Borrowing forms, concepts, materials and aesthetics from the worlds of advertising and digital culture and then channeling them through his own unique cosmology, Lewis Doherty creates idiosyncratic, enigmatic and often humorous modern allegories that make monuments out of that which is considered trivial or childish. Working across a wide variety of media, including sculpture, video, installation and illustration Lewis explores the tensions between the personal and the public, the illegitimate and the legitimate, the tiny and the monumental. Lewis has exhibited Australia wide, including at Perth’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Nicholas Projects in Melbourne, Hobart’s Constance ARI, Carriageworks in Sydney and twice at Underbelly Arts Festival on Cockatoo Island. Lewis lives and works in Sydney and completed his BFA Honours at UNSW Art & Design.
