Ky Lewis is an award winning South London-based multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and curator whose practice employing experimental photography and printmaking looks at the relationship between nature and the human in urban settings. Her work is driven by a powerful need to record trees in an urban setting both in all their glory displaying a full canopy and those that have been subjugated by the human suffering extreme pollarding which create visually jarring forms. She is interested in storytelling, psychogeography, and the cyclical nature of the landscape.
Drawn to the fleeting emotional resonance of a site— subtle shifts in form, light and atmosphere that linger at the edges of awareness. Guided by the ethos of Wabi-sabi, her work embraces the beauty of imperfection, growth, and decay. Working in the landscape each element of her practice feeds the other, attention to detail, light and dark leading to darkroom manipulation and a variety of intaglio printmaking methods, currently using drypoint in situ to document trees. Using light, chemistry and ink she distills the sensory essence of a place into tangible form
Her practice uses sustainable methods as much as possible in keeping with her interest in the environment she portrays.
Ky Lewis is an award winning South London-based multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and curator whose practice employing experimental photography and printmaking looks at the relationship between nature and the human in urban settings. Her work is driven by a powerful need to record trees in an urban setting both in all their glory displaying a full canopy and those that have been subjugated by the human suffering extreme pollarding which create visually jarring forms. She is interested in storytelling, psychogeography, and the cyclical nature of the landscape.
Drawn to the fleeting emotional resonance of a site— subtle shifts in form, light and atmosphere that linger at the edges of awareness. Guided by the ethos of Wabi-sabi, her work embraces the beauty of imperfection, growth, and decay. Working in the landscape each element of her practice feeds the other, attention to detail, light and dark leading to darkroom manipulation and a variety of intaglio printmaking methods, currently using drypoint in situ to document trees. Using light, chemistry and ink she distills the sensory essence of a place into tangible form
Her practice uses sustainable methods as much as possible in keeping with her interest in the environment she portrays.
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