Bio
Jefford’s multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, drawing, painting, writing and video, yet his open-ended approach often yields hybrid forms that elude categorisation. Working with recurring materials and repurposed everyday objects, his pieces frequently carry the uncanny familiarity of scaled-up miniatures or pseudo-functional props—objects that might belong to some alternate educational display or speculative world-building model.
Exhibitions
2025
Toy (solo)Galerie Noah Klink Berlin DE
Passengers Worse London, UK
competence and decency (solo) Galleri Opdahl Stavanger, NO
The Sleeping Procession Cass Sculpture Foundation Goodwood, UK
When Two or More Come Together SWG3 Studios Glasgow, UK
2023
The Living World of Animals (solo) Gianni Manhattan Vienna, AT
Amid The Alien Corn KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, DE
2022
Optimised Fables about a Good Life PLATO Ostrava, CZ
Sentiment, Sediment (solo) Galleri Opdahl Stavanger, NO
DES CHAMPS DE FRAISES POUR L’ÉTERNITÉ La Galerie, centre d'art contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec FR
Group show Rob Tufnell Venice, IT
2021
Severance Gianni Manhattan Vienna, AT
The Medieval and The Minimal Beckys Berlin, DE
Corps Mamoth London, UK
Natural Gas (solo) Liebaert Projects Kortrijk, BE
Frieze London (solo) Gianni Manhattan
2020
Invitation To Love Kunstverein Bremerhaven Bremerhaven, DE
This Margin Will Be Your Vantage Point In Situ Fabienne Leclerc Paris, FR
This Tragedy Fonda Leipzig, DE
2019
Gubbinal Project Native Informant London, UK
Liste (solo) Gianni Manhattan Basel, CH
Out of eye Laure Genillard London, UK
2018
CITADEL Open Forum Berlin, DE
Procrustean Flatulence (solo) Gianni Manhattan Vienna, AT
Ties & Fries (two person show with Gina Fischli) Her London, UK
Doors of Paradise Union Pacific London, UK
V22 Young London V22 Silvertown Studios London, UK
Le Bel Été Noire Gallery Turin, IT
Mantel Copperfield Gallery London, UK
Unearthing Becky's London, UK
2017
Vehicular Reliquary House RA Schools Show London, UK
Romancing The Biscuit (solo) Lock Up International London, UK
Lived In Galleri Opdahl Opdahl, NO
RA Schools Degree Show Royal Academy Schools London, UK
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On The Bedpost Overnight) J Hammond Projects London, UK
2016
Modest Villa Immense Versailles Kinman London,
A Rose Is Without a 'Why'. It Blooms Because It Blooms, curated by Sean Steadman, Carl Freedman London, UK
Bloomberg New Contemporaries The Bluecoat Liverpool, and ICA, UK
Suggest The Shape of the Wind Nam Project Milan, IT
Premiums Royal Academy of Arts London, UK
2015
Qwaypurlake Hauser & Wirth Somerset Bruton, UK
Chimp Cracks Nut With Rock (To What Extent Is It Asking a Question?), curated by Sean Steadman, The Kennington Residency London, UK
2014
Backteller (solo) Gowlett Peaks London, UK
This Inferior Mirage (solo) Cactus Liverpool, UK
Waking up a shape The Woodside Press Bristol, UK
Bending Light Home-Platform Bristol, UK
2013
Records of Garden Keeping (solo) Works|Projects Bristol, UK
Surface Area, curated by Lauren Christiansen Favourite Goods Los Angeles, US
Performance Fetish, curated by Its Our Playground SWG3 Glasgow, UK
Dumb Shadow Supercollider Blackpool, UK
Flatfile: A Demonstration of Possiblities Eastside Projects Birmingham, UK
2012
Enlighten us, but make it quick New Gallery London, UK
Exhibition Z-Shed Bristol, UK
2011
Soft Laminate (two person show with Orion Martin) Horton Gallery Berlin, DE
Berlin UDK Rundgang Universität der Künste Berlin Berlin, DE
Interesting Results (two person show with Jackson Bateman) 8 Week Gallery Bristol, UK
2010
Café Royal Books Pop-up Library PR1 Gallery Preston, UK
Rascals In Paradise Warehouse Weston Super Mare, UK
Super Salon Sale Bristol Diving School Bristol, UK
CV
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- MOUSSE 2022
- Liebaert Projects Kortrijk 2021
- émergent magazine 2021
- Art Review 2018
- e-flux Vienna 2018
Works
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Sebastian Jefford The boy looking at the flower not looking at the boy 2025
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Sebastian Jefford Choo choo, choo choo 2025 Pen on paper 127 × 31 cm (framed) × 12 1/4 inches (framed)
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Sebastian Jefford Class Photo 2025 pen on paper 170 × 53 cm 66 7/8 × 20 7/8 inches
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Sebastian Jefford Life cycle of a maggot 2025 Pen on paper 43 × 31 cm (framed) 16 7/8 × 12 1/4 inches (framed)
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Sebastian Jefford Repeat the lie, that makes it true 2023 Acrylic and India ink on canvas 150 × 95 cm 59 × 37 3/8 inches
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Sebastian Jefford The vile stuff 2023 60 × 50 × 60 cm 23 5/8 × 19 5/8 × 23 5/8 inches
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Sebastian Jefford Clock Test (age unknown) 3 2022 Polyurethane foam, acrylic, wool 120 × 120 × 4 cm 47 1/4 × 47 1/4 × 1 5/8 inches
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Sebastian Jefford 1 : 254,838 2021
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Sebastian Jefford Looping 2021 Perspex, used tyres, cereal, epoxy resin, dust
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Sebastian Jefford Buffering: Ship of fools 2021
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Sebastian Jefford Buffering: pious about ignorance 2020 Polyurethane foam, acrylic, snap fasteners, wood
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Sebastian Jefford Echoes down the hall 2019
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Sebastian Jefford Sometimes I can’t tell if you’re my world or my Wilson 2018 Polyurethane foam, acrylic, latex, waste pipes, plastic snaps, plaster bandage, chicken wire, woven polypropylene, biro 155 × 125 × 60 cm 61 × 49 1/4 × 23 5/8 inches
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Sebastian Jefford Vehicular Reliquary House 2017
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Sebastian Jefford Pangea 2016