SIMON LEWTY  
         
 

 

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Simon Lewty 1941–2021, Art First, London
2021 Simon Lewty & The Nereids, The Lettering Arts Trust Centre, Suffolk
2016

Simon Lewty/Will Maclean, Charting a Decade II, 2006 – 2016, Art First, London

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The SIGNificance of Writing, Leamington Spa Gallery & Museum

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2013 Absorption, Art First, London
2011 Cries and Charms, Courtauld Institute of Art Library
  Conjuring Images From Words, Saison Poetry Library and Members Area, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre
2010 Major Works: 1985–2010, Art First, London
2008 The Self as a Stranger, Art First, London
2006 Simon Lewty and Will Maclean: Charting a Decade, 1995 - 2005, Art First, London

2004

Eclipses, Art First, London

Eclipses, Art First, New York

1999

Episodes, Art First, London

1999

Towards Drawing, Touring exhibition to Leicester, Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Preston, Bristol, Worcester, Leamington Spa

1994

Front Room Focus, Art First

  Voices From Lost Fields, Art First

1992

Austin Desmond & Phipps in association with Anne Berthoud

Messages from the Past, Midlands Contemporary Art Ltd, Birmingham

Terra Incognita, Castle Museum, Nottingham and Mead Gallery, University of Warwick

1989

Chosen Objects, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

1988

Anne Berthoud Gallery

1987

Anne Berthoud Gallery

1985

Anne Berthoud Gallery, London

 

Serpentine Gallery, London

1984

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

1968

Woodstock Gallery, London



Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Art First London, Celebrating 30 Years!
2023 February’s Feast, Group Exhibition featuring Kevin Laycock, Gillian Lever, Simon Lewty, Alex Lowery, Bridget Macdonald, Jack Milroy, Simon Morley, Donald Teskey, Mimei Thompson, Graeme Williams
2018 Paper Matters II: Christopher Cook, Simon Lewty, Will Maclean, Bridget Macdonald, Jack Milroy (Art First in residence at the Eagle Gallery)
2017 Paper Matters: Christopher Cook, Simon Lewty, Bridget Macdonald, Will Maclean, Jack Milroy, Simon Morley. (Art First in residence at the Eagle Gallery)
2016

Bookish, Thomas Park Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, 17 March – 16 April 2016. Curated by Simon Morley.

Jonathan Callan, Simon Lewty, Simon Morley, Walker & Walker.

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2010 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2009 Beyond the Written Word, The Art Stable, Child Okeford (with Susan Michie)
  ZOOM – Looking Back/Looking Forward, Art First, London
2008 Dialogue, Art First, London
2007 Mapping the Imagination, Victoria and Albert Museum
  The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (selected by Charles Saumarez-Smith)
2006 Translations, 2006, Art First, London

2004

…On Paper, Art First, London

2000

Blake’s Heaven: A Tribute Exhibition to William Blake at Scolar Fine Art, in association with James Huntington-Whiteley

1996

Back to Nature, Art First, London

1995

Art '95, London, with Art First

National Trust Centenary Exhibition at Christies, London

1994

Art '94, London, Art First

Flowers, Coram Gallery, London

Drawing Pairs, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York

Contemporary Art Society Art Market, London

1992

The Poetry Show, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London

The Beauty in Breathing, Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, Florida

1991

The Discerning Eye Mall Galleries, London

1990

Upturned Ark, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

1989

Launch of Midlands Contemporary Art, Birmingham

The Tree of Life, South Bank Centre (and tour)

Texts, Inscriptions and Calligraphy in Contemporary Art, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston

1988

Artists in National Parks, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (and tour)

Fragments of False Houses, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London

1987

John Moores 15 Liverpool

Athena Art Awards, Barbican Art Centre, London

Knowing Your Place Artists' Parish Maps, Common Ground, London

Cleveland 8th International Drawing Biennale (Prize-winner)

1986

Walking and Falling, Interim Art and Plymouth Arts Centre collaboration (toured to Kettle's Yard, Cambridge)

Living Art Pavilion Arts Council Ideal Home Exhibition,London

Unheard Music - Contemporary Art on the Theme of Gardens, Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery

Contrariwise - Surrealism and Britain 1930-86, Glynn

Vivian Art Gallery (and tour)

1985

John Moores 14 Liverpool (Prizewinner)

Figure 1: Young Figurative Painters and Sculptors, Aberystwyth Arts Centre

1984

TSWA National Open Art Exhibition

Midland View 3 (Prizewinner)

1983

Stoke-on-Trent City Art Gallery (with 79 Group)

1982

Midland View 2

1981

With Assistance From... , Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (and touring)

6th Cleveland International Drawing Biennale