Richard Lewer is a Melbourne-based visual artist who works with video and animation, painting, drawing and performance.
[1][2] Lewer has been labelled as a contemporary social realist largely driven by a desire to explain patterns and connections within crime, sport and religion.
[5][6] Lewer won the Wallace Art Award in 2008 for a painting from a series called Skill, Discipline, Training.
[8][9][10][11] Lewer was the winner of the Basil Sellers Art Prize in 2016, with his submission of a series of oil paintings titled 'The Theatre of Sports'.
[15] In 2010, he completed an artist's residency with the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York.