Matt Sewell

I did the logo for Paul Tomlinson’s new site. Well worth a look

I was commissioned a few years ago by Mono to paint their bar. Ive been after a finished picture ever since. My friend Clarke Nova obliged. Thank you kindly good Sir.

Range Rover’s One life Magazine featuring 3 double page spreads

Watercolour illustration for an article in Zest Magazine, about how to make the most of the current recession. Get outside and go play on the swings.

Thanks to Durham County Council and Design Event

Street Art -Rotovision
By Rick Blackshaw and Liz Farrelly, old comrades from my Scrawl Collective early days. Dubious title but a great book, which is an excellent read if you want to delve deeper into what the artists are thinking, techniques and the ups and downs of their artistic journeys. Another hit.

400ml -Kitchen 93
A french book by Gautier Jourdain. Pretty simple concept, 400 spraypaint cans customised by 400 artists for a touring exhibtition. Highlights for me are the Poch and Honet cans. I love the french at the mo, they can do no wrong.

Los Logos 4 - Die Gestalten
Blink and you’ve missed me, but The Wooden Branch logo gets a nice big airing.

Coming soon…

New ones have a looksy

The lovely people at Mixa asked me to do there first artist limited edition Mixa and me being a big thing of all things analogue and mixtapes jumped at the chance. Its basically a cool as a cucumber memory stick in the body of a cassette and i love it.

A percentage of the profits goes to teh Melbourne Bushfire Appeal

Buy it here

Found this pic of a mural i did a few years ago whilst accessing the memory bank. Vikings, dinosaurs, pyramids, ufos, nessie, easter island and a host of other mysical entities, if my memory serves me.

Melbourne

I drew the Mickey. For Rest in Peace in Melbourne

I was asked to do a spacey mix for Mind Space Time go and download it. Your never alone with the drone.
Cover by Leo Krikhaar

Tracklisting:
01. Chocky (Main Theme) - London Weekend Televison
02. Walky Talky - Harmonium
03. Kling Klang - Kraftwerk
04. Opus 777 - Fifty Foot Hose
05. More Like Space - Seefeel
06. Have you seen? - Pluramon
07. Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse - Amon Düül II
08. Unknown
09. Jenny Ondioline - Stereolab
10. Birthday moths - St. Just Vigilantes

New canvases for sale in the shop

Big thanks to everybody how went along to my show at the DLI Museum, i got lots of lovely feedback and new fans (hopefully). Special big thanks to James, Karen, Jess, Mam, Dad and Em

My job is very strange sometimes, like this one. I spent the evening in a 2m x 2m cell in Melbourne Gaol, for the duration of a christmas party with a charming pair of naked ladies. A very strange evening indeed.

Thanks to everyone who came down for the opening night. Heres a selection of pics from some of my new watercolour works

“First there is a mountain”

“Balance” & “Balanced”

“I smell the garden in your hair”

“Cosmic Owls”

“Inner Sky”

Matt Sewell

The art of Matt Sewell is kind of bipolar. On the one hand the UK artist illustrates figures of cute, innocent young girls for big name clients then on the other he throws up dark sinister graf that comes across as a psychy cocktail of THC and LSD. It’s kind of messed up but in a good way. On the eve of his exhibition at Collingwood’s Per Square Metre gallery he explains his two artistic sides.

Your illustrations feature a lot of young girls. Is this just often what a client is after or do you just dig young girls?
Yeah the cute girl thing is a bit of a trademark really, it’s just turned into one of those things that I’m known for and ask to do commercially quite often. It’s not a bad thing to have to specialise in.
Your illustrations feature bright rainbows and young girls while the graf is more dark and pschy. What do you enjoy doing more-or you like both equally?
I love doing the more pyschy stuff at the moment and have been wandering down that road for a few years now. I have found a healthy balance of my personal work being approachable/cheerful and my graf more experimental and psychedelic. Melbourne has been great for my graffiti; Aeon has been the ultimate host, with continuous new spots and six packs. He also can be credited with getting me addicted to Export Paint. That dude loves his Export.

From HR Puff N Stuff to the Teletubbies -wacked out, trippy stuff has often been used alongside cute child like innocence. Is this something you like to explore?
Yeah I love to use that angle in my work. Being a 70’s kid I grew up immersed in that melancholic, psychedelic aesthetic that was infused in kid’s books and animations. Most of the artists I like are from that era or have been directly influenced by it themselves and are exploring that look and feel.
What brings you to Australia?
My girlfriend and I are here for a year travelling around and we’ve been in Melbourne for a few months. We both just wanted to get away from the UK for a while and go somewhere were we could work, get some sunshine and buy souvenirs for our friends made out of Kangaroo’s testicles, so Australia was the obvious choice.

It seems you get to travel a fair bit. Is experiencing new places and people a significant influence on your art?
I love to travel and I guess I’m lucky that my work has got around quite a bit. It’s a massive inspiration especially getting out into the wilderness. We have seen countless breathtaking vistas here and in New Zealand.

I’ve heard that you would like to start a magazine. Who would you feature on your first issue cover?
Nicholas Roerich, the Russian artist and mystic. My lovely girlfriend introduced his Himalayas paintings to me and after some research I discovered he was an immensely spiritual dude with an amazing outlook on life. He led a party beyond the Himalayas in search of Shambala. Some say he found it. Plus his paintings are amazing.

Music is obviously another of your influences. What are you enjoying at the moment?
The Turkish psych of Selda and Erkin Koray has been going down very well over the past year, I tend to go for old folk and prog, Pentangle, Grateful Dead, Sabbath and Led Zep have never been that far away. I’m off to see Silver Apples soon, that’s going to be special. I’m really into drone and have been making my own music for a while; I’m going to buy a sitar when we go to India.

What kind of new works will you be exhibiting at Per Square Metre?
Lots of watercolours of owls, mountains, Vikings, pretty girls and cosmic deep space soul explorations.

Tim Scott

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

Listen here

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

In the shop now

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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