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Richard Lewer is a Melbourne-based visual artist who works with video and animation, painting, drawing and performance.[1][2] Lewer has been labelled as a contemporary social realist largely driven by a desire to explain patterns and connections within crime, sport and religion.[1][2][3]

Biography

Richard Lewer was born in 1970, in Hamilton, New Zealand. Lewer completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Elam School of Fine Arts at Auckland University from 1989 to 1992. He also holds a Master of Visual Arts, Victoria College of the Arts from the University of Melbourne, 2000.[4] Lewer is based in Melbourne and exhibits regularly in Australia and New Zealand.[5][6]

Awards and prizes

Richard Lewer won the Wallace Art Award in 2008 for a painting from a series called 'Skill, Discipline, Training'.[7] In 2014, Lewer was the 63rd recipient of the Blake Prize for Religious Art for his emotive new media work 'Worse Luck I’m Still Here'.[8][9][10][11] Lewer was the winner of the Basil Sellers Art Prize in 2016, with his submission of a series of oil paintings titled 'The Theatre of Sports'.[12] He was an Archibald Prize finalist in 2017.[13]

Symposiums and residencies

In 2014 Lewer was an artist in residence with the Parnngurr Community (Martumili Artists), Western Desert, Western Australia.[14][15][16] In 2012-2013 Lewer was an artist in residence at the Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth.[17] In 2010, Lewer completed an artists residency with the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York.[18]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Work of Richard Lewer". Australian Council for the Arts.
  2. ^ a b "Artist Interview: Richard Lewer". Artcollector.net.au. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Richard Lewer". Art Guide. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  4. ^ "Biography". Richard Lewer. Richardlewer.com. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  5. ^ Richard Lewer - Contact. {Suite}, Wellington, New Zealand. Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, Australia. Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, Australia. Retrieved 2018-05-24
  6. ^ View examples of Richard Lewer's work. {Suite}, Wellington. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  7. ^ "Richard Lewer: The game's the thing". New Zealand Herald. 28 March 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  8. ^ "Richard Lewer Wins 2014 Blake Prize". Blakeprize.com. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  9. ^ "Winner of the 2014 Blake Prize, Richard Lewer, for 'Worse Luck I'm Still Here' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Abc.net.au. 13 December 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  10. ^ "My favourite work: Richard Lewer's Worse Luck I'm Still Here at the Adelaide Biennial 2014 - video". the Guardian. 12 March 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  11. ^ Watson, Maggie (8 July 2015). "Richard Lewer: Worse Luck I am Still Here". Right Now, Human Rights in Australia. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  12. ^ Basil Sellers Art Prize 2016 2016 Award winner. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  13. ^ 2017 Finalist, Archibald Prize
  14. ^ "Richard Lewer: Parnngurr". Artcollector.net.au. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  15. ^ Dylan Rainforth (10 February 2015). "Richard Lewer's remote portraits on show in Fitzroy". Smh.com.au. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  16. ^ "Parnngurr". The Art Life. 23 March 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  17. ^ [1]
  18. ^ "Richard Lewer - ISCP - International Studio & Curatorial Program". Iscp-nyc.org. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
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