SARAH LEWIS CV
Qualifications:
2018 / MA Artists’ Film & Moving Image / Distinction / Goldsmiths University of London
Work:
InTheCloset Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Participating Artist (solo show) (Feb 15th – March 10th 2024)
Bouffant! – 3 mins 16 sec / moving image work
In The Closet is dedicated to showing artistic projects that question the meaning behind gender, identity, sexuality, invisibility, discomfort, censorship, inclusiveness or lack thereof.
Echo Gone Wrong, Hair Reveals what Makes us Human. An interview with Sarah Lewis by Aistė Marija Stankevičiūtė https://echogonewrong.com/hair-reveals-what-makes-us-human-an-interview-with-sarah-lewis/
Resolution Festival 2024
Compete For Me – by Lewis Walker
Co-collaborator and performer at The Place, (9/2/2024)
Fine Cell Work – bi-weekly volunteer teaching embroidery to womens prisoners at HMP Downview (Jan 2024 – ongoing)
Hopscotch.org – facillitated a weekly weaving workshopo for a group of Afghan women refugees (Sept – Dec 2023)
CUTS x Lower Stable Street – outdoor light box exhibition featuring portraits shot by Steve Brooks in the ‘90s and ‘00s in the basement of cult Soho hairdressers CUTS – programmed by Kiosk N1C, an event space on Lower Stable Street, Coals Drop Yard, London (6/9/2023)
CUTS book launch at Reference Point, 180 The Strand, London (1/6/2023)
‘No Ifs Or Buts’ (15mins excerpts) screening / Q&A (artists talk) with Jonah Freud
Locarno Film Festival Pro, Switzerland; 2-7th August, 2023
No Ifs Or Buts selected to compete in the First Look on UK Cinema section.
-won ‘Jannuzzi Smith Award’
-won ‘Le Film Français Award
Watching Collectively @ Beursschouwburg, Brussels (9/2/2022)
‘Short Straw’ screened with showcased films by the participating collectives
In collaboration with Auguste Orts, Beursschouwburg, Harlan Levey Projects & elephy
Felt Culture / Helen Beard / Unit Drops (2021) – bag collaboration with artist Helen Beard. ‘Temporarily Banishing Isolation’ 2019 was the first limited edition bag. To celebrate International Women’s Day 2021, we released a bag based on Beards painting ‘If They Be Two, They Are Two So’ (2021) through Unit Drops. 10% of the profit went to Rise, an independent, Brighton-based registered charity that helps people affected by domestic abuse.
‘Reality Sandwiches Mk3’ : Lost In Transit
An alternative audio guide byBallpark Collectivethat nominates reverie as an optimal way finding.A live event that begins atDeptford Bridge DLR and finishes at Elverson Road DLR. The audio guide was delivered via Wiretapper: London App which can be downloaded from either the App Store or Google Play. Deptford X Fringe Festival, 2021
Deptford X – ‘Reality Sandwiches Mk2’ Group show featuring Ballpark Collective, SET Lewisham (front Gallery) Oct 2019
BBC Radio London– Robert Elms show, (17/10/18)
Hoxton Hotel, Holborn– No Ifs Or Buts, Screening and Q&A, March 2019
SETspace – ‘Reality Sandwiches’ featured installed, and screen-based work of BallPark Collective (founded by artists Susanne Dietz, Max Leach, Sarah Lewis, Aimée Neat, and Sun Park). Ballpark is a London-based collective led by artists working with moving image. March, 2019
Goldsmiths University–Insofar: Screening and Panel Discussion, Nov 2018. Participating Artist
No Ifs Or Buts (90 min documentary, 2018) – Director/Producer. Premiered at BFI London Film Festival www.noifsorbuts.co.uk Q & A after each screening www.noifsorbuts.co.uk
The Boy Who Wouldn’t Die (90 min documentary) – work in progress. Director/Producer http://www.theboywhowouldntdie.com Supported by OXFAM Australia and Documentary Australia Foundation
The Next Layer– (July, 2018) installation in public exhibition at Goldsmiths University. MA Artists’ Film & Moving Final Show – Artists talk
The Foundry Gallery, London, (5 mins) 2018 – film accompanying Tooney Phillips’ show.
