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PETER LEWIS    -  ARTIST & SCULPTOR

Medium  – Sculpture: sandstone, marble, bronze, resin, wood and multi-media

            Painting:   oils, acrylics and pastels

Artist Statement

My aim is to explore the presence of stillness and express this as energy in abstract and figurative forms.

Qualifications

Diploma in Fine Arts (majoring in sculpture) – East Sydney, Randwick and Meadowbank Tafe

Prizes and Awards

First Prize (clay fired sculpture ‘African Dancer’) Royal Easter Show, Sydney 1980

First Prize, Diploma Fine Arts (final year), Sydney 1980

Honourable Mention (pastel drawing ‘at the races’) Panthers Club, Penrith 1998

First Prize (stone carving ‘Enlightenment’) Willoughby City Council Art Show, Sydney 1998

Commended (stone carving ‘Enlightenment’) Blacktown City Art Show, Sydney 1999

Commended (stone carving ‘On Watch’) Bowral Art Show 2001

Highly Commended (hebel carving ‘Edge of Despair’) Sculpture at Darling Park Exhibition 2003

Highly Commended (limestone/granite ‘Pinnacle’) Wyong Art Show 2005

Highly Commended (‘Wild Hunter’ bronze) Mosman Arts Festival 2009

First Prize, Wyong Central Coast Arts Festival 2009.  ("Wild Spirit" onyx).

Exhibitions

Royal Easter Show, Sydney 1980

Willoughby City Council 1998

Blacktown City Council, Sydney 1999      

Darling Park, Sydney, Australia 1999/2008

New South Wales Parliament House, Sydney 1999                    

Renaissance Hotel, Sydney, 2001

Bowral Art Show 2001/4

Mosman Village Sculpture Exhibition 2005, 2009                                     

Australia Square, Sydney 2002/8

Wyong Art Show, Wyong, Australia 2001/5                                

Royal Easter Show, Sydney, Australia 1980, 2002

Thursday Plantation Sculpture Show 2002, 2004

Berry ‘Southern Elements’ Sculpture Exhibition – 2002

Gallery Café, Surry Hills, Sydney 2001

Sauc Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney 2003

Milk Factory, Bowral 2007/8