About 12 years ago, Sefton walked away from a successful career in the hotel industry to see if he could make a living as an artist. Eventually people started noticing. His work moved from community exhibitions into professional galleries. Artists residencies and critical acclaim soon followed. Now he's taken things up another level, with his first exhibition in a public gallery. 'Clear my throat' at the Pah Homestead in Auckland.
Radio NZ Interview with Jesse Mulligan on the Bookmarks program

His first institutional solo exhibition, Clear My Throat, is now showing at Pah Homestead in Tamaki Makaurau until 15 November. The show uses industrial and hard materials across large sculptures and installations, and curator Dina Jezdic has placed it in dialogue with the colonial history of the homestead itself.
Sefton Rani Radio NZ Interview with Perlina Lau on the Culture 101 program

The power of Sefton Rani’s work is that it offers neither escape from reality nor an amplification of its anxieties.
It restores our ability to encounter the world in all its intricacy—to recognise that acceptance of imperfection is the condition of humanity.
Written by Dina Jezdić for the Arts House Trust

Rani often speaks of the “scent” of history lingering within materials, describing an atmospheric archive, a sensorial trace of ancestral presence that guides, unsettles, and accompanies his making.

Written by Billie Lythberg for the McCahon House Artist Residency

….raw, powerful and brave.

Written ​by Andrew Paul Wood for Scott Lawrie Gallery

There’s a Hotere-like darkness to the works into which Rani has sunk text into paint coagulated with black iron sand collected from Piha. 

Written by Claire Chamberlain for Takahe Magazine

The work is eclectic. It's scattergun. It's punk. It's gangsta. It's street.

Written by Andrew Paul Wood for Scott Lawrie Gallery

Sefton Rani doesn't hold back - his work packs a punch and delves deeply into contexts that are helping him forge his own path.

Written by Dina Jezdic for The Big Idea

Sefton Rani is keeping it real - the Toipoto visual artist shares his words of wisdom on what he's learned while turning his passion into his career.

Written by Sefton Rani studio for The Big Idea