Simon Lewty 1941-2021
Simon Lewty & The Nereids
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Lettering Arts Centre
Snape Maltings
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Lettering Arts Centre
Snape Maltings
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Simon Lewty
Nereid List: Galatea - Dexamene
2019
ink on tissue on paper
25.2 x 25.4 cm
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Simon Lewty
Of Beach Shrines
2019
coloured ink on paper
26.4 x 26.7 cm
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Simon Lewty
List: Psamathe - Amphitrite
2019
ink on tissue paper
35.5 x 35.5 cm
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Simon Lewty
A Voice, A Recognition, 2017
Pencil on paper
207 x 120cm
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Simon Lewty
A Voice, A Recognition (detail), 2017
Pencil on paper
207 x 120cm
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Simon Lewty
Of Remote Beaches - Of the Infinity of the Child, 2017
ink on paper
48.5 x 76.5cm
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Installation view with Three Transcriptions of the Sea. 2016, 154 x 24cm, far left.
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Detail of Three Transcriptions From the Sea, 2016, acrylic in on paper, 154 x 24cm
Simon Lewty & The Nereids
18 May - 4 July 2021
In collaboration with the Lettering Arts Trust
The Lettering Arts Trust Centre
Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP
The exhibition takes its title from a group of small recent drawings inspired by Lewty’s love of Greek mythology. The Nereids in particular captured his imagination. Known as the fifty benign sea goddesses whose father was Nereus, the ‘honest old man of the sea’ and whose mother was Doris, the daughter of Oceanus, they symbolise everything that is beautiful and kind about the sea and its related waterways. Their melodious voices could be heard by all those who inhabited their mythological world.
