Richard Lewer
Australian painter
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Early life and education
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, Victorian College of the Arts, from the University of Melbourne, 2000.[4]
Art practice
Awards and prizes
Lewer won the Wallace Art Award in 2008 for a painting from a series called Skill, Discipline, Training.[7]
In 2014, he was the 63rd recipient of the Blake Prize for Religious Art for his 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]
Symposia and residencies
In 2010, he completed an artist's residency with the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York.[16]
From 2012 to 2013 he was artist in residence at the Fremantle Arts Centre in Perth.[17]
In 2014 Lewer was artist in residence with the Parnngurr Community (Martumili artists), Western desert, Western Australia.[18][19][20]