Richard Lewer exhibits regularly in Australia and New Zealand and is known for his paintings and delicately beautiful drawings which evocatively rework some of life’s less pleasant elements – crime scenes, illness, horror movies and extreme events. The work is accessible, familiar, with a critical edge that probes what is beautiful and sinister about our society without injecting a moralizing tone or political message. Lewer’s focus is, however, less concerned with telling the concrete facts of an case instead his work explores the way that places can become repositories for the psychic residue of extreme events, painful activities or our deepest fears.

Lewer has been exhibiting for more than twenty years and has an established http://www.gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/artists/...