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peter-lewis
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Status
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active
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Joined
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Mar 11, 2007
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Location
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New Zealand
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Interests
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Collage art, electronic music, my son Dali
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Website
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http://www.warpart.co.nz/
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Occupation
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web designer
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Biography
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Peter Lewis is a paper collage artist based in New Zealand. He has been mutating, mutilating and reconfiguring popular culture and its images since 1990. Deftly slicing with his scalpel, he seeks to shock the viewer's eye out of its complacency with surreal juxtaposition and silly humour. His influences and inspirations include Winston Smith, Max Ernst, Mark Ryden and Robert Williams.
He intentionally uses nostalgic images and pictures taken from old children's books, not only because they appeal to his keen sense of personal nostalgia and revisiting the obsessions of his childhood (robots, monsters, rocketships, dinosaurs), but also because the visual language of childhood evokes memories of a time when magic was everywhere and you either hadn't heard of the 'accepted view of the world' with all its rules and limitations, or you were unwilling to accept it and preferred to make up your own, seeing mystery and intrigue everywhere.
The magic still exists, you just have to learn to turn the filters off, to really open your eyes and absorb the beauty of everything around you.
Peter's work has been featured on CD covers in New Zealand and the US, and in San Francisco art magazine Churn. He has exhibited pieces throughout New Zealand, in Germany, and briefly and unauthorised-edly at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York.
After many years of working exclusively on paper, he has recently begun collaging directly onto canvas, using mixed media colour wash backgrounds. These works have proved very popular and many have been sold.
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