Honoured that my portrait Nick Cave - Wild God is in the Flying Circus exhibition at the Unitarian Church on New Road, part of Brighton Art Fair/@brightonfringe.bsky.social, until 30th May www.visitbrighton.com/whats-on/fly...

'The cancel culture employed by the Ministry of Justice: the pitchforkers who moralistically wail through their keyboards from all sorts of political directions, now prevalent on the left and the right, purity spirals abound' In Empowering The Innocent empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/website/post...

Not the clearest photos of my paintings This Is Not A Vape Pen and Dead Sparrow At DFS, but the lighting at The Etch Collective's 'Utility' exhibition is VERY dramatic On until this Friday 22nd May, 117 New Cross Road, London Better view: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/art/Pa...

Philip Speakman Webb Designing Standen House (2026) Prints and more paintings available here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

'Critics have described her approach as a “feminism of fear” and argued that her focus on male “perpetrators” creates an inaccurate image of society' The resignation of Jess Phillips - in DAVIA/SAVE endtodv.org/pr/westminst...

Raved about, Becket-baiting Waiting For Texto by @aideenmcqueen.bsky.social comes to Brighton Fringe on Thursday 21st May 'A parodic interactive comedy exploring the "existential hopelessness only being left on read can provoke"' - @theskinnymag.bsky.social www.brightonfringe.org/events/waiti...

DARLING at Spiegel Gardens, 19th-20th May 2026, part of the Brighton Fringe Festival 'A Regency-inspired immersive circus spectacle that blends aerial performances, physical theatre, and playful comedy' Old-school burlesque in the heart of Brighton? We will see - Free Entry

Honoured that my ode to Magritte and John Lydon This Is Not A Vape Pen and Dead Sparrow At DFS are part of The Etch Collective's UTILITY exhibition at 117 New Cross Rd, London until 22nd May @SaatchiArt, where they can be found, have a sale on now: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

With Eurovision upon us, thoughts turn to Jonathan King, who was the last person to produce the show when it was 'important' But, cancelled? 31,700 monthly JK listeners for speaks for itself - truly excellent pop album in link open.spotify.com/album/7h8qJO...

'Feminism is nowhere uglier than in its blithe dehumanization of those it deems oppressors, especially at the moment when the once powerful and respected are recognized as vulnerable' Janice Fiamengo on the dangers of calling a reporter 'good lookin'' open.substack.com/pub/fiamengo...

'The finding of “dangerousness,” which led to a significantly extended sentence, was based in part on untested hearsay relating to a separate, later relationship. This material was not subject to cross-examination' John Lee Osborne in ETI empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/website/post...

My Mother Anna (2026) More original paintings and prints here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

I spoke to Marsha Sturgeon of the JIMS (Justice for Innocent Men Scotland) campaign about the alleged wrongful conviction of her partner, police/CPS tactics of 'bundling and trawling', and more - for Empowering The Innocent (ETI) TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=etWa...

'We all manipulate other people all the time, mostly for good reason and sometimes for bad. The problems come when the bad is ascribed almost exclusively to males and the good almost exclusively to females' Felicity Stryjak in Empowering The Innocent empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/website/post...

My painting Dartmoor is published in the current issue of @meansmagazine.bsky.social mag, along with a brilliant essay on the state of the digital music industry and why it's impossible to be a truly 'independent' artist inside it, by Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully meansmagazine.com/current-issue/

Many thanks to @verygrubby for adding Turn You Upside Down, from the recent Istanbul reissue, to their Rock Spotlight playlist! Have a listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/70d...

Honoured that the Garfield Lake Review literary magazine (at Olivet University, US) has used my recent painting Dad & Carol as front and back cover of their 2026 edition! Excellent poetry, short stories and more art, see here: www.garfieldlakereview.com/recent

"Being mindful of the warning ‘Never meet your heroes’, when his management somehow heard about it and proffered an interview with him, I demurred. Besides, I knew that I was a truly terrible interviewer" Julie Burchilll on Morrissey open.substack.com/pub/juliebur...

'I am passionate about this, I suspect Neil Young is too. I wait to see AI write a song like “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” or “The Needle and the Damage Done”' Where do I begin with... @neilyoungarchives.bsky.social, by @bethiabeadman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/bestfitm...

'Prof. Maruna’s response, delivered from the seventh floor of the worldwide hub of culture that is the BBC, was clear: “We can’t DO desistance if we abandon the arts”' What happens if the art stops? - in Inside Time insidetime.org/comment/what...

'Bembridge doesn’t campaign. He doesn’t reform. He simply reminds a nervous, sanitised world that no spaces are safe. The devil never had to pull any trick. He simply put on a Panama hat and stood for council' Jay Mack - Comedian open.substack.com/pub/jaymackc...

'Media stories are fed to us without our consent, by increasingly homogenised and determined forces. My ambiguous takes try to present these figures and stories back to the viewer in my own style' New interview - in @thefluxreview www.thefluxreview.com/sean-bw-park...

Handmaids At Golgotha (2026) Prints available and more paintings here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

My portrait of David Lynch, bizarrely completed a couple of weeks before he died in 2025, is at The Brighton Box Open Houses in Dukes Lane every weekend in May, surrounded by much Pop Art Expressionism Prints available at Saatchi Art: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/art/Pa...

