Sanchia Lewis C.V.
Art Education
1981-82 City & Guilds of London Art School, London
Certificate of Advanced Printmaking (passed with distinction)
Stephen Goodman Engraving Award
1979-81 Certificate in Printmaking
1978-79 Medway College of Design, Kent
Foundation Course
1983 - onward
After leaving College I continued working as an artist. in 2001 I moved to a house in Nunhead with an Edwardian builders yard to the side, my painting / etching studio is in a two storey converted stable building overlooking a golf course.
Selected Exhibitions
2018 Arterie Gallery, East Dulwich, London SE22
2013 Honor Oak Gallery, Summer Exhibition, London SE23
2008 Honor Oak Gallery, Summer Exhibition, London SE23
2004 Honor Oak Gallery, Summer Exhibition, London SE23
2003 Westbourne Gallery, London SW8
2000 Honor Oak Gallery, Summer Exhibition, London SE23
The Limelight Gallery, London SE13
1997 Gold Test Centre, Torgon, Switzerland
1995 Horniman Museum, London SE23
1991 Blenhiem Gallery, London W11
1990 Acorn Gallery, Liverpool
1986 Gallery on the Heath, Blackheath, London SE3
1984 Galerie Miniature, Berlin, Germany
1983 Crest Hotel, Groningen, Holland
1982 Crest Hotel, Friesland, Holland
1981 Town Hall Gallery, Groningen, Holland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Hidden House Gallery, Nunhead, London SE15
2023 - onward Nunhead Art Trail, London SE15
2022 Peckham Festival, Open Studio
2021 Nunhead Open One, Salvation Army Hall, Nunhead SE15
Peckham Festival
2019 Arterie Gallery, East Dulwich, London SE22
Dulwich Open House
Gosnells Mead, Peckham Rye, London SE15
2018 The Lovely Gallery Summer Exhibition, London SE26
2014 - onward Hayletts Gallery, Maldon Essex
2013-16 Nunhead Art Trail, London SE15
2013 Brumfield’s Gallery, Boise, Idaho, USA
2007 The Print Rack, Weekend Gallery, Hastings
Summer Exhibition, Castle Gallery, Inverness
2006 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London W1
Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge
Originals 06, Mall Gallery, London SW1
2005 Serena Hall Gallery, Summer Exhibition, Southwold, Suffolk
Originals 05, Mall Gallery, London SW1
2001 The Red Dot Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk
Salon des Artistes, Queensgate, London SW7
2000 The Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone, Kent
The Arts Club, Piccadilly, London W1
Real Turner Prize Show 2000, Pure Gallery, London EC2
1998 The Yellow Gallery, London W6
Maymie White Contemporary Art, London W8
1996 National Print Exhibition, Mall Gallery, London SW11
Musee Adzak, Paris, France
1995 Rye Art Gallery, East Sussex
National Open Print Exhibition, Whitleys, London W2
1994 Just Art, Mall Gallery, London SW1
1993
The Space Upstairs Gallery, Cork Street, London W1
Glyn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, Wales
Selected as one of the Artists to represent G.B. at the International
Gallery of
Contemporary Printmaking, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
1991 Lviv Gallery, and tour of other cities in the then Soviet Union
Museum of Fine Art, Valetta, Malta
1990 Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Brett Art Gallery, Hadleigh, Suffolk
1989 Christmas Exhibition, St Thomas’s Hospital, SE1
1988 Summer Exhibition, Assembly rooms, Norwich
Royal Society of Painter Etcher and Engravers, Bankside Gallery SE1
1987 Printmakers Council Exhibition, Royal Festival Hall SE1
1983 Woodlands Art Gallery, London SE3
1982 Town Hall, Reinickendorf, Berlin, Germany
Selected Art Fairs
2000-04 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London SW11
2001-02 Art on Paper Fair, Royal College of Art, London SW11
2000 The Brighton Festival
1999 Mode Contemporary Home, Business Design Centre, London N1
The Contemporary Print Fair, Atlantis Gallery, London E1
1998-02 Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London SW11
1997-01 Spitalfields Alternative Art Market, London E1
Prizes and Awards
1995 The Marlbourgh Gallery Prize, National Print Exhibition, Whitleys W2
1993 First Prize , Portobello Open Exhibition
1984 Princes Trust Award
1982 Stephen Goodman Engraving Award
Animation
1995-98 Collaborated with Vivienne Jones on Channel 4 animation project designing animated oil pastel backgrounds for a 35mm animated short. Shown at Cardiff Animation Festival, Anecy International Film Festival, France, London Film Festival at Museum of the moving image, Southbank. Many other Festivals including Munich, Krakow, Leipzig, Chicago, Stuttgart, Zagreb and Hiroshima.
Shown on Channel 4 Fourmations 1998.
Archives
2024. Foresight Limited, London EC4R 9AY
Publications
2022 Featured in Beauty of the Beast published by Mascot Media Ltd
2021 Featured in Kingfisher published by Mascot Media Ltd
2019 Featured in Paw Prints published by Mascot Media Ltd
2016 Featured in The Little Chicken Book published by Mascot Media Ltd
2013 Featured in The Printmakers Cat published by Mascot Media Ltd
04-onward Dictionary of International Biography, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge
02-onward The Art World Directory, Published by Art Review
01-onward Who’s Who in Art, The Art Trade Press Ltd