Dave Lewis: Field Work - The AOA Commission Exhibition
6 Feb - 28 March 2010, Artsway Gallery, Sway, Hants
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Image: Video still from the exhibition Field Work: Sway Dave Lewis 2010. |
Autograph ABP, ArtSway and Oriel Davis Gallery collaborated to commission artist Dave Lewis to develop new work with exhibitions at both ArtSway and Oriel Davis Gallery.
Dave Lewis is a photographer and film maker interested in identity and the ways in which people feel they belong to a particular place. Field Work is a new body of work generated through Lewis' innovative combination of the role of the artist as a 'stranger', and that of the anthropologist as someone concerned with understanding cultural identity.
In the process of gathering first-hand evidence in two particular locations, Sway in the New Forest in Hampshire, and Newtown in mid-Wales, Lewis draws productive parallels between these two roles, suggesting the way they pursue similar methods of investigation and share some common aims. Sway and Newtown are linked through this process of interviewing local residents and documenting events such as festivals and carnivals. Lewis attempts to understand the differences he encounters and their distance from his own cultural background and hometown of London. The resulting work examines the role of the individual within society, how boundaries with outsiders are perceived, and how both of these relate to how people identify themselves with a particular place and cultural identity.
For his exhibition at ArtSway, Lewis will present a series of large-scale landscape photographs taken on the outskirts of Newtown and Sway, and a video work which presents two filmed 'journey's' following Lewis the 'stranger' as he conducts his research.
Saturday 6 February 2010 at 3pm
Dave Lewis will discuss Field Work with ArtSway curator Peter Bonnell and Autograph ABP curator Indra Khanna. Entrance is free.
For more information please contact the venue directly. Artsway Station Road Sway Lymington SO41 6BA +44 01590 682 260 www.artsway.org.uk. Trains leave every hour from Waterloo to Sway |
