Biography
Alan Sekers (b. 1947) was a student at Central School of Art. He and Barry Flanagan were both members of the Artists' Placement Group, APG founded by John Latham and Barbara Steveni. In 1971 Sekers and Flanagan worked together on a placement at The Scott Bader Company Ltd, a resin manufacturing firm founded by Ernest Bader, a Swiss visionary and early ecologist. They took a series of photographs which they then filmed using a super-8 camera. A voice over accompanied the film.
Alan Sekers was a student at Saint Martin's School of Art with the artist and later worked in an independent film company called ‘Boom Boom'. In 1967-8 Flanagan drew a felt pen portrait of Sekers which, mistakenly known as ‘Alan Lecker', was presented by the Contemporary Art Society to the Southampton Art Gallery in 1982.
As members of the Artists' Placement Group, Sekers and Flanagan worked for a period in 1971 at The Scott Bader Company Ltd, a resin manufacturing firm and made a slide show with voice-over about their experience there. This was shown at INNO 1970, an exhibition of the Artists' Placement Group at the Hayward Gallery in 1971.