EDUCATION | |
1986 – 1988 | MA Fine Art – Newcastle Polytechnic. |
1979 – 1982 | BA (Hons) Fine Art – Hull College of Art & Design. |
1978 – 1979 | Foundation Diploma, Loughborough College of Art & Design. |
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS | |
2019 | Elected member of the Yorkshire Sculpture Group |
2013 | Elected Member of Royal Society of Sculptors(MRSS) |
TEACHING | |
2015-2019 | Lead Artist, plaster workshop. Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Wakefield. |
2012 | Bronze Casting course assistant to Chris Butler, Castle Fine Art foundry, Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Wakefield. |
2010 | Master class drawing Tutor, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield. |
2007 to 2018 | Senior Lecturer B.A(Hons) Fine art, Teesside University. |
1986-2007 | Tutor, Cleveland College of Art and Design, Middlesbrough |
2003-2004 | Visiting Lecturer, Bradford College, School of Art & design |
1990-1992 | Part time Lecturer, Newcastle College |
1988 | Visiting Lecturer, Newcastle College |
1986 | Visiting Lecturer, Hull College of Art |
EXHIBITIONS (Solo) | |
2014 | SHIFT, Newcastle Arts Centre Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne. |
2011 | Redefining the Domestic Duckett and Jeffrey's gallery, Malton, North Yorkshire |
2007 | Reclamation, Myles Meehan gallery, Darlington Arts centre, Co Durham. |
2004 | Arc, Stockton on Tees. |
2000 | The Rotunda Gallery, University of Durham, Stockton Campus |
1998 | Gallerie 175, Dozule, France. |
1995 | Saltburn Artists Gallery , Cleveland. |
1994 | Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Artist in Focus |
1992 | Primal Essence, Cleveland College of Art & Design Gallery, Middlesbrough |
1990 | Lake District drawings, Calouste Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. |
1988 | Freedom to Touch Showcase, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. |
1988 | The Long Gallery, University of Newcastle |
1984 | Sculpture and Drawings, Hull Artists Association Gallery, Hull. |
EXHIBITIONS (Group) | |
2024 | Wells Art Contemporary Exhibition 2024, Wells Cathedral, Somerset. |
2024 | Material Truths, Old Parcel Office Art Space, Scarborough. |
2024 | The REFY Exhibition, Covent Garden, London |
2023 | Borrow Pit, Huddersfield Art gallery, Huddersfield. |
2022 | Assembly, Wakefield Cathedral, Wakefield |
2022 | Middlethorpe Manor Sculpture Garden, York |
2021 | Passages, Old Parcel Office Art Space, Scarborough |
2021 | Dora House Gallery, Royal Society of Sculptors, London |
2021 | Wentworth Castle Gardens, Barnsley, South Yorkshire |
2021 | Cheeseburn Grange Sculpture Garden, Stamfordham, Northumberland. |
2020 | Invasive Species, Yorkshire Sculpture Group, RHS Harlow Carr Gardens, Harrogate, North Yorkshire. |
2019 | Conversations in Sculpture, Royal Society of Sculptors, Huddersfield Art Gallery. |
2019 | Parallel Lines, Royal Society of Sculptors, The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey. |
2019 | Pineapple Black Contemporary Art Space, Inaugural exhibition, Middlesbrough. |
2018 | The Sitting Room, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton. |
2017 | A funny thing happened on the way to the future...’ Hull School of Art and Design, Hull UK City of Culture, Hull. |
2017 | FLUX, Fringe Bath Arts Festival, Bath. |
2017 | M.A.W Middleborough Art Weekender, international Visual Arts festival. |
2015 | Anonymous Drawings. |
Kunstverein Tiergarten,Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany. | |
Galerie ARTQ/Rome, Italy. | |
Galerie GEYSO20 Braunschweig, Germany. | |
Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, Germany. | |
2015 | Newby Hall gardens, Ripon, North Yorkshire. |
2015 | Terrace Treasures', Rievaulx Terrace,York |
2014 | INPRINT Constantine gallery Teesside University, Middlesbrough. |
2012 | Great North Museum: Hancock‘The curious case of ...’Newcastle upon Tyne. |
2012 | 28:A Celebration of the Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington Arts Centre. |
2011 | The Exhibitionists, Redcar and Cleveland Open Studios Event. Cleveland. |
2011 | Remade & Readymade, Constantine Gallery, Teesside University, Middlesbrough. |
2008 | A1 Open, the Station, Richmond, North Yorkshire. |
2003 | Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, USA. |
2000 | Socha A Objekt V, Bratislava, Slovakia |
1999 | Third Sculpture Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. |
