Ruark Lewis b. 1960

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Architect ,
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Theatre / Film Designer),
  • Artist (Video Artist)
Ruark Lewis is a Sydney-based visual artist and writer. He works in a wide range of media such as painting, drawing, installation, artists-books, performance, public art, theatre and audio-video works.
Tags: Language-based Art
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exhibited at
In my empty house
Date
26 November 2010 - 23 December 2010
Place
St Pauls St Gallery One, Auckland University of Technology , New Zealand
Description

A major new installation work by Ruark Lewis, In my empty house, includes a collaboration with experimental filmmaker Loma Bridge. The exhibition is a portrait composite of internationally renowned anthropologist Vivienne Kondos and her husband Alex Kondos leaving their house, a space filled with the accumulated ephemera of living and the patina of over thirty years of anthropological and social research.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/106-ruark-lewis-loma-bridge-in-my-empty-house-26-november-23-december-to-2010
exhibited at
Ruark Lewis: Housing the seafaring nation
Date
February 2009 - May 2009
Place
Miller's Point, Sydney, NSW
Type
Other event
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/archive/102-2009-exhibitions-projects/82-ruark-lewis-housing-the-seafaring-nation
exhibited at
An Index for the Homeless
Date
2008
Place
MOP, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Books made by artists
Date
17 August 2007 - 19 August 2007
Place
Rex Community Centre, Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales
Type
Festival
Tags
The Cross Art Projects, 5th Sydney Book Fair
Website
http://crossart.com.au/archive/104-2007-exhibitions-projects/74-books-made-by-artists
exhibited at
Riotous Suburbs: Privatising Public Housing
Date
9 June 2007 - 7 July 2007
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

Riotous Suburbs presents threads of arguments about the economics and politics of space, housing, distribution and access as governments turn to private market solutions to housing needs. The artists essay the protest and civil unrest that has shadowed a decade of privatisation and great comfort for some.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/209-riotous-suburbs-curator-jo-holder-9-june-to-7-july-2007
exhibited at
An Index of Kindness
Date
2007
Place
Post-Museum, Singapore
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Banalities for the Perfect House
Date
2007
Place
SLOT, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
curator of
ArtLanguage: Every Publishable Place
Date
1 April 2006 - 29 April 2006
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/223-artlanguage-every-publishable-placecurated-by-ruark-lewis-1-to-29-april-2006
curator of
ArtLanguage: Every Publishable Place
Date
1 April 2006 - 29 April 2006
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

Curator Ruark Lewis places work by eminent language artists Alex Selenitsch, Franz Ehmann and Ania Walwicz alongside that of an emerging generation. The exhibition unites aesthetic sensibility and avant-garde traditions with a critical approach to the dissemination and display of art.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/223-artlanguage-every-publishable-placecurated-by-ruark-lewis-1-to-29-april-2006
exhibited at
Banalities for Babel
Date
2005
Place
MOP Projects, Redfern, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Banalities for the Perfect House
Date
2005
Place
The Performance Space, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
False Narratives
Date
2004
Place
Room 103
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Ruark Lewis: false narratives
Date
2001
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Exhibition of new works at the EAF offered a range of focussed pieces exploring, among other things, ruminations on friendship and ageing; and evocative spoken soundscapes with sculptural associations. Literary works were present as visual and temporal pieces, and abstract typeset and drawn images suggested linguistic and aural impression etc.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Ingram, Simon, False narratives / Ruark Lewis. Burnley, Vic: NMA Publications, c2001
ISBN 0957754914

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Ruark Lewis: just for nothing
Date
2001
Place
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Wollongong City Gallery annual report

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Photography
exhibited at
Relay
Date
2000
Place
Sydney, NSW
Description

Sydney Olympic Arts Festival

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Raft
Date
1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

A collaborative installation by visual artist Ruark Lewis and writer Paul Carter which aims to show language as performance.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW archive index cards; AGNSW Library catalogue; http://www.gangway.net/reviews/carter.html;

Exhibition Catalogue:
Carter, Paul and Lewis, Ruark, Raft. [Sydney]: Art Gallery of NSW, 1995
1 folded sheet (4p); ill ; 30cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Installation
exhibited at
Raft
Date
1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Transcription Drawings [International Festival]
Date
1992
Place
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Vic.
Type
Festival
exhibited at
Ruark Lewis: transcription drawings, 1988-1992
Date
1992
Place
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Ruark Lewis: transcription drawings, 1988-1992. South Yarra, Vic: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 1992
ISBN 0947220151

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Drawing
exhibited at
Transcription Drawings
Date
1989
Place
Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition

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