Photo by Alan Pryke.Ruark Lewis b.1960 is a visual artist and writer producing in a wide range of media such as painting, installation, public art, performance, audio and video art. His art tends toward conceptual language, exploring the poetics of spatial history, involving chance procedures and architectural strategies of improvisation. He often collaborates in a method he calls transcription (drawing), with poets, experimental and radiophonic composers, anthropologists, & other visual artists.
He has made significant projects in partnership with Paul Carter, Nathalie Sarraute, Angelika Fremd & Ingaborg Bachamann, Rainer Linz, Jutta Hell & Dieter Baumann and Jonathan Jones. 2003 commissioned by the Berlin Poetry Festival to make a dance work Banalities. 2006 he participated in the Biennale of Sydney. 2007 at Carriageworks he worked with the choreographer Alan Schacher on The Babel Project, an installationHomeland Illuminations with Jonathan Jones and made a site-specific installation Post-Museum Singapore called An Index of Kindness. In 2008 he created a public art installation and sound work Euphemisms for The Intimate Enemy (with composer Rainer Linz) for the City of Toronto in Nuit Blanche Festivaland International Electroacoustic&Polymedia Art Festival Belgrade. Early in 2009 he installed 3 out-of-gallery works Housing The Seafaring Nation in the City of Sydney that focused on the subject of homelessness and inner-city public housing. His published works include 2001 False Narratives, NMA 1999 Depth of Translation-The Book of Raft NMA 1997 Just for Nothing Barbarism & Monograph Press.
