JO LEWIS

Born in 1967, Jo Lewis is a British visual artist who lives and works in London. After training at the University of Edinburgh and the Valencia School of Fine Art, she began her career with a number of collaborative projects, including an interdisciplinary residency and exhibition at the Aldeburgh Festival, and work with the Dane Hurst Dance Company. Her drawing practice explores the natural flow that underpins our environmental and physical connectivity, which appeals to many institutions, with Jo Lewis exhibiting in the UK, Paris, Lyon and Valencia. Her work has been commissioned and collected by La Maison Hermès, Barclays Bank, More London Collection of Contemporary Art, Ripple USA, Ashstead Hospital, 22 Bishopsgate London and Commonwealth Bank in Australia.

In 2016, she was commissioned by SCP Seoul to produce a 40m-long work printed on glass for the front of their flagship store in Beijing. She then spends a month in residence in southwest China, supported by the Arts Council. In 2020, the artist was shortlisted for the Edge Arts Visions of Science prize and invited to present her work at the Drawing Research Network Conference: Temporal Drawing. She was subsequently commissioned by the Royal College of Music in London to mark the centenary of Benjamin Britten. Work in the permanent collection of the RCM, London.

Alongside her creative work, Jo Lewis has been a visiting lecturer at the London Film School since 2010 and at the Paris College of Art since 2020. She has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and has worked on innovative drawing projects with filmmakers, animators, scriptwriters, designers and musicians.