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Sean Burns is an artist, editor and writer. He is the director of the film Dorothy Towers and the co-founder of Queer Street Press, an independent publishing imprint. He writes extensively on art and culture and sits on an advisory council at Tate. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London, and Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. His work has appeared at venues internationally, including Auto Italia and the British Film Institute, London; Edinburgh Art Festival; TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway; the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts, Sussex; and Goswell Road, Paris. In 2023, Tate Publishing released his book, Death, which explores the relationships between life, love and mortality in art. In 2024, he received a residency and development grant from Montez Press. He lives in London and is an associate editor of frieze.
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