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Sean Bw Parker
@seanbwparker5000.bsky.social
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Artist-writer-musician

Saatchi Art site: https://www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbwparker
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My ‘music paintings’ from the last couple of years - with handy track links

Featuring @nickcave, @rickygervais, @kristinhersh, @LozzaFox, @KenStringfellow, @Glinner, @DominicFrisby, @thestoneroses, @Damonalbarn and more

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Music Paintings
November 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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"An observation of the day was that the £500K fine levied at Sussex Uni appeared to have mysteriously focussed the minds of some other universities. As Spinal Tap once said so eloquently: ‘Money talks and bullshit walks’"

Me on the AFAF conference 2025

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‘We Need To Burn The Whole Thing Down And Start Again’
Sean Parker's personal view of the AFAF Conference 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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'Goya’s macabre still life starkly contrasts with Thiebaud’s pristine depictions of meat. A comparison of how the two artists approached the genre reveals how bloody revolutionary Europe has been polished over time'

Ella Nixon at the The Courtauld

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Baloney with Substance: Wayne Thiebaud at The Courtauld
The still life genre recast under blue Californian shadows
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November 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Delighted to report after a few weeks of listening that The Last Dinner Party's second album From The Pyre is just as good as their classic debut Prelude To Ecstasy

Both utterly compelling, all the way through
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November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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'I have long been a writer who spends a good deal of time sprawled typing away on a chaise longue, with frequent outings to places of libation and mastication; apart from the fact that I can’t walk, not much has changed since a year ago'

Julie Burchill

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HALFLING: A FAREWELL TO LEGS - Part 20
The twentieth instalment about my collapse, surgery and subsequent life in a wheelchair, and the attitude of society towards the disabled - not quite humans, but 'Halflings‘.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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'I haven't travelled on a train or walked in a straight line for 40 years'

Jeremy Bamber on Heidi Blake's New Yorker podcast

Jeremy is the only prisoner serving a whole life order in the UK to consistently maintain their innocence
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Delighted that my Nick Cave - Wild God has won a Creative Excellence Award in Circle Arts' Paris Contest

Prints proving popular since Nick himself shared it on his Red Hand Files website recently. Get your own here (various sizes and materials): www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/print/...
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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'The exhibition’s vitality, in other words, wasn’t only aesthetic but civic - proof that a culture can still generate form without institutional sanction'

Power & Intimacy in Pimlico Journal - by Lana Starkey

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London's new vitalism
REVIEW: Power & Intimacy
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November 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Lovely art summary here from London's ArtFlow Studio

Thank you ArtFlow!

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November 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Beethoven's 7th Symphony, 2nd movement (Speaking Unto Nations)

Listen along here: open.spotify.com/track/4EcOBe...

Prints available here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/print/...

#beethoven
November 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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My painting Mars: The Bringer of War has been on quite a journey this year, and is now included in The Palimsest of Memory exhibition (alongside my favourite living artist, Don Bergland...wow)

Thank you Culturally Arts!

Explore here: www.culturallyarts.com/palimpsestof...
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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'The film’s themes of parental absence and emotional substitution resonate uncannily with social shifts of the 1980s - no-fault divorce, career-driven parenting, and even the idea of surrogacy'

Labyrinth as social commentary - who'd have thought it?

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Prominent Antagonists: Jareth the Goblin King ("Labyrinth")
The Goblin King, Glam Rock, and the Art of Temptation
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November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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My new painting Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter at Christmas will be in the Chinwe Russell Christmas Auction from November 16th to December 7th - Lot 0377

Register and get ready to bid here: www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2195590...
Richard E. Grant & Helena Bonham Carter At Christmas Sean Bw Parker Oil Pastel And Mixed Media On Auction
SHIPS FROM Worthing, UK Portrait impression of actors Richard E Grant & Helena Bonham Carter at Christmas, at a piano. Sean Bw Parker (MA) is a British {ellipsis}
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November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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'Scottish judges have violated the rights of rape suspects, the UK Supreme Court decided yesterday

