Benjamin Sewell

Benjamin Sewell was born in Esperance, Western Australia. He completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts, Curtin University, WA; a Diploma of Visual Arts and a Graduate Diploma at Australian National University, Canberra. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. In 2006 Sewell was awarded the prestigious Tom Malone Prize from the Art Gallery of Western Australia. In 2005 and 2007 he received a New Work Development Grant from the Visual Arts and Crafts Board of the Australia Council. Benjamin Sewell's work in part of numerous important public and private collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia; La Salle SIA College of the Arts and Fort James Paper, Chicago, USA.

Benjamin Sewell's work engages with landscape and the intellect, investigating notions of a sense of place between the individual and the landscape. The objects he creates draw on the essence of what the landscape represents, describing that experience through the emotive qualities of space, light and texture. He references these elements using intuitive mark making to articulate qualities that have a resonance to the land.

Sewell initially establishes a solid foundation in the strength of the form. He then builds upon this developing the surface with graphic qualities. Either side of each piece is hand-worked to create a sense of unity among the various parts which brings out the natural interplay of the surface and light as intrinsic virtues of glass.