Apple Cider Vinegar With Mother

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, 100 Parliament Street

Storytelling, or more specifically allegory, plays a significant role in the artist’s work. In Lewis’s own words, ‘squeezing a cultural signifier through the lens of another class or dialect creates an opportunity for new meaning’. His mother tongue Cymraeg/Welsh haunts his second language creating, as he describes of this work, ‘a nonsensical world where cultural signs lose their meanings and gain new ones, where a new age elixir for longevity gets lost in translation and becomes a catching-up session with the ghost of the artist’s mother’.

Iwan Lewis was born in Bangor, North Wales, in 1980, and raised in the small Welsh-speaking village of Llanllyfni. Since graduating with an MA Painting from the Royal College of Art, he has worked as an artist and lecturer. Lewis moved to Caergybi in 2016, where he now lives and works. He was awarded First Prize in Painting, Welsh Artist of the Year, in 2012, and nominated for The Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists in 2017. Solo exhibitions include Annwn (2020) at Sid Motion Gallery, London, and Gallery 6, MOSTYN, Llandudno (2016). Lewis is co-founder of the artist-led projects, Studio Cybi, with Rebecca Gould, in 2016. Studio Cybi were awarded The Wales Venice 10 Artes Mundi Commission in 2023.

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Materials & Techniques

Artist

Iwan Lewis (1980 - )

Title

Apple Cider Vinegar With Mother

Date

2021

Medium

Painting - Oil and wax on canvas

Dimensions

height: 57 cm; width: 53 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the artist, January 2023, through the Art XUK project 2022-23

Provenance

Purchased from the artist, January 2023, through the Art XUK project 2022-23

GAC number

19126