Presence & Absence, 2025
Medium

Mixed Media


Dimensions

70.0 x 70.0 cm


Year Created

2025

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Small < 80cm
Landscape orientation
Portrait orientation

About this artwork

From my Chaos & Order Collection, this works explores the dualities of life through a reimagintion of the mandala, an ancient archetypal symbol of wholeness. Created using my signature technique of combing expressive abstract painting with interlocking geometric forms, achieve through using a laser cutter. The Chaos of the abstraction is balanced with the Order of the geometric, symbolically bringing balance to opposites. The works invites you to see yourself within it, and project your own meaning up on it.

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Lewis Deeney

Feb 09, 2025

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Lewis Deeney’s work is instantly recognisable, his unique creative process uses interlocking geometric forms to bring a paradoxical harmony to the gestural abstraction of the painted surface. The result is a compelling interplay of chaos and order, creating transcendent paintings with an iridescent glow as colours glimmer upon the textured surface. Scottish-born; Lewis grew up in Dumbarton before moving to Dundee to pursue a contemporary art degree in which he graduated with a first-class honor in 2020. Lewis won both the James Guthrie Orchar Memorial Prize and the Farquar Reid Trust Prize during the degree show, as well as being selected for the Freelands Painting Prize. After being awarded the William S Phillips award, a bursary for his tuition fees, Lewis continued his studies at DJCAD graduating with merit in MFA Art & Humanities in 2021. Lewis has had three successful solo shows in Scotland and his paintings have been collected by public institutions and private collectors across the UK & Europe. In 2023 Lewis was shortlisted for the Chaiya Art & Spirituality Award and represented Scotland at the Interceltique Festival, Lorient, France. Currently Lewis works in his hometown of Dumbarton, near Glasgow, Scotland.

Curriculum Vitae

Education
2020 · Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design

Contemporary Art Practice

2021 · Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design

MFA Art & Humanities

2024 · Strathclyde University

PGDE Art & Design Teaching

2023 · Robert Gordon University

Post Graduate in Creative Entrepeneurship

Solo Exhibitions
Oct 1, 2021 - Nov 14, 2021

Everyone & No One

Jan 1, 2022 - Feb 1, 2022

Becoming

Jun 1, 2023 - Jul 1, 2023

An Odyssey of Chaos

Group Exhibitions
Oct 1, 2021 - Nov 14, 2021

Everyone & No One

Jan 1, 2022 - Feb 1, 2022

Becoming

Jun 1, 2023 - Jul 1, 2023

An Odyssey of Chaos

Honors and Awards
Jul 1, 2020

Freelands Painting Prize

Apr 1, 2021

Visual Art Open Emerging Artist Award- Shortlisted

Sep 1, 2020

William S Phillips Award

Jun 1, 2020

James Guthrie Orchar Memorial Award- University of Dundee

Jun 1, 2020

Farquhar Reid Trust Prize- University of Dundee

Apr 7, 2023

Chaiya Art Award- Finalist

Grants
Mar 1, 2023

VACMA- West Dunbartonshire

Jul 1, 2023

Creative Scotland Open Fund

Achievements

3+ Solo Shows
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2+ Degrees
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