About
Lucille Lewin is a South African born British sculptor working in porcelain, glass and metal. Founder and director of Whistles (1976-2001) and Creative Director of Liberty (2007-2008). Lewin left fashion for a career in sculpture with a Diploma in Fine Art and Ceramics from CityLit (2014). In 2017, she completed her Masters at the Royal College of Art. She has shown at Christie’s (2017), Connolly’s (2018), Messum’s Wiltshire (2017) and Collect at the Saatchi Gallery (2018). Lewin is the current winner of the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize (2017). Her work is held in private collections internationally.
For over ten years, Lucille has been making ceramic art that explores the collision between nature and humanity. Highly evocative, her seemingly fragile yet forceful organic sculptures assert the resilient energies that power the natural world whilst also revealing the frailties that make it subject to ecological collapse and unthinking human destruction. Her work also explores the warning of the dangers of reckless technological advances such as AI – advances which she believes we too readily accept.
In response, she has created two distinct bodies of work: sculptures where fine forms, resembling twigs, leaves, bark or bones are interspersed with transparent bubbles, tendrils and tubes of glass; and a series of sculptures marrying robust terracotta structures – suggestive of human figurers or trees – with copper elements. It is through clay that Lucille’s work, which may seem to find humanity at odds with nature, ultimately asserts our kinship with nature. In her hands, clay gives form to elusive thoughts, incommunicable through language, enabling her to reach deep in imagination to a place where nature and human nature coincide.
