Jarman Award winner, Lindsay Seers’ (b. 1968, Mauritius) work embraces complexity—both in form and methodology—manifesting through fragmented, layered narratives that intertwine staged and natural speech. Diagnosed with autism, her neurodivergent perspective informs an aesthetic characterized by intensity, multiplicity, and formal experimentation. Her work explores excess not merely as a stylistic choice, but as an epistemological stance.
At the core of her practice is a fundamental inquiry into consciousness—its operations, illusions, and structures. She explores how the narratives we construct to explain our actions often emerge after the fact, echoing the implications of Libet’s findings: that actions may precede conscious thought. In this view, storytelling is less about truth and more about the retroactive construction of justification. Seers’ works are not stand-ins or symbolic proxies—they possess energy in and of themselves. Responding to social and political imperatives, they frequently take the form of multifaceted installations, operating at the intersection of the virtual and the actual, the staged and the spontaneous.
She has presented large-scale works internationally at institutions including SMK (National Gallery of Denmark), the 2015 Venice Biennale, Hayward Gallery (UK), MONA (Tasmania), Bonniers Konsthall (Sweden), Smart Project Space (Amsterdam), Kiasma (Finland), Turner Contemporary (UK), Tate Triennial (UK), TPW (Canada), Sami Centre for Art (Norway), Centre for Contemporary Art (Poland), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (UK), the Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE), Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (Taiwan), and E-Werk (Germany).
Her works are held in several major collections, including Tate, Arts Council Collection, Artangel, MONA (Tasmania), the Government Art Collection (UK), MTA Collection (Lebanon), and numerous private collections across Europe, North America, and beyond.
Seers has received a number of prestigious awards and grants, including Sharjah Art Foundation Production Award (UAE) Le Jeu de Paume Production Award (France);Paul Hamlyn Award; Derek Jarman Award; AHRC and multiple Wellcome Trust Awards; British Council and Arts Council England grants; Wingate Scholarship (British School at Rome, 2007/08)
The Jarman Award was exhibited as part of a curated programme of international artists’ moving image by Keith Whittle with support from Film London.
