| 2010 | Tiny Stadiums Festival Pact Theatre Sydney Video Poems Sydney Writers Festival Artist-in-Residence Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre Yirrkala, NE Arnhem Land |
| 2009 | Liquid Architecture Performance Space Sydney Skills and Development Grant VAB Australia Council 8th Overload Poetry Festival Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne |
| 2008 | Sound installation Nuit Blanche Festival Liberty Street City of Toronto |
| 2007 | Artist-in-Residence Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Sydney Artist-in-Residence p-10 Singapore Performance International Performance Festival Theatreworks Singapore |
| 2006 | Installation Biennale of Sydney – Zones of Contact Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 2003 | Dance performance LiteraturWERKstatt-Poesie Festival’03 Berlin with Rabato Tanzcompagnie Travel Grant International Development & Marketing Fund Australia Council |
| 2001 | Artist-in-Residence Bundanon Trust |
| 2000 | Installation Sydney Olympic Games & Paralympic Games Festivals |
| 1999 | Artist-in-Residence Cité Internationale des Arts Paris |
| 1997 | 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 |
| 1996 | Grant Visual Arts/Crafts Board Australia Council |
| 1995 | Lecturer Electronic and Temporal Arts University of Sydney |
| 1993 | Installation Gallerie Mar Estrada Verona Festival Mallorca |
| 1992 | Melbourne International Festival Australian Centre Contemporary Art |
| 1991 | Artist-in-Residence Cité Internationale des Arts Paris |
| 1984 | BA.VA Sydney College of Arts |
2010 Some Enchanted Evenings Scotia Plaza Toronto Silent Spaces Macquarie University Gallery Sydney Radical Printmaking Cross Arts Projects Sydney Project 57 SNO Living Deadly Monash Gallery of Art Melbourne SNO Gallery 9 Sydney UND9 Schwartz Gallery London In My Empty House University of Technology Auckland
2009 Viscopy Sydney Carriageworks Sydney SLOT Sydney Housing The Seafaring Nation National Trust Sydney Peleton Sydney Avoiding Myth & Message MCA Sydney Cadences Macquarie University Sydney HOMELESSNESS Peleton Sydney SNO Sydney An Index of Kindness The Narrows Melbourne Just for Nothing Horus & Deloris Sydney
2008 International Electroacoustic & Polymedia Art Festival Guarnerius Center of Arts Belgrade (with Rainer Linz) The Archive Johan Deumens Gallery Haarlem Freestyle Books
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
1987 Transcription Drawings King Street Studios Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales Queensland Art Gallery Art Gallery of South Australia Art Gallery of Western Australia Museum of Contemporary Art London Institute – Chelsea School of Art & Design Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris Kunstbibliothek Berlin Museum of the Book Den Haag The British Library Victoria & Albert Museum Butler Library, Colombia University NY State Library of Queensland State Library of Victoria State Library of New South Wales National Library of Australia Olympic Park Authority New England Regional Gallery Wollongong City Gallery Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Bundonon Trust Monash University Library
| 2010 | Residence Randwick City Council Sydney |
| 2009 | Housing the Seafaring Nation National Trust of Australia Sydney |
| 2008 | An Index of Kindness National Trust of Australia Sydney Euphemisms for the Intimate Enemy Nuit Blance Festival City of Toronto |
| 2007 | Illuminations with Jonathan Jones Performance Space at Carriageworks Sydney |
| 2006 | Transcription for the Perfect Place 15th Biennale of Sydney MCA |
| 2005 | Banalities for the Perfect House with Rainer Linz The Performance Space Sydney |
| 2003 | Banalities/Banalitäten with Jutta Hell Berlin Poetry Festival LiteraturWERKstatt Berlin |
| 1999 | Relay with Paul Carter Olympic Coordination Authority Sydney |
| 1995 | Raft with Paul Carter Art Gallery of NSW Sydney |
2010 Dictionary Australian Artists UNSW Banalities for The Barricades Unrealised Projects Vol.3 Silent Spaces Macquarie University Gallery, Pornotopias Litteraria Pragensia Nathaniel Tarn Jacket 39 2009 SLOT Art Monthly 91
An Index of Kindness Dougal Phillips The Narrows Un-kindness of Ravens Gertrude Street Cache Gary Sangster Viscopy (un)Coverings: art, writing and the book Anna Gibbs Harmonic Temors Gasworks Euphemisms Newsletter No.27 Institute Postcolonial Studies Vol.29.2 Haema Sivinasen Artlink Cadences Yugi Sone Macquarie University Gallery Avoiding Myth & Message Glenn Barkley MCA 2008 Euphemisms Newsletter No.26 Institute Postcolonial Studies Transgression, Translation, Transcription Keith Gallasch Real-Time 2008 Dark Writing: Geography Performance Design Paul Carter University of Hawaii Press Signals-Diversions of Ruark Lewis Vsevolod Vlaskine 2007 Art & America Lilly Wei Run Artists Run Asialink cata Dougal Philips interview Jacket Astrid Lorange 2006 Eyeline Reuben Keehan Biennale of Sydney cata. Diane Losche Lino Diane Losche interview The Program Lisa Greenaway interview Cones of Zontact Sophie Coombs interview 2005 ANTHOLOGY ed. MOP Interesting Times Alex Selenitsch MCA catalogue Sydney Morning Herald Peter McCullum Sept 12 2003 Days in White Ingeborg Bachmann (trans. Angelika Fremd) Five Island Press RAFT documentary ZDF TV Berlin (dir. Frank Vorphal) transmitted Germany Switzerland Austria France Ireland 2002 Art & Australia Vol.40.3 Rachel Kent 2001 Eyeline Cassie Plate False Narratives NMA Publications 2000 Australian Architecture Now Chris Johnson Thames & Hudson 1999 Depth of Translation – The Book of Raft (with Paul Carter) NMA Publications 1998 Untitled Eat Carpet SBS TV 1997 Just for Nothing (with Nathalie Sarraute) Barbarism & Monograph Press Spatial Issue New Literature Review No.34 ed. Probyn, F & Paull, J 1990 TE AR IL EVE ND Monograph Press
Studio notes: Euphemisms for The Intimate Enemy Institute of Postcolonial Studies
Interview: Sean O’Brien Homeland Illuminations
Installation and performance notes: Banalities for the Perfect House
Review: Peter McCallum Ruark Lewis and Rainer Linz SMH 12 Sept 2005
Essay: Vsevolod Vlaskine Signals:Diversions of Ruark Lewis
Essay: Homage and Histories Tin Shed Gallery University of Sydney
Review: Astrid Lorange The Poetics of Liveliness Jacket 34 – October 2007
Review: An Index of Kindness Post-Museum Singapore 2007
Installation notes: Euphemisms for The Intimate Enemy Nuit Blanche Festival Toronto’08
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 .
