Seb Xavier
A child of the late nineties, Sebastian Xavier (b. 1996) grew up in Hong Kong where illustration and home-made films became his earliest experiments in storytelling. By his late teens, those experiments had shifted into photography, eventually carrying him to England to study Art & Film at the University of Kent.
After a period working in fashion photography and producing for Haris Nukem, Xavier began building the lavish, narrative driven tableaux that would define his practice. Drawing equally from classical painting, mythology and cinema, his work collides fantasy with critique, reimagining art historical and mythological subjects in the language of contemporary excess.
In recent years, his practice has expanded into mixed media, combining illustration, miniatures, CGI and photography to create increasingly surreal, cinematic worlds. These hybrid dreamscapes have been exhibited internationally and featured widely in magazines, situating Xavier’s work at the threshold between fantasy and social commentary.
An artist and storyteller, Xavier operates between mediums and traditions. His practice borrows freely from mythology, film, art history and popular culture, but reshapes them into new worlds of heightened imagination. The result is a body of work that blurs the boundaries between fantasy and critique, rooted in spectacle yet sharpened with social meaning.
Seb Xavier
A child of the late nineties, Sebastian Xavier (b. 1996) grew up in Hong Kong where illustration and home-made films became his earliest experiments in storytelling. By his late teens, those experiments had shifted into photography, eventually carrying him to England to study Art & Film at the University of Kent.
After a period working in fashion photography and producing for Haris Nukem, Xavier began building the lavish, narrative driven tableaux that would define his practice. Drawing equally from classical painting, mythology and cinema, his work collides fantasy with critique, reimagining art historical and mythological subjects in the language of contemporary excess.
In recent years, his practice has expanded into mixed media, combining illustration, miniatures, CGI and photography to create increasingly surreal, cinematic worlds. These hybrid dreamscapes have been exhibited internationally and featured widely in magazines, situating Xavier’s work at the threshold between fantasy and social commentary.
An artist and storyteller, Xavier operates between mediums and traditions. His practice borrows freely from mythology, film, art history and popular culture, but reshapes them into new worlds of heightened imagination. The result is a body of work that blurs the boundaries between fantasy and critique, rooted in spectacle yet sharpened with social meaning.