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seema mattu

world~building trickster

Seema Mattu is a Valmiki world-building artist, whose multimodal practice follows the logic of a speculative theme park - known as SEEMAWORLD.

With its own internal lore, SEEMAWORLD is hosted by fantastical deities who act as vessels for interweaving strands of output. Rooted in British South Asian culture (and its relationship to Birmingham), speculative storytelling unfolds through immersive real life environments, sculpture, mixed-media animation, moving image and an emergent folk sound. These works combine filmic, sonic and spatial spectacle to explore and subvert complex themes centring: systems of caste, queer desire and technological iterations (and reiterations) of thing and self.

Seema’s work has been shown widely, including projects with: Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, New Art City, Blindspot Gallery (Hong Kong), Film London (FLAMIN Fellowship 2021-2022), and Wysing Arts Centre (2023 Residency). In 2021, she was awarded an International Digital Fellowship at QUAD (Derby), leading to her first solo show in 2023. She has been an Incidental Artist at Eastside Projects (Birmingham) since 2024 and will launch a solo exhibition in 2026 - which will evolve across FACT (Liverpool) in 2026 and Focal Point Gallery (Southend-on-Sea) in 2027.

character library

Explore SEEMAWORLD’s collection of original characters, featured in films, novels, moving image, games and more - among multiple strands throughout the eras.

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deities

Through its own lore, SEEMAWORLD is a sanctuary for fantastical deities who act as vessels and / or guardians of each strand responsible for a different area of output.

gorge

earth

youterus

boon

syahi

the maternal

SEEMAWORLD deities were co-designed with artist / illustrator mis.sludge in October 2024.

faqs

  • SEEMAWORLD is a conceptual theme park of combined spectacle, community and narrative. This fantastical multiverse is led by multi-disciplinary world-building artist and director, Seema Mattu, born and based in Birmingham, UK.

    SEEMAWORLD operates through interweaving strands - which each transcend specialisms in: film, moving image, 3D animation, sound design, sculpture and performance.

  • SEEMAWORLD LTD has been a Limited Company since October 2017 under company no. 11020276.

    Initially set up to become a resource platform, peer-to-peer marketplace and space for creative production, this entity metamorphosised into SEEMAWORLD in 2021.

  • Ultimately, SEEMAWORLD exists where Seema does, so: anywhere (but is based in Birmingham, UK - where much of Seema’s inspiration comes from).

    Alongside Seema’s own multi-modal practice, SEEMAWORLD is an ongoing, participatory world-building platform, so also holds space for: research, criticality, collaboration, making and showcasing. This has been made especially possible by securing a physical location at The Old Print Works, Birmingham, since April 2025.

  • latest CV? here

  • latest portfolio? here

  • 3D models included on this website, in some recent film projects and as part of ongoing research and development have been made with Scaniverse.