
Artform: Game Design
Website: nearlythereyet.com
Petra Szemán is a moving image artist working with animation and game-like landscapes. They are a BA Fine Art graduate from Newcastle University (2013-2017), and has exhibited since at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, Foto museum Winterthur in Switzerland, NTT Inter Communication Centrein Tokyo, as well as various galleries across England, Continental Europe and East-Asia. After spending two years in Japan, developing a body of work as a recipient of a research scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture (2018-2020), Petra is now based between North-East England and Tokyo, Japan. They’re the co-author/editor of WEEB THEORY, a book about the overlapping area between artists’ moving image, games and anime (published by Banner Repeater, London 2023). Petra is a lecturer in the Fine Art department at Newcastle University.
If you’d like to book Petra for a workshop in your school or community group, please contact Joel at [email protected]