Nowness– Stranger than Fiction : Cuts, (13/10/2015) Pietro Pravettoni
I am a Peace Soldierinitiative, co-founded by Sarah Lewis and David Nyuol Vincent, in conjunction with RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Key note speaker at the launch was OXFAM Australia CEO, Tim Costello (2014), www.iamapeacesoldier.com
National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)– 14 films featuring individual contemporary artists participating in ‘Melbourne Now’, 2013. Shown on app and at NGV during the show.
Gertrude Street Projection Festival– 2012 – collaboration with Spacecraft https://vimeo.com/50214714
Video Diaries, 2011. Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) Melbourne. Curator, Artist talk – opening night speech
National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) 2013– 14 films featuring individual contemporary artists participating in Exhibiton – Melbourne Now
The Staring Girl, 2006 (10 min) Writer / Director. Festivals – AFIA (Denmark), European Media Arts Festival, Germany, IFCT (MCA Washington) Centre for Contemporary Photography (Melb / Australia) – artist talk, Madcat (San Francisco / USA), International Women’s Film Festival (06/Germany)
Nesting, 2006. Be Mine 69 (Group Show). Smith St Gallery. Melbourne, Australia
Crowded House (30 min documentary). Screened on Channel 4 (UK) and ABC (Australia) 1997
In Development:
ReMember Me (90 min documentary) featuring actor Dickie Beau at the Almeida Theatre, London – in development. Director/Producer.
Client commissions:
Hampstead Theatre – filmed / documented ‘Remember Me’ by Dickie Beau (4K) 2023
Theatre Royal Bath – filming Dickie Beau’s ‘Shamanism’ (4K) 2022
The Foundry Gallery, London, (5 mins) 2018 – film exploring the process of artist Tooney Phillips.
Focus 12, (3 mins) 2018 – rehabilitation centre’s collaboration with Bush Adventures
Deakin University, Victoria, Australia (10 mins) 2017– Wrote / directed / produced / filmed / edited 10 minute documentary on Mission to Seafarers ‘Sounding Histories’ focussing on 6 artists involved.
Pete Swann– Artist Film (4 mins) 2016
National Gallery of Victoria– ‘Melbourne Now’ show – Produced, directed, shot and edited 14 films featuring artists who were participating in the ‘Flags for Melbourne’ show at the NGV. Films were shown at Melbourne Now and NGV app. 2014
Melbourne Now– (2014) West Gate Bridge flag, designed by four Australian artists – Kate Daw, Jon Campbell, Brook Andrew and Helen Johnson and flown on the West Gate Bridge.
Spacecraft Leather Bags– (3 mins) 2013 Wrote, directed, filmed, edited – film documenting leather bag collaboration 2013 (3 Mins)
Conquest Ink– Sixty Sisters(2013) – Wrote, directed, shot, edited the first of 60 films focussing on different women interviewed about their diverse lives.
Emergent Melbourne– (2013) Produced, directed, shot, edited a series of 5 short films for featuring different residents -as part of development of an online source of information about Melbourne and the people who live here.
Banyule City Council(Ivanhoe, Australia) 2013 – 6 minute film showing council services offered to the community
Banyule City Council(Rosanna, Australia) 2013
HACC Aged & Disability Services within the community provided by HACC (5 mins)
Spacecraft – 2012, Backing Cloth Artwork Animation https://vimeo.com/50214714
Banyule Community Health – e-focus (12 mins)2012 – profiling volunteers from the Heidelberg West community / e-focus 2012 (12 mins)
Buna Reserve Community Garden(5 mins) 2012– the project is a result of a partnership between Banyule Community Health, Banyule City Council and Heidelberg West Neighbourhood Renewal.
Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)Melbourne
Curator- Video Diaries,Nov 2011
Neighbourhood Renewal HeidelbergWest– (17 mins) 2012 – explores the impact of NR within the community over the last seven years
Youth Foundations 3081, (5 mins) 2012- Bendigo Bank celebrating the Aboriginal Debutante Ball
NEPCP(partnerships for Healthy Communities) / Hume Whittlesea Primary Partnership; Collecting Storiesexplores the Indigenous experience of Primary Health Care Providers in Victoria (23 mins) 2012
NAB / Australia Cares / Schools First– The Last Post; Chess squared (5 mins x 2)
Department of Education, Vic Govt–2009 – travelled to NYC with Brendan Murray (Vic teacher of the year) to film/document KIPP Charter schools
Fitzroy Learning Network– educational (6 mins) 2009
Funding / Research Grants
HMRC(2018) – film tax credit (production funding)
Documentary Australia Foundation(2016) – $25.000 AUS philanthropic funding for ‘A New Beginning’.
