Sebastian Moody (b.1979) lives and works in Brisbane where he completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at QUT, and a Master of Museum Studies at the University of Queensland. Moody’s witticisms are well know across Brisbane’s city built-environment like: “the more I think about it the bigger it gets”, and “keep the sunshine”. Moody is interested in not only words but the look of them and where the viewer encounters them, or, as he says, ‘words in their presentation and aesthetic’. He is interested in the slide of meaning, particularly in open ended utterances. He says it’s ‘the moments’, he wants to create ‘not things’. Moody’s painting Opinion Fatigue (chain wave paper spell) feels like what might happen to eliminate for one moment, the overdose of media opinion. We could be left with a sense of outer space, flicking with punctuation. It could be a welcome relief.
Moody’s projects have appeared at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane), Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane), Brisbane International Airport, New York Art Book Fair (New York), Queensland Performing Arts Centre (Brisbane), Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (Sydney), Splendour in the Grass (Byron Bay), Next Wave Festival 2008 (Melbourne), Bus Projects (Melbourne), Firstdraft (Sydney), VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery (Melbourne), Tin Sheds Gallery (University of Sydney), Melbourne Art Book Fair, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts (Melbourne), Bundaberg Arts Centre (Queensland), Museum of Brisbane, The Goodwill Bridge (Brisbane), QUT Art Museum (Brisbane), UQ Art Museum (Brisbane), and Southbank Parklands (Brisbane).
