Jo Lewis (b.1967) is a London-based artist who works in ink and watercolour on paper.
Selected Exhibitions
2025
‘La Madeleine de Proust’ Vivienne Roberts Projects, group show
‘Haiku’ Vivienne Roberts Projects, online solo show
‘Espace Fluide’ La Galérie Valérie Éymeric, Lyon, France, solo show
‘Petits Formats’ La Villa Balthasar, Valence, France, group show
‘Cloche, Pot-Écolier et Tellière’ Galerie Papiers d’Art, Paris, group show
2024
‘Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize’ Touring exhibition
‘Souffle’, Galerie Papiers d’Art, Paris: group show
‘A Room of One’s Own’, Irving Contemporary, Oxford
Sarah Adams Gallery, Padstow, Cornwall
‘Nearly not there, actaully very’, Ken’s Artspace, London SE11, solo show
2023
‘Between Two Rivers’, La Galérie Valérie Éymeric, Lyon, France, solo show
‘5+1’, La Villa Balthasar, Valence, France, group show
‘Eau’, SEE Galerie/ Galerie Faure Beaulieu, Paris, group show
‘Dialogue Printanier’, Galerie Papiers d’Art, Paris, group show
‘Elemental’, Group Show Pop Up, London W11
2022
‘Au Jardin’, Galerie Papiers d’Art, Paris, group show
‘Patience et Fulgurance,’ La Galérie Valérie Eymeric, Lyon, France, group show
‘To the River’, M2 Gallery, London SE15, solo show
‘M2 Artists:Recent Work’, ASC Gallery, London SE17, group show
2021
‘Climate Change and the Ecological Emergency’, The Street Gallery, London NW1: group show
‘The Petri Dish Project’, Tebbs Contemporary, London E1: group show
‘Painting Open 2021’, No Format Gallery, London SE14: group show
‘I Didn’t Lick It’, Bruton Correspondence Collective, Bruton, group show
‘Passing Through’, Back Lit Gallery, Nottingham, group show
‘Sonates,’ Galerie Papiers d’Art, Paris, group show
2020:
‘Orbes’, Galerie Papiers d’Art, Paris,group show
2018
‘Flow’, Galerie Vitrine 65, Paris, solo show
2017
‘A Kind of Blue’, Galerie Vitrine 65, Paris, group show
2013
‘Wave’, Maestro Arts, London SW18, solo show
‘Absolute Secret’, Royal College of Art, London, 2010-17
‘Sydenham Festival’, group show, curated by Mireille Galinou
2011
‘London Seen’, City Hall, London SE1, group show
‘Shore’, HDR Architects, London SW1, solo show
2010
‘Summer 2010’, Morton Metropolis Gallery, London W1:group show, curated by Serena Morton
Residencies
2023:La Galérie Valérie Éymeric, France, residency ahead of solo show
2022:Il Convento, Chamusca,Portugal, 2 week paid residency on banks of River Tagus
2017:Guangxi Art School, China: Arts Council UK, 4 week invited residency in South West China, including travel, research and exhibition
2015:Aldeburgh Music Festival, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 2 week interdisciplinary residency
2011:Westminster Academy, London, 3 week residency in secondary school
Commissions, Collaborations and Awards
2022-3: OWO Hotel, Whitehall, London SW1, commission for 9 large paintings for suites
2021: Stoney Lane Records, Artwork of Album cover, ‘Ink on A Pin’ by Sara Colman
2021:“Towards:Stillness,” presentation at Drawing Research Network conference on Temporal Drawing
2020: Visions of Science Award, shortlisted artist, University of Bath
2020: Shortlisted for SSE (South Scottish Electric) Award for Environmental Artist
2019: H and H Hotels:Snustainable Bedroom Curated Collection painting commission
2018: La Mairie,Neuilly-sur-Marne, France, Artwork for permanent collection at Town Hall
2017: BT Financial Group Sydney, Australia, Artwork acquired for corporate London HQ
2017: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London: commissioned performance involving live drawing and dance in collaboration with Dane Jeremy Hurst, dancer and choreographer
2016: SCP Ltd, Seoul, South Korea: commissioned artwork for use as permanent installation on design of 44m glass frontage of flagship store, Beijing (installed 2017)
2016: Commonwealth Bank of Australia, London HQ, 12 painting large scale commisison
2013: Royal College of Music: London: Commissioned artwork for the permanent collection as part of the Benjamin Britten centenary
Selected Collections
22 Bishopsgate London; More London Collection of Contemporary Art; Royal College of Music, London; Ashtead Hospital, Surrey, UK; CityWire, London; Twickenham Stadium,London; Hermès UK; Ripple, USA; BT Financial Group Sydney, Australia
Education
Leith School of Art, Edinburgh , Fime Art Foundation
University of Edinburgh, MA History of Art
École Régionale des Beaux- Arts, Valence, France, School of Painting
Press and Links
Drawing Research Network, 2021 Symposium on Temporal Drawing (minutes 10-30 and then Q&A) https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/tracey/drn-temporal-drawing-stillness-motion-recording/
Drawing to Feel Good, A Collection of Drawings and Writings, edited by Chloe Briggs, Paris College of Art https://files.cargocollective.com/634001/Drawing-to-Feel-Good--Issue-1-.pdf
The Guardian, 2019: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/may/28/artemisia-gentileschi-painting-tour-women-jail-send-prison
Dulwich Festival, interview:2017 https://dulwichfestival.co.uk/interview-jo-lewis/
CurrentAcademic Posts
Paris College of Art,Drawing Tutor, ongoing since 2019
London Film School, Visiting Lecturer, ongoing since 2012
