Lewis Chamberlain

Biography
Lewis Chamberlain

Awards

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, New York
First Prize (ING Barings) Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
BP Portrait Award, Commended (twice) – National Portrait Gallery, London

Lewis Chamberlain was born in East Yorkshire in 1966.  After graduating from the Slade School of Art in 1988 he lived and worked in London until 2005 and is now based in East Sussex. He exhibited twice at the Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery in New York in the 1990’s and has since shown extensively in the UK.  He is primarily known for his detailed paintings and pencil drawings, often of children’s toys in domestic interiors, and as a portrait artist.  He is a Pollock-Krasner Award winner and a previous winner of the Discerning Eye Competition and has shown in six BP Portrait Awards.  He has been commissioned to produce art for a wide range of clients and his work is held in private and public collections in the UK and abroad.
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Lewis Chamberlain

 

Selected Exhibitions

2022
Domestic Bliss, Beaux Arts Bath

2019
‘The Summer Show’, Beaux Arts Bath

2018
Derwent Art Prize – Mall Galleries, London
‘Works for Christmas’, Beaux Arts Bath

2017
Jerwood Drawing Prize – Jerwood Space, London
‘Artists of Fame and Promise’ Summer show, Beaux Arts Bath
‘Still’, Still Life exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath

1993, 1998 – 2001, 2016      BP Portrait Award – National Portrait Gallery, London

2016
Jerwood Drawing Prize – Jerwood Space, London
Columbia Threadneedle Prize – Mall Galleries, London

2008 – 2015      London Art Fair – Islington, London

2014
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy of Arts, London

2010
The Hiding Place Solo Show, James Hyman Gallery, Saville Row, London
The Winter Visitor and Other Drawings – The Drawing Gallery, Shropshire

2008
Childish Things – Andrews, Baselitz, Brassai, Chamberlain, Kertez, Moore, Rego, Weston – James Hyman Gallery, Saville Row, London

2007
Things That Go, Solo Show, James Hyman Gallery, Saville Row, London

2006
Paintings by Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, Lewis Chamberlain and Glenys Johnson – James Hyman Gallery, Masons Yard, London
Contemporary British Drawing – Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendall, Cumbria
Remaking Reality – Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

2004
Lewis Chamberlain, Recent Paintings and Drawings – James Hyman Gallery, Masons Yard, London

2002
Solo Show, Barings Bank, London

2001
Merchant Ivory Commission, New York

1996
Drawing – Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London (with Edmund Chamberlain)

1993
Solo Exhibition, Piccadilly Gallery, Cork Street, London
Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery, West Houston Street, New York (with Edmund Chamberlain)

1991
Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery, New York

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