1998 | Drawing by Invitation, Saltburn Artists Gallery, Cleveland. |
1997 | Cleveland Gallery, Cleveland Open, Middlesbrough. |
1996 | Second Sculpture Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. |
Saltburn Artists Gallery,‘Living on the Edge’. | |
Cleveland Open, Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbrough. | |
1995-96-97-99-01-02 | Saltburn Artists Gallery, Christmas Show, Cleveland. |
1995 | Knott’s Exhibition Centre, YMCA, North Shields. |
1993 | Positive Touch, Gateshead, Library Gallery, Gateshead. |
First Sculpture Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. | |
Smiths Galleries, Covent Garden, London. | |
1991 | Kirkley Hall Gardens, Northumberland |
Brewery Arts Centre, Warehouse Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria | |
Small Works, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle upon Tyne. | |
1990 | The Latest Form, Holmfirth Art Gallery, Holmfirth. |
1989 | Third 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. | |
1989 | Oriel Y Ddraig, Blaenau Ffestinog, North Wales |
Small Works, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle upon Tyne. | |
1988 | M. A Degree Final Exhibition, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle upon Tyne. |
1987 | Tenth 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 | |
1986 | York Artspace, York College of Art & Technology, York. |
Newcastle Fringe Festival, Tyneside Artists Contact Group, Newcastle upon Tyne. | |
York Artspace at Matilda Street Gallery, Sheffield. | |
1985 | Sculpture for the Garden, Marygate Lane Gallery, York |
Artspace Exchange, Hull Artists in Japan. | |
1983 | Winter 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. |
2013 | Geoff Waterfield Memorial sculpture, SSI UK headquarters, Steel House, Redcar. |
2009 | Entrance feature Errington wood, Redcar and Cleveland Council. |
2008 | Gate feature, Errington wood, Redcar and Cleveland Council. |
2008 | Cathedral 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. |
2004/05 | E.A.Z Steel chimes sculpture. Badger Hill School, Brotton, Saltburn. |
2000-2002 | Ouseburn Way markers x4 and incidental walkway features, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle-u-Tyne (Arts Lottery funded) |
2002 | Cleveland Arts Mentor, ARTS Disability Project. Bronze sculpture, Brotton Hospital, East Cleveland. |
2001 | Victoria Tunnel Railings, (Commissioned Designs) Ouseburn Heritage Group Newcastle upon Tyne. |
1999 | Railings for Normanby Road, South Bank, Middlesbrough, Cleveland Arts, Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council, S.R.B. |
1994 | Cleveland County Council, Flatts Lane Woodland Country Park. Cleveland. |
1993 | Sand Sculpture for Tynemouth Beach, Freeform Festival, North Tyneside. |
1989 | St Oswald’s Hospice gardens, cast concrete Japanese lanterns, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. |
COLLECTIONS | |
2000 | Bratislava Council Collection, Slovakia. |
1989 | Northern Arts Collection. |
AWARDS | |
2021/22 | Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice Award |
2003 | Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council |
2002 | Redcar and Cleveland Design award, Up Front Railings, South Bank, Middlesbrough. |
1988/89/94/98/00 | Northern Arts |
1996 | Teesside Arts Award, TeessideDevelopment Corporation. |
1995 | Redcar & Cleveland Arts Development Agency. |
RESIDENCIES | |
2003 | Artists Studio residency, Custom House Studios, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland. |
2000-02 | Ouseburn Valle, Newcastle upon Tyne |
1989 | Gosforth C.M School. Newcastle upon Tyne, Real connections. |
1982-83 | Hull School of Art and Design, Sculpture Studentship. |
PUBLICATIONS | |
2023 | Borrow Pit, Yorkshire Sculptors Group, Huddersfield Art Gallery. |
2019 | Conversations in Sculpture, Royal Society of Sculptors, Huddersfield Art Gallery. |
2011 | Lewis Robinson, Redefining the Domestic, Duckett and Jeffrey’s Gallery, Malton, North Yorkshire. |
2007 | Lewis Robinson, Reclamation, Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington. |
2000-03 | Commissions in the North of England, Arts Council North East. |
2001 | Public Art in Newcastle, A guide. |
1999 | Up Front, Lewis Robinson, A Public Arts Project in Collaboration with Cleveland Arts, Redcar & Borough Council and South Bank Community Forum. |
1998 | Lewis Robinson, Sculpture and Drawings 1994-98. |