Sebastian Lloyd Rees

Photo: Chris Kontos

About

Sebastian Lloyd Rees (b. 1986, Stavanger, Norway) is an artist based between Athens and London. With the artist Ali Eisa, he is part of an ongoing collaboration known as Lloyd Corporation.

Since completing his BA at Goldsmiths in 2010, Lloyd Rees’s painting has evolved through several distinct stages; all of which interrogate the ways in which painting can articulate the subjective interactions between the artist and the ever-changing built and natural environments that he has called home.

In his first major series, the Hoarding Works (2014–2018), Lloyd Rees worked with repurposed wooden boards that had been recovered from the hoarding around construction sites in London and New York. In 2020, after moving to Athens, Lloyd Rees developed a more lyrical visual language to reflect his emerging relationship with the Mediterranean, culminating in the Black Paintings (2021–2023) – the subject of a solo exhibition at Vardaxoglou in the Autumn of 2023.

Lloyd Rees continues to chart this relationship with the Stonehouse series (2024–), which includes both paintings and works on paper and takes significant inspiration from the poetry of Shiwu, or Stonehouse, a 13th-century hermit who lived in the mountains of Yushan, China.

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Selected Works

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    Hoarding ( Peckham Rye Lane, 14 August 09:26 GMT - 2014), 2014
    industrial paint, pollution, plywood
    200 x 520 cm
    78 3/4 x 204 3/4 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    Hoarding, (Rathbone Street 12 July 23:12 GMT - 2015), 2015
    industrial paint, plywood, pollution
    200 x 350 cm (two panels : 200 x 175cm each)
    78 3/4 x 137 3/4 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    Hoarding ( Kings Cross St Pancras 27th September 13:15 GMT - 2014)
    industrial paint, pollution, plywood, in 5 parts overall
    200 x 700 cm
    78 3/4 x 275 5/8 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    Hoarding, (94 North Street, 26th September 20:08 GMT - 2016), 2016
    industrial paint, pollution, plywood
    200 x 122 cm
    78 3/4 x 48 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    Short, medium and long-term” (2010 - 2081), 2016
    industrial paint, pollution, plywood
    200 x 122 cm
    78 3/4 x 48 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    Hoarding, (94 North Street, 26th September 20:08 GMT - 2016 / Nine Elms Lane, 17th September 01:20 GMT - 2016), 2016
    industrial paint, pollution, plywood
    200 x 157 cm
    78 3/4 x 61 3/4 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    Hoarding, (Taylor Wimpey - Millbrook Park, 5th September 10.47 GMT - 2017), 2017
    Industrial paint, plywood, pollution
    200 × 172 cm
    78 x 68 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    Hoarding, (Plumtree Ct, 26th January 12:08 GMT - 2018), 2018
    industrial paint, pollution, plywood
    200 x 173 cm
    78 3/4 x 68 1/8 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    Hoarding, (Bekton sewage treatment works, 5th January 12.13 GMT - 2018 / Taylor Wimpey - Millbrook Park, 5th September 10.52 GMT - 2017), 2018
    Industrial paint, plywood, pollution
    200 x 174 cm
    78 x 68 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    Hoarding, (707 - 701, E 241 ST, Bronx NY 10470, 19th September 13:53 EST, 2018), 2018
    industrial paint, pollution, plywood
    200 x 173 cm
    78 3/4 x 68 1/8 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    Hoarding, (24, South Street, Mt Vernon, NY 10550, 10th September 05:03 EST, 2018), 2018
    Industrial paint, plywood, pollution
    200 × 174 cm
    78 3/4 x 68 1/8 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    Hoarding, (116S, Terrace Ave, Mt Vernon, NY 10550, 27th September 18:02 EST, 2018)
    Industrial paint, plywood, pollution
    200 × 174 cm
    78 3/4 x 68 1/8 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    In Beauty It Is Finished, 2021-2023
    oil and acrylic on wood
    250 x 250 cm
    98 3/8 x 98 3/8 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    A Rose in The Spotlight, 2021-2023
    oil and acrylic on wood
    250 x 250 cm
    98 3/8 x 98 3/8 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    Songs Without Words, 2021-2023
    oil and acrylic on wood
    250 x 250 cm
    98 3/8 x 98 3/8 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    A hundred years slip by unnoticed, 1, 2024–25
    graphite on Saunders Waterford paper
    Sheet size: 
    120 x 80 cm
    47 1/4 x 31 1/2 ins
    Framed size:
    140 x 100 x 4.5 cm
    55 1/8 x 39 3/8 x 1 3/4 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    A hundred years slip by unnoticed, 3, 2024–25
    graphite on Saunders Waterford paper
    Sheet size: 
    120 x 80 cm
    47 1/4 x 31 1/2 ins
    Framed size:
    140 x 100 x 4.5 cm
    55 1/8 x 39 3/8 x 1 3/4 ins

  • Sebastian Lloyd Rees
    A hundred years slip by unnoticed, 5, 2024–25
    graphite on Saunders Waterford paper
    Sheet size: 
    120 x 80 cm
    47 1/4 x 31 1/2 ins
    Framed size:
    140 x 100 x 4.5 cm
    55 1/8 x 39 3/8 x 1 3/4 ins

Vardaxoglou Exhibitions

  • Stonehouse

    Sebastian Lloyd Rees

    8 February – 29 March 2025
    Vardaxoglou, London

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  • Eternity and a Day

    Sebastian Lloyd Rees

    15 November – 16 December 2023
    Vardaxoglou, London

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