Lincoln Seligman was born in London in 1950. He was educated at Harrow School, Balliol College, and finally Oxford, where he read jurisprudence. In 1973, he passed the bar and was called to practise as a lawyer. Then, in 1980, facing the irresistible pull of art, Seligman abandoned his legal career and became a professional painter and sculptor.
World-renowned for his large-scale sculptures and murals, Seligman’s locations of choice are public places of transit: atrium spaces, airports and other transportation hubs around the world welcome his monumental, suspended mobiles made of steel, glass or textiles.
Such commissions can be found at Schroders, The Prudential, BAA, Battersea Reach, Chelsea Harbour, Broadgate, Swiss Bank, GlaxoSmithKline, the HQ of Cathay Pacific, Kowloon station on Hong Kong’s MTR, SWIRES, the Sing Pao Building, the East Hotel, the Westin Taipei Hotel, Royal Caribbean, and Phoenix City Beijing.
His paintings can be found in the following collections; Duke of Devonshire, Duke of Roxburghe, Ian Paisley, Royal Palace Riyadh, Chanel, Tiffany, Laurent Perrier, Paul Simon, Flemings and Standard Chartered Bank.
Seligman also worked as a set designer for the Bright Young Things ballet for the New English Ballet Theatre with Dutch choreographer Ernst Meisner, which premiered in July 2012 at Peacock Theatre, Sadler’s Wells, London; and for Kreutzer Sonata’ for the New English Ballet Theatre gala at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, which premiered in October 2013.
