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| Paul F Lewthwaite | |
I was born in 1969 on the Isle Of Man. From 1970 – 1974 I lived in Adelaide, Australia, then it was back to the IOM until I moved to Sunderland in 1990 where I graduated from the University of Sunderland in 1993. In 1993, I moved into a shared studio space up three flights of stairs with no light and constant damp. Not long after, I set up the Bunker Studio Group, ground floor sculpture space where I worked until moving to Nottingham in 1995. In 1996, I set up Moreland Court Artists Studio Group with another artist, providing ground floor and first floor studio spaces. |
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| About the Artist | |
Paul Frank Lewthwaite makes sculptures that make a fragmented poetic rather than coherent practical sense. Timber boxes open to reveal spray-painted MDF flat packs for the construction of not domestic shelves or furniture but what the artist calls “motifs of fragmentation”. Ship for the Sinking is a steel kit for a sea-going suicide. A Place of Blindness is a steel model house spray painted black with plywood boarded-up windows. Three Diaries: Hopes, Dreams, Desires is a set of three steel diary-sized locked safes. The mystifying strength of Lewthwaite’s work lies in its half-resemblance to quite ordinary things. Often made from DIY materials, these constructions look like they should be of some use, yet like a DIY joke, their use escapes us. A recent series of even more mysterious plywood sculptures were based on a combination of drawings done at Madrid’s Museo Arqueologico Nacional and reproductions taken from The War Illustrated publications 1940-1946. These are plywood semi-abstracts but again take on the significance of skeletal relics or fossilised remains. Then again they could be bits of furniture gone weird, furnishings from a DIY nightmare. Lewthwaite’s mock-domestic sculptures bring home the fact that an artwork is an immaculately crafted object that is of absolutely no use to anyone other than being its own deeply suggestive self. |
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Flat Pack Sculpture: Green
2004 |
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A Place of Blindness
2001 |
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Ship for the Sinking
2000 |
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Three Diaries: Hopes, Dreams, Desires
1999 |
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| Contains writings, sealed |
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The Companion of Eleonore Zugin
2001 |
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| One of "I Know of a Place" series, based on folk/ghost stories |
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From Making a Place exhibition
2007 |
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| Part of commissioned installation for Whitewall, Milton Keynes Contemporary. Works relating to the urban design and make up of Milton Keynes. |
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From Making a Place exhibition
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| Part of commissioned installation for Whitewall, Milton Keynes Contemporary. Works relating to the urban design and make up of Milton Keynes.
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From Making a Place exhibition
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| Part of commissioned wall mounted installation for Whitewall, Milton Keynes Contemporary. Works relating to the urban design and make up of Milton Keynes.
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From Making a Place exhibition
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| Part of commissioned wall mounted installation for Whitewall, Milton Keynes Contemporary. Works relating to the urban design and make up of Milton Keynes. |
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| Education and biography | |
| Education: 1998 A.B.H.F. Post Graduate Certificate in Arts Practice, Nottingham. 1993 B.A. (hons) Fine Art. University of Sunderland. Awarded degree show prize for Fine Art. Selected exhibitions/commissions/awards: 2007 Making a Place, Whitewall Milton Keynes Contemporary. SOLO. 2007 On Show at 108, One Year Display, RBS Gallery, London. GROUP. 2007 Emergence, Transplant (Live), Dale Norway. GROUP. 2006 B-Open, USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway. GROUP. 2006 “Art at the Arc”, Geldards, Nottingham. COMMISSION 2006 Wrightington Hospital, Wigan. COMMISSION 2005 Espai Serrat, “Montserrat Drawings”. Barcelona, Spain. SOLO. 2005 USF Verftet, Residency Award, Bergen, Norway. AWARD 2005 Can Serratt, Barcelona, Support Stipend. AWARD 2005 Portico Gallery. “Amongst Forgotten Treasures”. Manchester. GROUP 2005 Harold Martin Botanic Gardens. “RBS Centenary Exhibition”. GROUP 2005 Brunei Gallery. “After Hiroshima: Nuclear Imaginaries”. London. GROUP 2004 Chesterfield Magistrates Court, Derbyshire. COMMISSION 2004 Olympia Grand Hall. “Mere Jelly” at “On the Wall”. London. GROUP 2002 Galeria Nela Alberca. “Líneas de la Conexión”. Madrid, Spain. SOLO 2002 Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art. “Wish You Were Here”. GROUP 2002 Galeria Nela Alberca. “Colectiva, Exposición Benéfica Lucha Contra el Cancer”. Madrid, Spain. GROUP 2002 Galeria Mas Cornadas da el Hambre. “Ladders”. Madrid, Spain. GROUP 2000 Greenfields Arts Centre. Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. COMMISSION 2000 The Art Exchange Gallery Prize, Nottingham. AWARD 2000 The Art Exchange. “Works”. Nottingham. SOLO 1999 University of Manchester Institute of Science/Technology. COMMISSION 1999 UMIST 175th Anniversary, Manchester. AWARD 1998 Warwickshire College. Moreton Morrell Site. COMMISSION 1998 Angel Orensanz Centre. “Proposal Exhibition”. New York. GROUP 1998 Moreton Morrell Hall. “Plinth Pieces”. Warwickshire. SOLO 1997 British Work House Gallery. “One Year Exhibition of British Art”. Dallas, Texas. GROUP 1996 Victor Christ Gasse. “British art”. Vienna, Austria. GROUP |
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