Damon Lewis - Curriculum Vitae

 

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Relevant formal training:

Two year fulltime workshop based diploma course under George Ingham at the Canberra School of Art Wood Workshop, Australian National University, completed 1997.

 

Relevant History:

2005 - 06: Running own workshop full time as a designer maker.

Currently projects include display cabinets for the new Paspaley Pearls showroom in Darwin City.

2002-04: Policy Officer for Arts NT, Northern Territory Government.

1997-2002: Founding Manager, Milingimbi Art and Cultural Centre, Arnhemland, Northern Territory.

1995-96: Full-time study at the Canberra School of Art Wood Workshop

1994: Running own woodturning studio and shared retail outlet in Byron Bay, NSW.

1990-94: Running own woodturning studio near Cobargo, NSW.

1989-90: Production artist in residence for Tilba Woodturning Gallery, NSW.

1987-89: Worked on various architect designed residential building projects in the Bega Valley, NSW.

 

Exhibitions:

1992: Bega Woodcraft Awards.

1993: Bega Woodcraft Awards.

1994: Byron Artisans Gallery and numerous group exhibitions throughout the year.

1994: Bega Woodcraft Awards.

1995: Bega Woodcraft Awards.

1996: Canberra Wood Guild Awards, Return to the White Palace & On Equal Ground, Graduating Exhibitions Canberra School of Art.

1997: Bega Woodcraft Awards.

 

Awards:

1993: Highly Commended woodturning category Bega Woodcraft Awards.

1994: Second prize and High Commended woodturning category, Bega Woodcraft Awards.

1996: First prize carving category, Canberra Wood Guild Awards, Merit Award furniture category Bega Woodcraft Awards.

1997, Second prize furniture category, Highly Commended carving category, Bega Woodcraft Awards.

 

Publications:

The Australian Woodworker, 1995, 1997.

Craft Arts International, 1998.

Resident Magazine, 2006.

 

 

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