Shaun C. Badham

Shaun C. Badham is an artist based in South Essex, working across a variety of media, processes and contexts. His project-based practice explores notions of the discarded in objects, structures, places and histories, and how a form of site-responsive re-imagining can take place. Through a series of observations, the overlooked can generate long-term durational projects, worked through a task-driven, pragmatist mentality to create a new understanding of our relationship to space. Through artistic interventions and public activation, established societal categories such as ownership and intended use are challenged and transformed.

The PLOT and EDGELANDS projects trace the rise and fall of the Basildon Plotlanders, a back-to-the-land, self-build community displaced when the area was designated a new town in 1946, and the policies that followed.

He gained an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2017, following a first-class BA in Fine Art from the University of the West of England, Bristol in 2012 and an Erasmus exchange at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. His work has been shown at Henry Moore Studios, Firstsite in Colchester, The Old Waterworks in Southend-on-Sea, Metal Peterborough, House of Annetta in London and the Glasgow Gallery of Photography.