EDUCATION
1986 – 1988MA Fine Art – Newcastle Polytechnic.
1979 – 1982BA (Hons) Fine Art – Hull College of Art & Design.
1978 – 1979Foundation Diploma, Loughborough College of Art & Design.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2019Elected member of the Yorkshire Sculpture Group
2013Elected Member of Royal Society of Sculptors(MRSS)
TEACHING
2015-2019Lead Artist, plaster workshop. Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Wakefield.
2012Bronze Casting course assistant to Chris Butler, Castle Fine Art foundry,
Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Wakefield.
2010Master class drawing Tutor, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield.
2007 to 2018Senior Lecturer B.A(Hons) Fine art, Teesside University.
1986-2007Tutor, Cleveland College of Art and Design, Middlesbrough
2003-2004Visiting Lecturer, Bradford College, School of Art & design
1990-1992Part time Lecturer, Newcastle College
1988Visiting Lecturer, Newcastle College
1986Visiting Lecturer, Hull College of Art
EXHIBITIONS (Solo)
2014SHIFT, Newcastle Arts Centre Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
2011Redefining the Domestic Duckett and Jeffrey's gallery, Malton, North Yorkshire
2007Reclamation, Myles Meehan gallery, Darlington Arts centre, Co Durham.
2004Arc, Stockton on Tees.
2000The Rotunda Gallery, University of Durham, Stockton Campus
1998Gallerie 175, Dozule, France.
1995Saltburn Artists Gallery , Cleveland.
1994Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Artist in Focus
1992Primal Essence, Cleveland College of Art & Design Gallery, Middlesbrough
1990Lake District drawings, Calouste Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1988Freedom to Touch Showcase, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1988The Long Gallery, University of Newcastle
1984Sculpture and Drawings, Hull Artists Association Gallery, Hull.
EXHIBITIONS (Group)
2023Borrow Pit, Huddersfield Art gallery, Huddersfield.
2022Assembly, Wakefield Cathedral, Wakefield
2022Middlethorpe Manor Sculpture Garden, York
2021Passages, Old Parcel Office Art Space, Scarborough
2021Dora House Gallery, Royal Society of Sculptors, London
2021Wentworth Castle Gardens, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
2021Cheeseburn Grange Sculpture Garden, Stamfordham, Northumberland.
2020Invasive Species, Yorkshire Sculpture Group, RHS Harlow Carr Gardens, Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
2019Conversations in Sculpture, Royal Society of Sculptors, Huddersfield Art Gallery.
2019Parallel Lines, Royal Society of Sculptors, The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey.
2019Pineapple Black Contemporary Art Space, Inaugural exhibition, Middlesbrough.
2018The Sitting Room, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton.
2017A funny thing happened on the way to the future...’ Hull School of Art and Design, Hull UK City of Culture, Hull.
2017FLUX, Fringe Bath Arts Festival, Bath.
2017M.A.W Middleborough Art Weekender, international Visual Arts festival.
2015Anonymous Drawings.
Kunstverein Tiergarten,Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany.
Galerie ARTQ/Rome, Italy.
Galerie GEYSO20 Braunschweig, Germany.
Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, Germany.
2015Newby Hall gardens, Ripon, North Yorkshire.
2015Terrace Treasures', Rievaulx Terrace,York
2014INPRINT Constantine gallery Teesside University, Middlesbrough.
2012Great North Museum: Hancock‘The curious case of ...’Newcastle upon Tyne.
201228:A Celebration of the Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington Arts Centre.
2011The Exhibitionists, Redcar and Cleveland Open Studios Event. Cleveland.
2011Remade & Readymade, Constantine Gallery, Teesside University, Middlesbrough.
2008A1 Open, the Station, Richmond, North Yorkshire.
2003Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, USA.
2000Socha A Objekt V, Bratislava, Slovakia
1999Third Sculpture Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
1998Drawing by Invitation, Saltburn Artists Gallery, Cleveland.
1997Cleveland Gallery, Cleveland Open, Middlesbrough.
1996Second Sculpture Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
Saltburn Artists Gallery,‘Living on the Edge’.
Cleveland Open, Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbrough.
1995-96-97-99-01-02Saltburn Artists Gallery, Christmas Show, Cleveland.
1995Knott’s Exhibition Centre, YMCA, North Shields.
