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Ben Sewell

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Artist Statement
The Body of work looks at balance and explores the relationship between opposites. Through the inter playing of the symbiotic nature of opposites, I aim to establish a sense of balance within the whole. I do this by cutting graphic qualities on into the surface of a hand blown glass form to create a sense of the various parts that make the whole.

BORN
	1972	Australia
EDUCATION
	1999	Graduate Diploma, National Institute of the Arts, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
	1997	Diploma of Visual Arts, National Institute of the Arts, ANU Canberra, Australia
	1996	Bachelor of Visual Arts, Curtin University, Western Australia
WORKSHOPS
	2002	The Studio, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, Edols and Elliot (teaching assistant) The Studio, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, Harcuba and Rosol
	1999	Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, USA, Czech Glass, Petr Novotny and Borek Sipek Canberra School of Art, ACT, Australia, Michael Scheiner Workshop
	1997	Canberra School of Art, ACT, Australia, Latitudes, Bullseye workshop (assistant)
	1996	Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia, Lino Tagliapietra, Dante Marioni/ Ben Edols
EXHIBITIONS
	2004	Chappell Gallery, Boston, USA SOFA Chicago, Australian Crafts Council
	2003	SOFA Chicago, Chappell Gallery Beaver Gallery Canberra, Canberra Glass Anna Bibby Gallery Auckland, New Zealand, Australian Glass Canberra Museum and Gallery Canberra, Ranamok Glass Prize Axia Modern Art, Melbourne, Hot Glass 2003. City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Hobart
	2002	Craft West Gallery, Perth, City of Perth Craft Award Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney, Australia, Liquidity, Emerging Artists Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Less is More/ Less is a Bore Chappell Gallery, New York, USA (solo) Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney , Australia, Dialogue, Stephen Procter Traveling Fellowship Chappell Gallery, Boston MA, USA , Cross roads - Australian and New Zealand glass
	2001	SOFA, Chappell Gallery, Chicago, USA. Object Gallery, Australian Center for Craft and Design, Sydney, Australia, Interiors Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney, Australia, Australian Glass Chappell Gallery, New York, USA, Resonance Within Object Gallery, Australian Center for Craft and Design, Sydney, Australia, Formal Qualities
	2000	Chappell Gallery, Boston Massachusetts, USA, Global Village Hsinchu Glass Festival, Hsinchu Municipal Cultural Center, Taiwan, Essentially Canberra Earl Lu Gallery, La Salle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
	1999	Resource Finance Corporation, Sydney, Australia, Touring Exhibition Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney, Australia, New Directions SOFA, Chappell Gallery, New York, USA. Beaver Gallery, ACT, Australia, Canberra Glass National Institute of the Arts, Australian National University, Graduate Exhibition
	1998	Venezia Aperto Vetro, Istituto Statale Del’ Arte, Venice, Italy, Essentially Canberra SOFA, Chicago, USA, Chappell Gallery Craft Fair Munich, Germany, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Talente Australian Representative
AWARDS
	2004	Tom Malone Award, Western Australia, Finalist
	2003	Canberra Museum and Gallery Canberra, Ranamok Glass Prize Finalist
	2002	City of Perth Craft Award, Western Australia, Excellence Award Visual Arts and Craft Board of the Australia Council, Skills and Arts Development Award
	1996	Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, USA, Scholarship SOFA Chicago, IL, USA, Absolute Au Kurant, Juried Invitational of Emerging Talent
COLLECTIONS
		La Salle SIA College of the Arts, Singapore Fort James Paper, Chicago USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
	2002	Object Magazine, The one that grabs the eye, Ann Schilo. Craft Culture, Less is More/ Less is a Bore, Peter Gomes
	2001	Object Magazine, Collectors Article Canberra, Meridith Hinchcliffe
	1999	Object Magazine, Collectors Article Canberra, Meridith Hinchcliffe The Sydney Morning Herald, Domain Article Shattered, George Epaminonda
	1998	Kunsthandwerk and Design Magazine, Munich Talente Exhibition, Dr Angela Bock

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