With Handspan, he devised the internationally successful Lift Em Up Socks, a semi-autobiographical multi-media work.
In the 1990s he toured in acclaimed jazz duo, Lewis & Young through Europe, Asia and Australia.
He has played with Jane Rutter, Eve Duncan, Uli Klein and composer George Dreyfus.
[6] Lewis considered his artistic creations to be "medicine and good stories for people – like a Corroboree ground but in the modern world".
He worked on Dust Echoes, an Indigenous animated website of Dreamtime stories produced by the ABC.
[10] Lewis had been living in Beswick, South Arnhem Land since 2001 where he has initiated a cultural foundation, the Djilpin Arts Aboriginal Corporation,[11] which hosts the "Walking with the Spirits" festival each year.