1993Positive Touch, Gateshead, Library Gallery, Gateshead.
First Sculpture Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
Smiths Galleries, Covent Garden, London.
1991Kirkley Hall Gardens, Northumberland
Brewery Arts Centre, Warehouse Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria
Small Works, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1990The Latest Form, Holmfirth Art Gallery, Holmfirth.
1989Third Dimension, Cleveland College of Art & Design. Middlesbrough.
Cleveland College of Art & Design, (Two person show)
Freedom to Touch, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Real Connections, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.
From the North, The City Gallery, Leicester.
1989Oriel Y Ddraig, Blaenau Ffestinog, North Wales
Small Works, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1988M. A Degree Final Exhibition, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1987Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Hull College of Higher Education, Hull.
York Artspace, Under One Roof,University of York, Heslington Hall, York.
Art in the Dene, Jesmond Dene, Newcastle upon Tyne
1986York Artspace, York College of Art & Technology, York.
Newcastle Fringe Festival, Tyneside Artists Contact Group, Newcastle upon Tyne.
York Artspace at Matilda Street Gallery, Sheffield.
1985Sculpture for the Garden, Marygate Lane Gallery, York
Artspace Exchange, Hull Artists in Japan.
1983Winter Exhibition, The Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
St Martins Gallery, Leicester
Posterngate Gallery, Hull – ‘Out of their Time’
COMMISSIONS
2015‘UNION’ steel sculpture for BOC Teesside.
2013Geoff Waterfield Memorial sculpture, SSI UK headquarters, Steel House, Redcar.
2009Entrance feature Errington wood, Redcar and Cleveland Council.
2008Gate feature, Errington wood, Redcar and Cleveland Council.
2008Cathedral of the Senses, steel sculpture, Holistic Cancer Care Centre garden,James Cook Hospital, Middlesbrough.
2007‘Left Luggage, Public sculpture for Redcar sea front, commissioned by Working Title Films, Redcar and Cleveland Council to celebrate the making of the film Atonement.
2004/05E.A.Z Steel chimes sculpture. Badger Hill School, Brotton, Saltburn.
2000-2002Ouseburn Way markers x4 and incidental walkway features, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle-u-Tyne (Arts Lottery funded)
2002Cleveland Arts Mentor, ARTS Disability Project. Bronze sculpture, Brotton Hospital, East Cleveland.
2001Victoria Tunnel Railings, (Commissioned Designs) Ouseburn Heritage Group Newcastle upon Tyne.
1999Railings for Normanby Road, South Bank, Middlesbrough, Cleveland Arts, Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council, S.R.B.
1994Cleveland County Council, Flatts Lane Woodland Country Park. Cleveland.
1993Sand Sculpture for Tynemouth Beach, Freeform Festival, North Tyneside.
1989St Oswald’s Hospice gardens, cast concrete Japanese lanterns, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne.
COLLECTIONS
2000Bratislava Council Collection, Slovakia.
1989Northern Arts Collection.
AWARDS
2003Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council
2002Redcar and Cleveland Design award, Up Front Railings, South Bank, Middlesbrough.
1988/89/94/98/00Northern Arts
1996Teesside Arts Award, TeessideDevelopment Corporation.
1995Redcar & Cleveland Arts Development Agency.
RESIDENCIES
2003Artists Studio residency, Custom House Studios, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland.
2000-02Ouseburn Valle, Newcastle upon Tyne
1989Gosforth C.M School. Newcastle upon Tyne, Real connections.
1982-83Hull School of Art and Design, Sculpture Studentship.
PUBLICATIONS
2023Borrow Pit, Yorkshire Sculptors Group, Huddersfield Art Gallery.
2019Conversations in Sculpture, Royal Society of Sculptors, Huddersfield Art Gallery.
2011Lewis Robinson, Redefining the Domestic, Duckett and Jeffrey’s Gallery, Malton, North Yorkshire.
2007Lewis Robinson, Reclamation, Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington.
2000-03Commissions in the North of England, Arts Council North East.
2001Public Art in Newcastle, A guide.
1999Up Front, Lewis Robinson, A Public Arts Project in Collaboration with Cleveland Arts, Redcar & Borough Council and South Bank Community Forum.
1998Lewis Robinson, Sculpture and Drawings 1994-98.