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Richard Lewer

Richard Lewer (Born 1970) is active/lives in New Zealand.  Richard Lewer is known for Painting.

Richard Lewer exhibits regularly in Australia and New Zealand and is known for his paintings and delicately beautiful drawings which evocatively rework some of life’s less pleasant elements – crime scenes, illness, horror movies and extreme events. The work is accessible, familiar, with a critical edge that probes what is beautiful and sinister about our society without injecting a moralizing tone or political message. Lewer’s focus is, however, less concerned with telling the concrete facts of an case instead his work explores the way that places can become repositories for the psychic residue of extreme events, painful activities or our deepest fears.

Lewer has been exhibiting for more than twenty years and has an established reputation in Australasia. Notable achievements include inclusion in exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne 2013, 2012, 2011), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) Perth (2012), Canberra Contemporary Art Centre (2006) and thhttp://www.gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/artists/   ...  [Displaying 1045 of 3392 characters.]  Artist bio

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