Richard Lewer

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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]

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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] 2021 [14] and 2022. [15]

Symposiums and residencies

In 2014 Lewer was an artist in residence with the Parnngurr Community (Martumili Artists), Western Desert, Western Australia. [16] [17] [18] In 2012-2013 Lewer was an artist in residence at the Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth. [19] In 2010, Lewer completed an artists residency with the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York. [20]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "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. ↑ "Archibald prize 2021: Grace Tame, Ben Quilty, Eryn Jean Norvill and more – in pictures". The Guardian. 27 May 2021. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  15. ↑ "Archibald Prize Archibald 2022 work: Liz Laverty by Richard Lewer". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  16. ↑ "Richard Lewer: Parnngurr". Artcollector.net.au. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  17. ↑ Dylan Rainforth (10 February 2015). "Richard Lewer's remote portraits on show in Fitzroy". Smh.com.au. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  18. ↑ "Parnngurr". The Art Life. 23 March 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  19. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.fac.org.au. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  20. ↑ "Richard Lewer - ISCP - International Studio & Curatorial Program". Iscp-nyc.org. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
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