The courts of Scotland are now under a duty to modify their current approach to the admissibility of evidence in sexual offences cases'

Joshua Rozenberg

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Suspects have rights too
Scottish judges told they have been handling rape trials wrongly
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November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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'It is particularly horrible to see that even in a discussion specifically focused on men’s pain and alienation, women’s demands and presumed needs remain central'

Janice Fiamengo is unconvinced by Tucker Carlson and Chris Williamson feminism chat

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Women Are Wonderful, Men Can Be Useful
Tucker Carlson and Chris Williamson nibble on, but don’t swallow, a red pill
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November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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'Not unreasonably, Trump is demanding a retraction and apology. He is not likely to be satisfied with what Samir Shah told the Commons culture, media and sport committee yesterday about the Panorama programme'

Will Trump sue? - by Joshua Rozenberg

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November 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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'Is the growing divide around the sexes now an issue to take seriously – perhaps in ways that class or racial divides might once have been addressed in the past?'

Living Freedom

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Don't let the fight for freedom go into hibernation! Forthcoming Living Freedom events
Living Freedom is discussing the gender divide that has emerged in politics – and having a Christmas party with a serious-but-fun balloon debate. PLUS: other freedom events over the coming weeks.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Received this lovely card on behalf of Ashley Cumberpatch this week (in prison maintaining innocence)

Sometimes we receive our reward in heaven, sometimes it comes through the letterbox!

Read about Ashley's case here: empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/ccrcwatch/po...
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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'Feelings of deprivation lead marginalised minority members to perceive the political system as rigged, stimulating belief in both identity‐relevant and irrelevant conspiracy theories'

Fascinating history of media-fuelled sex panics, by Jay Beecher

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THE 'EPSTEIN CLIENT LIST' - AN ORIGIN STORY
The birth of the 'Epstein client list' myth is far more complex than you may think, conceived from conspiracy theories with age-old roots. Let's take a VERY deep dive...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Various printed miscellanea of my 'artist paintings' - specifically Nick Cave, Ricky Gervais, The Famous Artist Birdy Rose and Ozzy Osbourne (for now) - available at @redbubble

From very cheap to prohibitively expensive

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seanbwparker Shop | Redbubble
seanbwparker is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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When ETI met APMI

Dr Michael Naughton of Empowering The Innocent spoke to Danny Barrs of the Association of Prisoners Maintaining Innocence about Danny's wrongful conviction and wider justice reform

Including notes for James Timpson, Deborah Meaden and more

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Dr Michael Naughton in conversation with Danny Barrs, Chair, Assn Prisoners Maintaining Innocence.
YouTube video by Empowering the Innocent TV (ETI TV)
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November 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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The Famous Artist Birdy Rose (2025)

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November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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"Scottish children are being educated about their ‘whiteness’ and ‘white privilege’, or alternatively, their victimhood"

Why Scottish education matters – even if you don't live in Scotland

15/11/25

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Why Scottish education matters – even if you don't live in Scotland
Labour's new curriculum review has left many of us worried it will lead to dumbing down in England and Wales. Here, Stuart Waiton explains why we have much to learn from the disasters in Scotland.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Removing counter-intuitive and punitive licence conditions for those consistently maintaining innocence would save HMPPS many thousands of pounds - and be the right thing to do

Fighting crime needs funding - Joshua Rozenberg

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Fighting crime needs funding
Peers say probation needs more money while police predict more crime
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November 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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'Not only do I have a rock solid alibi now, but proof that Essex police covered up Milbank’s evidence by faking a witness statement to mislead the courts'

Jeremy Bamber via Simon Hattenstone in @theguardian.com

But will the CCRC refer Bamber's case?

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The Jeremy Bamber twist: does Britain’s most notorious murderer finally have an alibi?
This week, audio footage was released by the New Yorker magazine, which seemed to exonerate Bamber, who has been in prison for 40 years. Could this lead to his release?
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November 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM