Lewis Chamberlain
Lewis Chamberlain was born in East Yorkshire in 1966. After graduating from the Slade School of Art in 1988 he lived and worked in London until 2005 and is now based in East Sussex. He exhibited twice at the Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery in New York in the 1990’s and has since shown extensively in the UK. He is primarily known for his detailed paintings and pencil drawings, often of children’s toys in domestic interiors, and as a portrait artist. He is a Pollock-Krasner Award winner and a previous winner of the Discerning Eye Competition and has shown in six BP Portrait Awards. He has been commissioned to produce art for a wide range of clients and his work is held in private and public collections in the UK and abroad.
Awards
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, New York
First Prize (ING Barings) Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
BP Portrait Award, Commended (twice) – National Portrait Gallery, London
Selected Exhibitions
2022
Domestic Bliss, Beaux Arts Bath
2019
‘The Summer Show’, Beaux Arts Bath
2018
Derwent Art Prize – Mall Galleries, London
‘Works for Christmas’, Beaux Arts Bath
2017
Jerwood Drawing Prize – Jerwood Space, London
‘Artists of Fame and Promise’ Summer show, Beaux Arts Bath
‘Still’, Still Life exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath
1993, 1998 – 2001, 2016 BP Portrait Award – National Portrait Gallery, London
2016
Jerwood Drawing Prize – Jerwood Space, London
Columbia Threadneedle Prize – Mall Galleries, London
2008 – 2015 London Art Fair – Islington, London
2014
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy of Arts, London
2010
The Hiding Place Solo Show, James Hyman Gallery, Saville Row, London
The Winter Visitor and Other Drawings – The Drawing Gallery, Shropshire
2008
Childish Things – Andrews, Baselitz, Brassai, Chamberlain, Kertez, Moore, Rego, Weston – James Hyman Gallery, Saville Row, London
2007
Things That Go, Solo Show, James Hyman Gallery, Saville Row, London
2006
Paintings by Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, Lewis Chamberlain and Glenys Johnson – James Hyman Gallery, Masons Yard, London
Contemporary British Drawing – Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendall, Cumbria
Remaking Reality – Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
2004
Lewis Chamberlain, Recent Paintings and Drawings – James Hyman Gallery, Masons Yard, London
2002
Solo Show, Barings Bank, London
2001
Merchant Ivory Commission, New York
1996
Drawing – Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London (with Edmund Chamberlain)
1993
Solo Exhibition, Piccadilly Gallery, Cork Street, London
Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery, West Houston Street, New York (with Edmund Chamberlain)
1991
Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery, New York