Matt Sewell

When not drawing on things or looking at the stars, i play a guitar

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I was chosen by Paul Smith to show in his amazing store in Tokyo last year. They did a great job with the ceiling dont you think.

One off water colours for sale in the shop

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St. Just Vigilantes:  “ Pastor of Oaks, Shepherd of Stones” (TF 001)

Transparent Face and Static Caravan are proud to present “Pastor of Oaks, Shepherd of Stones”, the debut release from St. Just Vigilantes.

Clocking in at 55 minutes, this blotter paper cascade is the work of Little Sparta’s Alan Boyd and Jonathan Twilight Orr, an erstwhile Irish Jihadi with a cape of crystal visions.

Having met in the rainforests of British Columbia some twenty years ago, it was not until late 2007 that the Jihadi climbed into his balloon and set course for Roman Londinium, floating for months before descending upon the Spartan in his clockwork tower. For one week they popped and fizzed, refracting light through hopeful wires and broken instruments to conjure this work of alchemical beauty. And what a joyfully peculiar creature it is.

Pastor of Oaks, is a shape-shifting dervish where pop mantras melt into vespers for broken angles and hymns for the dream brigades. It’s a cactus trance of ancient metronomes, ESP murmurs and pomegranate flavoured candy canes; kaleidoscopic drift giving voice to ashtray throwing poltergeists, grooving as they do, twisting the night away. An unborn baby’s heart beats next to a flurry of incandescent splendour and the vigilantes quote the poet Rumi as they stumble and skip. Histories without words are the cords that bind and (for now) Just is patron saint of opiate mystics; Sufi Strung Out, Shepherd of Stones.

This is a unique piece of genuinely progressive music that draws in a huge range of ideas and influences to create a long player that will appeal to fans of everything from Turkish field recordings and pagan folk to the skewed pop of the Flaming Lips and Granddaddy. Electronics and terrestrial instruments come together, blending songs with tone poems and wide-eyed melodies; at once beguiling and compelling, this release sets the trajectory for both St. Just Vigilantes and Transparent Face, a no nonsense boutique for home listeners and astral ramblers.

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“Home fires and Deep Dales” is my first ever show never mind solo show in my homelands of County Durham. I was commissioned by Durham County Council to produced 4 new artworks depicting the Land of Prince Bishops (Co. Durham). So i took a trip down memory lane a visited my childhood haunts and areas that hold a special place in my heart.The show features these and many more new paintings, drawing and prints all taking place in the amazing DLI museum.

DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery
Aykley Heads Durham DH1 5TU
0191 384 2214

Visit their site for more details

more blurb::

Homefires and Deepdales presents a series of new works by Matt Sewell inspired by his home county of Durham alongside a collection of recent works and commissions. For Matt, growing up in County Durham has had an great impact on his work

‘Having a father who would joyfully wake me up at the crack of sparrows to take me on many a magical mystery tour of the county’s nature spots, has without a shadow of a doubt influenced and inspired my artwork through out my career’ 

Homefires and Deepdales is part Design Event 08 the North East’s annual design festival. Go to  www.design-event.co.uk for more information.

Love Design agency in Manchester from a few years ago. Thanks Chris.

Photography by Tim Sinclair

3 double-page-spreads for Range Rover’s Onelife Magazine.

Greg from San Deigo got this painting from 2004 inked on to his arm. I feel honoured, much love.

From the city to the sticks.

East Office Architects - Brisbane, Australia 2008

October issue of Zest Magazine

New You booklet for NHS Barking & Dagenham by Raw Design. A great booklet aimed at teenagers about child obesity.

Thanks to Jugglers in Brisbane for letting me shake the rust of my cosmonaut suit and get cosmic in their backyard.

 Zest Magazine commissioned me for two double-page spreads of deep-space-cosmic joy. Fantastic

Taxi rank and the dopest taxi ever. Trang, Thailand 05.08 
 

 The sharp eyed nature spotists out there might of guessed from this posti’m in Australia. To be precise, in Brisbane in the sunshine state of Queensland. All is great and teh creative juices are flowing. Thanks to everyone who keeps checking back.I promise there will be lots to see in the forth coming weeks.  

Hello, sorry for the lack in posts, i have been in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore with my lovely lady and a host of merry adventurers. Here is a small work deep in the jungle on the (small) Perhentian Islands that i made with Mr Zen Rock. I am in Australia at the mo, still drawing and working lots.. Pics of all the weird animals i have managed to get close enough too will be up on my flickr site very soon… Its been a blast so far and its only gonna get better X

Sneak peak from an up-coming exhibition in Durham, Home fires and Deep Dales. Based only my County Durham childhood haunts and inspirations.

 I was asked by James & Joe who are art directing the next issue of  The Illustrated Ap to submit a self portrait.View large