Ruark Lewis

INTRODUCTION

Dance performance LiteraturWERKstatt-Poesie Festival’03 Berlin with Rabato Tanzcompagnie
Travel Grant International Development & Marketing Fund Australia Council

Publications Grant New Media Arts Fund Australia Council
Consultant Bridge Street Renewal & Upgrade Program Sydney City Council
Artist-in-Residence Faculty of Architecture Building & Planning University of Melbourne
Artist-in-Residence Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
Artist-in-Residence Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

EXHIBITIONS

2008 Freestyle Books State Library Queensland  Big Fag Press@Sydney Sydney An Index for the Homeless MOP Sydney An Index of Kindness Chalkhorse Sydney GO-HOME Squat-Fest Sydney Project 39 SNO Sydney An Index of Kindness (out-of-gallery) project National Trust of Australia Sydney Rubik Charles Nodrum Gallery Melbourne

2007 Match-box Gosford Regional Gallery Art Environment Activism Cambelltown Regional Gallery History Lesson No.2 Noreen Graham Gallery Brisbane Silence SNO Sydney Banalities for the Perfect House SLOT  Sydney An Index of Kindness Post-Museum Singapore (with Jonathan Jones) Our Lucky Country Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Open Letter Loose Projects Sydney Artists-Books Centre Pompidou Artists-Books International Editions/Artists’ Books Fair ’07 NYC Riotous Suburbs Cross Arts Projects Sydney Homeland Illuminations I Macquarie University Homeland Illuminations II  Carriageworks Sydney

2006 Biennale of Sydney MCA Recent Acquisitions MCA Sydney False Narratives Die Schachtel Gallery Milan Transcriptions Charles Nodrum Gallery  Melbourne Shipping Tales Johan Deumens Haarlem Shipping Tales Ocular Lab Melbourne This Lucky Country Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Artlanguage:Every Publishable Place Cross Arts Projects Sydney (curator) Dobell Drawing Prize Art Gallery of NSW Editions/Artists’ Books Fair ’06 NYC, Abstraction 5 Charles Nodrum Gallery Melbourne

2005 Banalities for Babel MOP Projects Sydney Banalities for the Perfect House The Performance Space Sydney Interesting Times MCA Sydney SNO, Sydney     

2004 False Narratives Room 103 Auckland Organization for Cultural Exchange and Disagreement Western Front Vancouver & West Space Melbourne Banalities Sydney Olympic Park

2003 The Silhouettes Art Gallery South Australia Banalities Adelaide Project Space Fales Narratives RMIT Melbourne(with Rainer Linz) BanalitiesRoom 101 Auckland Catscradle CLUBSproject.inc Melbourne (with Richard Rataczjk & Jonathan Jones)   

2002 Transcription, Araluen Arts Centre Alice Springs Conny Dietzschold Gallery Sydney & Cologne Just for Nothing Plimsoll Gallery  Hobart     

2001 MERZ Transcriptions BLAUGRAU Reckonings The Performance Space Raft Sprengel Museum Hannover New Work Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Just for Nothing RMIT Gallery Melbourne Just for Nothing Wollonggong City Gallery    

2000 Relay Sydney Olympic Arts Festival Water Drawings Watch-This-Space Gallery Alice Springs Just for Nothing Sarah Cottier Gallery Sydney Raft Angel Row Gallery Nottingham Raft Mappin Gallery Sheffield

1999 Transcriptions Richard Salmon Gallery London Raft IKON Gallery Birmingham

1997 Catscradle for Alice Springs Watch-this-Space Gallery Alice Springs Raft Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide       

1996 Palimpsest Artspace Canberra Contemporary Arts Space + Canberra School of Art RMIT Storey Hall   Raft Ian Potter Gallery Melbourne University

1995 Raft Institute of Modern Art Brisbane Raft Art Gallery of New South Wales

1993 Liberation Gallerie Mar Estrada Verona Festival Mallorca     

1992 Transcription Drawin, International Festival, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Melbourne Contemporary Australian Drawing Art Gallery of New South Wales, Nolan Gallery, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery  

1989 Transcription Drawings Syme Dodson Gallery Sydney     

COLLECTIONS

COMMISSIONS

An Index of Kindness National Trust of Australia Sydney Euphemisms for the Intimate Enemy Nuit Blance Festival City of Toronto

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BIO NOTES

Ruark Lewis, born 1960 in Australia, is a visual artist and writer producing in a wide range of media such as painting, drawing, installation, artists-books, public art, theatre, performances, audio and video works. His art tends toward conceptual language, exploring the poetics of spatial history, involving chance procedures and architectural strategies of improvisation. He often collaborates in a method he calls transcription (drawing), with other poets, experimental and radiophonic composers, choreographers, anthropologists, language & visual artists and writers. He has made significant projects in partnership with writer Paul Carter, Nathalie Sarraute, Angelika Fremd & Ingaborg Bachamann, Rainer Linz, Jutta Hell & Dieter Baumann and Jonathan Jones. In 2006 he participated in the Biennale of Sydney. In 2007 he worked with the choreographer Alan Schacher on The Babel Project in Sydney . He also worked on a sight specific installation called An Index of Kindness (with Jonathan Jones) at Post-Museum in Singapore in late 2007. He is currently making various out-of-gallery installations and sound works in the City of Sydney , focussing on the theme of home, the homeless, huts and the public house under the rubric of An Index of Kindness. In October 2008 he will create a public art installation and soundwork called Euphemisms for the Intimate Enemy for Nuit Blanche festival the City of Toronto .  

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