Jo Lewis
Education
University of Edinburgh, MA History of Art (2:1)
Leith School of Art Fine Art Foundation
École des Beaux Arts de Valence, FIne Art (School of Painting)
Teaching Experience
Selected Teaching Experience:
National Gallery London, artist educator, 2001-ongoing
London Film School, course tutor, 2005-ongoing
Wallace Collection, London, freelance artist educator, life drawing, 2020-ongoing
Dulwich Picture Gallery, freelance artist educator, adult courses, 2010-17
Exhibitions
Selected recent Exhibitions:
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing prize Exhibition 2024, group show, touring UK 2024-5
‘Nearly not there, Actually very’ solo show, Ken Artspace, London, 2024
‘Souffle’, group show, Galerie Papiers d’Art, Paris, 2024
‘Sarah Adams Gallery’, Padstow, UK, solo show, 2024
‘Petits Formats’, group show, La Galerie Villa Balthasar, Valence, 2024
”Between Two Rivers’, solo show, La Galerie Valérie Eymeric, Lyon, 2023
‘Eau’, group show, Galerie See, Paris, 2023
‘To the River’, solo show, M2 Gallery, London, 2022
Awards/Prizes
OWO Hotel, Whitehall, London SW1, commission for 9 large paintings for suites, 2023
Stoney Lane Records, Artwork of Album cover, “Ink on A Pin!by Sara Colman, 2021
‘Towards:Stillness,” presentation at Drawing Research Network conference on Temporal Drawing, 2021
Visions of Science Award, shortlisted artist, University of Bath, 2020
Shortlisted for SSE (South Scottish Electric) Award for Environmental Artist, 2020
H and H Hotels:Sustainable Bedroom Curated Collection painting commission, 2019
2018: La Mairie,Neuilly-sur-Marne, France, Artwork for permanent collection at Town Hall 2017: BT Financial Group Sydney, Australia, Artwork acquired for corporate London HQ
2017: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London: commissioned performance involving live drawing and dance in collaboration with Dane Jeremy Hurst, dancer and choreographer
2016: SCP Ltd, Seoul, South Korea: commissioned artwork for use as permanent installation on design of 44m glass frontage of flagship store, Beijing (installed 2017)
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London HQ, 12 painting large scale commisison, 2016
Royal College of Music: London: Commissioned artwork for the permanent collection as part of the Benjamin Britten centenary, 2013
Professional Experience/Clients
Represented by: Vivienne Roberts Gallery, London; Galerie Papiers d’Art, Paris, La Galerie Valerie Eymeric, Lyon
Work In Collection of; Royal College of Music, London; Ashtead Hospital, Surrey; Mairie de la Marne, France, 22 Bishopsgate, London; Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London; Raffles Hotels, London; Hermès UK; Barclays Bank UK, City Wire, London; Ripple USA; Hilton Hotels Dubai; Twickenham Stadium, London; SCP Seoul (Beijing).
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