Ky Lewis
Ky Lewis, is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator and educator based in South London with a practice focussed on the landscape using experimental photography and printmaking. Her interests are history, human activity on the land, environmental activism with regard to local trees and site responsive location work, images are imbued with atmosphere and emotions redolent of her time in nature. She works with printmaking methods often drawing in the landscape directly onto Tetra Paks whilst making long exposure large format pinhole photographs. Sustainability is important, she reuses and recycles as part of her practice. Her works respond to the ‘urban forest’ within South London, looking at the value of the green canopy, started as a photographic project the work has expanded to include drypoints, recording dramatically pollarded street trees as a counterpoint to local specimen trees in parks. Trained in graphics, then illustration and printmaking at Camberwell School of Art. She has exhibited globally with awards, Jacksons Art Prize; PX3; Denis Rousell, Julia Margaret Cameron, Recent shows, Jacksons Art Prize-Bankside Gallery & Affordable Art Fair 2025; Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair; ING Discerning Eye 2024;”Ironbridge Fine Arts Printmaking show" 2024, "Symbiosis I, II and III" a co-curated series Brighton Photofringe 2024, "Open Press Project" Künstlerwerkstatt Germany 2024, solo: “Breathe-A Dialogue with The Urban Forest” Hundred Years Gallery 2023, "Bainbridge Open" The Handbag Factory 2023, "Enlighten” Griffin Museum of Photography Boston 2022, "Other Ways Of Seeing” Plaxall Gallery New York 2022. Her work is held in the V&A and private collections.
Ky Lewis, is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator and educator based in South London with a practice focussed on the landscape using experimental photography and printmaking. Her interests are history, human activity on the land, environmental activism with regard to local trees and site responsive location work, images are imbued with atmosphere and emotions redolent of her time in nature. She works with printmaking methods often drawing in the landscape directly onto Tetra Paks whilst making long exposure large format pinhole photographs. Sustainability is important, she reuses and recycles as part of her practice. Her works respond to the ‘urban forest’ within South London, looking at the value of the green canopy, started as a photographic project the work has expanded to include drypoints, recording dramatically pollarded street trees as a counterpoint to local specimen trees in parks. Trained in graphics, then illustration and printmaking at Camberwell School of Art. She has exhibited globally with awards, Jacksons Art Prize; PX3; Denis Rousell, Julia Margaret Cameron, Recent shows, Jacksons Art Prize-Bankside Gallery & Affordable Art Fair 2025; Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair; ING Discerning Eye 2024;”Ironbridge Fine Arts Printmaking show" 2024, "Symbiosis I, II and III" a co-curated series Brighton Photofringe 2024, "Open Press Project" Künstlerwerkstatt Germany 2024, solo: “Breathe-A Dialogue with The Urban Forest” Hundred Years Gallery 2023, "Bainbridge Open" The Handbag Factory 2023, "Enlighten” Griffin Museum of Photography Boston 2022, "Other Ways Of Seeing” Plaxall Gallery New York 2022. Her work is held in the V&A and private collections.