Lucile Lewin is an award winning British artist working in London. Her work explores the collision between nature and humanity.
Lewin’s sculptures are fractured metaphors for human experience through time. This is a deliberate ambiguity that reflects the questions Lewin asks of life. The sculptures made in metal, glass and clay, are both personal and political: abstractions alluding simultaneously to figure, environment and architecture, symbolic of the interdependent ‘chaos we have created’. Social inequalities and distrust, brought about by power struggles over natural, spiritual and economic forces, are nevertheless counterbalanced by a sense of wonder about frontiers of knowledge and the imagination.
Her series titles, such as Second Nature and A Secret Life of a Pea: Post- Apocalyptic Regeneration, convey this potential. Lewin follows a line of humanistic enquiry from the Age of Enlightenment to artificial intelligence, a fashioning of identity concerning consciousness and conscience.
Before pursuing a career in fine art, graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2017, Lewin had an influential career in fashion as Founder and Creative Director of Whistles and Creative Director of Liberty. A residency in Dehua, China inspired her sculptures for the exhibition Blanc de Chine: A Continuous Conversation at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2019.