Ruark Lewis
Convenor, Performance and Creative Arts
Based in Sydney, Ruark is a visual artist and writer producing in a wide range of media such as painting, drawing, installation, artists-books, public art, theatre, performances, audio and video works. His art tends toward conceptual language, exploring the poetics of spatial history, involving chance procedures and architectural strategies of improvisation. He often collaborates in a method he calls transcription-drawing, with other poets, experimental and radiophonic composers, choreographers, anthropologists, language and visual artists and writers. Ruark’s recent works have included The Babel Project (with choreographer Alan Schacher) in Sydney 2007, a sight-specific installation called An Index of Kindness (with Jonathan Jones) at Post-Museum in Sydney in late 2007 and a public art installation and sound work called Euphemisms for the Intimate Enemy for the City of Toronto in Nuit Blanche Festival.