s Darling Portrait Prize and shortlisted for the Australian War Memorial’s Napier Waller Art Prize. He has also been featured in two exhibitions by the Australian National Veterans Arts Museum.

Seans work was recently featured in the Between Two Worlds exhibition at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance.

Growing up in UK, Sean was heavily influenced by the punk movement and politically aware British counter-culture. He was drawn to the ‘do it yourself’ and inclusive ethos of punk: creating outsider art and an identity from whatever people had at hand.