Phundee (2015) – developed and ran a successful crowdfunding campaign to raise completion funds for ‘No Ifs Or Buts’. Raised £23,000
OXFAM Australia (2014) – Funding forA New Beginningdocumentary
Documentary Australia Foundation (2016) – production funding
School Focused Youth Services (SFYS) (2013)– ‘Project Brokerage’ grant to assist in CCP show – Video Diaries
Arts Victoria(2011)– ‘Artists in Schools’ grant
Department of Education2009 – Victoria Education travel grant to document KIPP schools in NYC.
Screen Australia(2008)– $20.000 documentary production funding for ‘No Ifs or Buts’
Australian Film Commision (AFC) travel grant (2006) to present Staring Girlat EMAF (Germany)
Film Victoria– (2005)– mentorship grant with editor – CUTS the movie
Kunstlehaus Bethanien, Berlin(1997)– selected to participate in FOCAL workshops, Zurich Switzerland.
Publications–
Rose Dodd, CUTS: radical style, razor sharp hair and ‘90s youth culture, The Face (8/6/2023)
https://theface.com/style/cuts-radical-style-razor-sharp-hair-and-90s-youth-culture-steve-brooks-book-soho-london-fashion-beauty
CUTS the book (2nd edition), co-published by Gimme 5 and Dobedo, 2023
Paola de Carolis, Mix & Cuts, Corriere della Sera (Style Magazine), (29/11/18)
Marta Galli, No Ifs Or Buts, Vogue Italia, Nov 2018 (pg 118-121)
Gosee Creative News Services,(5/11/18
Hynam Kendall, Portraits from the Cult London Hair Salon frequented by Bowie and Gaultier Another Man9/11/2018
Nirpal Dhaliwal, Cutting edge: the 80s hair salon that styled fashion,The Guardian, 9/10/2018
CUTS the book, co-published by Gimme 5 and Dobedo, 2018
Dominique Sisley, A Cut Above,Time Out, 16/10/2018 (pg 27-28)
Steven Yatsko, Twenty years in the making ‘Cuts’, the documentary about London’s cult hair destination premiered at BFI, models.com(23/10/2018)
From salon to cinema: two decades of celebrity Cuts to finally hit the screens,Evening Standard, 19/10/18 (pg 31)
Stuart Brumfitt, The Radical Hair Salon at the Heart of the 80s British Counterculture, Another Man, (17/10/18
Shannon Peter, New documentary charts 18 years in the life of London’s cult salon ‘Cuts’
i-D Vice(17/10/2018)
Emma Firth, Celebrating the most radical Hair Salon of the 80’s London,Hunger TV (Oct 2018)
Chop Shop,Interview Magazine(November 2016)
London Live (TV)– Sarah Lewis & Nic Tuft discussing No Ifs Or Buts (formally Cuts the Movie) 30/4/2015
Soho Radio– Sarah Lewis & Pete Dowland (29/4/2015)
Dalya Alberge, Cuts: the 1980s hair salon that gave stars their cutting edge.The Observer (18/4/2015)
Hymann Kendall, The Soho Salon that styled subculture,Dazed Digital(29/4/2015)
Marie Claire Italia, London Curling, (June 2015)
L’Officiel Hommes Italia, Cuts the Movie(Autumn 2015)
Andy Thomas, Cuts Hairdressers, Jocks & Nerds, Summer 2015 (pg 58-62)
SBS radio (Australia) – Sarah Lewis discusses the ‘I am a Peace Soldier’ launch with journalist Bertrand Tungandame15/7/2014)
774am / ABC radio(Australia) – David Nyuol Vincent discussing the ‘I am a Peace Soldier’ launch on the Jon Faine show (8/7/2014)