Lewis Robinson MRSS

Lewis Robinson was born in Leicester 1960. He studied at Loughborough, Hull and Newcastle. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally in France, Slovakia and the USA. He has been commissioned to produce public art for a variety of locations and contexts in the North East of England and has worked in private collections in the UK and abroad. He is a former Tutor at Cleveland College of Art and Design 1987-2007and a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Teesside University 2007-18. He works from his studio in West Yorkshire.

He has been making sculpture in a range of materials for over four decades. Increasingly, found objects have been appropriated in his work providing the starting point for an idea. He strives to reinvent the ordinary and everyday things we see round us bringing together the made and readymade. The work he makes reflects an uncertainty and unpredictability but also point to the fact that things can be rebuilt, repaired and remade but not always in the way we would expect. To this end there is often a sense of dislocation and reinvention, unfamiliarising the familiar. This has been an underpinning theme which continues to fascinate his curiosity.