I love it when my paintings find their proper home Here's The Preston-Voiles At The Beach, now at my old schoolfriend Zea's house (for it is she, with beau) More art here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

"The autism spectrum is now so inclusive, she said, it has effectively ‘collapsed’. It has become meaningless" Dave Clements cites Uta Frith in new book The Crisis In The Classroom, in Academy of Ideas open.substack.com/pub/clairefo...

Delighted that my portraits of John Cleese and Piers Morgan (unblock me on X, Piers) will be included in The Motive of the Puppeteer exhibition at this year's Bath Fringe Festival, from 22nd May to 6th June Thank you @bathfringe.co.uk! www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/puppet

'Amu Gib is running for a seat on Islington Council as a representative of the Islington Community Independents. Gib has been on remand at HMP Bronzefield since last July, charged with offences arising from a Palestine Action protest' Political Prisoner! insidetime.org/newsround/ca...

My Turkish Playlist - featuring Athena, Baris Manco, Yasemin Mori, Direc-t, etc. If you're curious about Turkish ska, prog and grunge, worth a spin Pic is of the self-customised telecaster I played while living in Istanbul open.spotify.com/playlist/1iL...

Advert for my last book Panopticon (poetry) on Hunsbury Press, in the current edition of MEANS magazine "Rusty Brutalism" - Jay Mack Comedian hunsburypress.com/books/panopt... #panopticon #poetrybooks

The Preston-Voiles At The Beach (2026) Prints and more art available here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

Honoured that my painting Cervus Elaphus has been included in the Spring 2026 issue of The Gilded Weathervane, by Farmgirl Press Available here: www.farmgirlpress.com/store/p/spri...

Delighted that my track Spit It Out - originally about stammering, but turning into something quite different - from recently reissued Transport EP, has been added to the Music Victory playlist on Spotify Thank you @music__victory! Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/7Ig...

'Jeremy Bamber's battle against an impossible system' The Impossible Fight for Freedom - new video by Bamber vs The Doc Maker open.substack.com/pub/thedocma...

Happy St George's Day BlueSky! Pic: Check Your Thinking (2025) www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

I'm moving home/studio, and sadly can't take most of my remaining unsold paintings with me So I've drastically reduced their prices, in what I understand is called a 'sale'. It's this or a bonfire And do share, to prevent a massive act of self-art-vandalism: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

'Melanie Gill’s real offence, and what so clearly infuriated her detractors, was to violate the narrative: to refuse to go along with the feminist default – that in family breakdowns the mother is almost invariably a victim' Frank Haviland www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-lynching...

Fashion designer-turned-Innocence Artist Nicole Farhi in interview on page 44 of Restoration Conversations magazine www.yumpu.com/en/document/...

Recent documentary Salt In The Milk - Ten Years In Istanbul about my time in the city (2004-2014) by Karl Ertunc of Indiestanbul Photo: me with Sarah Blackwood of Dubstar before my band supported her at Istanbul's Roxy venue www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGgy...

'The most far-reaching distortions now embedded in children’s lives through state and family-law structures are the insistence that sex is negotiable, and that erasing one parent, often the father, from children’s lives is OK' Melanie Gill www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-a-state-...

'At least one complainer in my fiance's case had made false allegations before, and I think it's vital information for the jury to consider before they reach their verdict - don't you think?' Masha Sturgess to Sharon Dowey MSP - in Empowering The Innocent empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/website/post...

Honoured that my poem A Baptismal Feast has been published on page 24 in the current issue of Infocalypse magazine, alongside many excellent pieces: www.infocalypse.press/issue-2-with... My recent poetry collection Panopticon is available at Hunsbury Press here: hunsburypress.com/books/panopt...

'Those I had been led to believe were terrible intolerant bigots turned out to be generally way more open minded. Even when I told them I had voted Remain, they still treated me with courtesy' Clowns to the left of @GenxAnecdotes, jokers to the right open.substack.com/pub/genxanec...

Blue Monday (2025) Inspired by the New Order song of the same name Prints and more paintings here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw... @sonicpr.bsky.social

Thank you to Music Victory for adding my track Turn You Upside Down (from my recently reissued debut album Istanbul) to their Alternative Rock playlist! Truly honoured - and check out the other tracks on their list in link Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/5Mk...

Honoured that my 2025 painting Old Man On The Tube Reading Solzhenitsyn has been included alongside many fascinating pieces in The Fragmented Body exhibition at @hausarest.bsky.social Scroll down here: www.haus-a-rest.com/issue-70-exh...

Delighted that my recent painting Saints Preserve Us And We Them (2026), originally painted for Sundial magazine, has been selected as a Finalist in TERVARNA's 14th Open Exhibition See winners and other finalists here: www.teravarna.com/winners-2026...

"This system-wide takeover by social goodwill of course affected what art ‘looked like’, in the ubiquitous vernacular of irritatingly contagious journalese" Post-Progressive Art - by Sean Bw Parker open.substack.com/pub/seanbwpa...

James Bembridge (2026) Writer, humorist, editor and all round London-flaneur Prints and more artworks available here: www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/seanbw...

Had enough of pretending to enjoy AI slop? My drawing ARIA is included in the new Animal Artspace drawing exhibition, alongside many wonderful pictures of various fauna Virtual stroll (but no AI): www.artsteps.com/view/69ca35e...