U & Not U 1D, 2020
Medium

Acrylic Paint


Dimensions

105.0 x 73.0 cm


Year Created

2020

$3,150.00 USD
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Large > 80cm
Portrait orientation

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We are who we are because of our technology. From fire, to language, to vaccinations and smart phones, technology is humanities ability to harness, control and store the energy of the natural world. We manipulate the world for our advantage and as a result have affected our own evolution, we shape our technology, and our technology shapes us. We cannot be defined without it; our technology is an extension of who we are. The dawn of the digital age is a new chapter in the story of humanity, with digital technology we do not only manipulate the world around us but have created a new world within it, digital technology is a new realm of existence, an artificial dimension in which we inhabit. We now coexist between the physical and the digital world simultaneously. This is symbolically expressed within the works creative process, which uses both digital and physical means of creation. The painted abstract surface is contrasted with the digitally constructed geometric composition, which is laser cut out of the physical painting, before rearranging the individual segments to compose the finished painting. The work is a dynamic interplay between the physical and digital and is an expression of both simultaneously. The work asks us to consider our relationship with technology on both a personal and collective level and to question the ways in which technology is changing our understanding of who we believe ourselves to be. Elusive and intentionally enigmatic the work is simultaneously of everyone and no one, you and not you, the work asks you to see yourself in another and them in you. Let the paintings be an environmental for self-exploration, the doorway into your unconscious as you question the digital landscape we have collectively created, question who you are, question humanity and what our future will be.

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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

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3+ Solo Shows
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2+ Degrees
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