Damon Lewis - Curriculum Vitae
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.