About

CD Lewis. Born in Leicestershire, 1949. First black woman to join a professional dance company in England (London Contemporary Dance Theatre) as a principal dancer and choreographer.

Is an associate of the Preston Street Union, an affiliation of artists initiated by Trevor Pitt during a residency at SpaceX, Exeter in 2015.

2016. US CHAPS
2016. Bookmarks
2016. Art Vending Machine
2016 AWE Art Week Exeter with P.S.U.

Multidiscipline artist from 1974 -

I make artworks, paintings, drawings, prints, objects, sometimes performance, films and collaborations.

The works address ideas surrounding the nature of existence - the phenomenon of 'being'; the influences and reflections of contemporary culture and society, how our environment affects us and how we affect our environment.

I centre my subject matter upon the figure and narrative both imagined and recollected and it is through this rigour, this anchor that I find abstraction.

Within this abstraction a breakdown of logic occurs, causing me to flounder while I try to invent or find a different kind of meaning perhaps towards a new climate - of responding to landscape, communities, a merging of colour, form and light, and a totality of the image that one may try to identify as abstracted landscape or abstracted form, it really is neither, but all.

This is a wobbly place to be, a hard place logistically, I want the sense of uneasiness. I don't want to clarify things for the viewer, but to create a lens on the phenomenon of being, the nature of existence.

I see my work as playful, fun as well as deeply considered. Hopefully the works encourage the viewer to be open to consider, react and respond.