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I am a cross-media artist based at Primary in Nottingham.  I specialise in painting, drawing, live art performance, walkshops and intervention.


​My practice is informed by my interest in psychogeography, ritual and all things folkloric.   

                                                                 
I undertake private commissions, I exhibit,  teach, mentor and  perform... as a live artist, a spoken word artist and as a musician. I facilitate workshops in visual art, carnival arts,  various psychogeographic activities (documented derives, portraits of contexts, environmental poetry...) and music...from folk to samba.

 
Since graduating from art school I have worked as a gardener, an archaeological illustrator, a gallery education officer, an actor, a carnival artist, a corporate trainer, a musician, a secular chaplain, a celebrant and a lecturer. I have taught at universities, colleges, prisons, hospitals, schools, and art galleries across the UK and beyond (I continue to teach drawing at Nottingham Trent University and I am an  Associate Artist at Nottingham Contemporary). Throughout this time I have maintained a fine art practice: making work in the studio, exhibiting and performing in galleries. The work I undertake within socially engaged, educational, public, folkloric, gallery and studio contexts is all part of one practice. I resist the imposition of barriers that divide artists and  resist systems of classification where ever I can. 

FEES
  • ​I charge £275 a day for private     commissions
  • public performances
  • public art projects and 
  • workshops within community     and educational contexts.

           Studio visits and meetings are free.


Holy Trinity (installation), Southampton Gallery (North + South) 2007 and Quad, Derby, 2005
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​​North + South 

Chris Lewis-Jones’s surreal works, which transform subjects as varied as a cricketer, the Red Cross Knight, toys, and tea trays into a wry palimpsest of English traditions, particularly as presented for  tourist consumption, have a sympathetic  ancestor in Burra’s apparently serene southern landscapes, which upon closer inspection reveal themselves to be full of sinister implications, insinuations and booby traps.
 
Davidson, Peter, North  + South (Dividing England),  Reg Vardy, Sunderland, 2007
ISBN 978 1 873757 56 7p.24



North + South, Southamptom Gallery, 2007

Green and Pleasant Land, assemblage, North+South, Southampton Gallery
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Red Cross, assemblage, North+South, Southampton Gallery, 2007
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