Profiles
Sebastiane Hegarty
Sebastiane is an artist and lecturer. His creative practice is primarily time-based and interdisciplinary in nature, including: sound, installation, photography, performance, drawing and text. His research interests are concerned with memory through an exploration of the relationship between time, place and sensation: most recently this has focused on acoustic ecology and the perceptual geographies of sound and audition. His essay, Lets hear what we can see, accompanies the DVD release of Guy Sherwin’s Optical Sound Films (Lux: London, 2008).
Exhibiting in a wide range of media, Sebastiane is currently working with Hampshire Wildlife Trust on a year-long project resulting in the production of sound walk for the Winnall Moors Reserve in Hampshire. He was also recently commissioned to produce a haptic graphic score for the Masz project by voice artist Yvon Bonenfant. Previously his sound work featured in FrammentAzioni at the TEM Contemporanea Festival (Udine: Italy, 2008) and his international collaborative phonographic project mon(nu)ment, included re-recordings by Lasse-marc Riek, Lawrence English, Patrick Mcginley Matt Rogalsky and others: A live recording of the project was performed at The Arcola Theatre, London in 2008.
Sebastiane received his PhD from the Sculpture Department of Winchester School of Art at The University of Southampton in 2003. He lives and work in Winchester, England