Glenn Lewis (artist)

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Glenn Lewis
Born
Glenn Alun Lewis

1935 (age 8889)
Education1961–64, Studied ceramics under Bernard Leach, St. Ives, Cornwall, England.

1958–59, Teaching Certificate, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.

1954-58, Graduated with honours in painting, drawing and ceramics, Vancouver School of Art (now

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Emily Carr University of Art and Design.)
Notable workAn Earthly Paradise Journey Through Nine Stages Image installation, 1970-ongoing. Installed at the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Devonian Harbour Park, Vancouver, 2013.

Blue tape around City Block Video, 1969. Installed at Coal Harbour community centre, Vancouver, 2013; Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden, 2013; Camley Street Natural Park interpretive centre, London, 2012

I Won't Take Your Hand, Monsieur Manet, I Have Not Washed in Eight Days 2008
Awards Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (Video)

Glenn Lewis (aka Flakey Rrose Hip [ sic ]) (born 1935 [1] in Chemainus, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian cross-disciplinary contemporary artist. [2]

Life and career

Lewis is a contemporary ceramicist, sculptor, potter, muralist, photographer, videographer, filmmaker, performance artist, and writer, as well as a teacher and administrator. [3] [2] [4] [5]

After receiving a scholarship from the Royal Canadian Legion in Kelowna, British Columbia in 1954, Lewis spent the next ten years studying painting, drawing, and ceramics, and teaching. [6] [7] In 1969, Lewis was commissioned by the Canadian government to create a work of art for Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. Artifact, a sculptural ceramic work, was ultimately not shown, because it was thought by the commissioner of the Canadian pavilion to be obscene. [8]

As a co-founding member of the New Era Social Club, Intermedia, and, in 1973, the Western Front, Lewis was one of an internationally recognised group of artists who established social practice as an artistic medium in Vancouver. [1]

Lewis has been influential as an educator. Previous students of artist's include Gathie Falk, who studied sculpture under Lewis at the University of British Columbia. [9]

In 2017, Lewis was named by the Canada Council for the Arts as one of eight recipients of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts, for which he received a $25,000 cash prize. [7]

Lewis lives and works in Roberts Creek, British Columbia. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 "The Artist As a Fraud: Glenn Lewis - The Geist Gallery". geist.brushd.com. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Glenn Lewis". Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  3. den Daas, Ron; Kenny, Kathy (2016). Wild New Territories portraits of the urban and the wild London Vancouver Berlin (first ed.). London: Black Dog Publishing Limited. pp. 27, 30–31, 94. ISBN   978-1-910433-64-5.
  4. Belkin Gallery. "Glenn Lewis". vancouverartinthesixties.com. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  5. Network, Government of Canada, Canadian Heritage, Canadian Heritage Information. "Artists in Canada". app.pch.gc.ca. Retrieved 18 August 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. "Glen Lewis". ccca.concordia.ca. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  7. 1 2 "Vancouver artists Landon Mackenzie, Glenn Lewis win Governor General's Awards". Vancouver Sun. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  8. "Glenn Lewis: Art Banned by Canada". Vancouver Sun. 22 October 2010. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  9. Jacques, Michelle (2022). Gathie Falk: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute. ISBN   978-1-4871-0285-2.
  10. "CCCA Artist Profile for Glenn Lewis". ccca.concordia.ca. Retrieved 23 August 2017.