Richard Lewer New Zealand, 1970-.
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About Richard Lewer
Richard Lewer was born in Hamilton New Zealand in 1970. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland School of Fine Arts in 1992 and studied at the Victoria College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne in 2000 where he was awarded Master degree in Visual Arts. He works with a variety of media including steel aluminium, sheepskin, sandpaper, pegboard, laminex, and concrete. Since 2009 he has exhibited extensively in Auckland Melbourne Sydney Canberra and Adelaide with venues including the Ian Potter Museum of Art in Melbourne, the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Fremantle Arts Centre. Richard Lewer was the winner of the Blake Prize for Religious Art in 2014 and the Basil Sellars Art Prize in 2016. He lives and works in Melbourne.
We have records of art auction sales by Richard Lewer from 2006 and in total 207 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 124 (60%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $11,790 for The Act of Impalement (from the 'Moby Dick' series) sold by Art+Object in November 2024. This year 14 works have been offered for sale. Works by Richard Lewer are held by the Monash University Museum of Art, Auckland Art Gallery and a further eight major public national galleries (see list below).
Richard Lewer is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 149
- The Find New Zealand Artists web site: a database of artist names that directs researchers to the rich resources found in New Zealand's libraries, art society exhibition histories and published sources.
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