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In this artist's talk, Richard Lewer discusses his works Never shall be forgotten – a mother’s story (2017) and Worse Luck I am Still Here (2014) currently on show in Love, Displaced.

Richard Lewer is a Melbourne-based visual artist who works with video and animation, painting, drawing and performance. He is known for his video and animation, paintings, and delicately beautiful drawings, which evocatively rework some of life’s less pleasant elements – crime scenes, illness, horror movies and extreme events.

Lewer has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally and his work is included in state museums and university collections in Australia and New Zealand.

Recent exhibitions include The National: New Australian Art, Carriageworks, Australia, (2017), Sappers & Shrapnel: Contemporary Art and the Art of the Trenches, Art Gallery of South Australia (2016), The Custom of the Sea, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, (2015) and Footy Fever, Canberra Contemporary Art Space (2015).

UWA Campus Partner: Perth Festival

Love, Displaced

9 February - 11 May 2019

In this century, feelings of love and empathy are often filtered through social media platforms and 24-hour news cycles. In Love, Displaced, film- based and video art offers new and innovative modes of navigating the white noise of contemporary life towards places of re-sensitisation and emotional engagement.

Curated by Felicity Fenner, the exhibition brings together some of the world’s leading contemporary artists: Jacobus Capone, Richard Lewer (NZ), Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg, Christian Thompson; AES+F (Russia), Jeremy Deller and Cecilia Bengolea (UK, Argentina/France), Roee Rosen (Israel). Three of the Australian artists have specific links to WA, either their birthplace or the subject of works presented.

A Perth Festival exhibition supported by Visual Arts Program Partner Wesfarmers Arts.

Image: Richard Lewer, Worse Luck I am Still Here (still, detail), 2014, video and animation, duration: 00:04:45min, edition of 5. Courtesy of the artist.