© Richard Lloyd Lewis, from Abiogenesis, My Home, Our Home

These bodies of work are linked by this thematic lens: making the often-invisible nature of the global climate and the ecological crisis more visible using conceptual, lens-based art techniques. Each body of work speaks to a different aspect of the climate and ecological crisis: sea level rise; coral bleaching; habitat loss and environmental destruction; deforestation; melting glaciers; plastic pollution. – Michael O. Snyder

© Richard Lloyd Lewis, from Abiogenesis, My Home, Our Home

Richard Lloyd Lewis is a Welsh artist – Research interests and projects focus on site specific locations that resonate a psychological resonance that is associated to that place, be it archaeological, historical, social or through collective memory. Lewis has a master’s degree in photography from The University of The Arts London – LCC, and a BA (Hons) Degree from Exeter School of Art & Design – The University of Plymouth. Lewis has been a Senior Academic at The Arts University Bournemouth since 2008 and spends most of his time on projects in remote areas in Wales.

© Richard Lloyd Lewis, from Abiogenesis, My Home, Our Home

Abiogenesis, My Home, Our Home

The premise of the project is to invite the viewer to observe an Earth, it could be our Earth, or a distant Dead Planet.

The landscape Lewis invites us to observe, both in micro and macrocosm, through the mountain and its particulars, is an earth, perhaps the one we currently inhabit, perhaps not. We are asked to consider home in the vastness of geologic temporality rather than through the all too brief window of an individual existence.

The main theme of the work is the Anthropocene period, looking specifically at humanities impact on the environment, using geology as its evidence. Referencing his family history, and a life-long passion for geology and space, Lewis provides an abstract study of a scarred landscape, and possibly a scarred future. – Richard Lloyd Lewis

© Richard Lloyd Lewis, from Abiogenesis, My Home, Our Home

© Richard Lloyd Lewis, from Abiogenesis, My Home, Our Home

© Richard Lloyd Lewis, from Abiogenesis, My Home, Our Home

© Richard Lloyd Lewis, from Abiogenesis, My Home, Our Home

© Richard Lloyd Lewis, from Abiogenesis, My Home, Our Home

© Richard Lloyd Lewis, from Abiogenesis, My Home, Our Home

© Richard Lloyd Lewis, from Abiogenesis, My Home, Our Home

© Richard Lloyd Lewis, from Abiogenesis, My Home, Our Home

© Richard Lloyd Lewis, from Abiogenesis, My Home, Our Home