Lot 40: Richard Lewer No More Monsters mixed media on

Richard Lewer No More Monsters mixed media on steel title inscribe 500mm x 500mm Exhibited: Oedipus Rex Gallery Lewer's guileless execution has a charm that brings out a strangely appealing beauty of the macabre situations and events toiled over in the work. Yet we find his images and drive are not one of a morbid nature, but one that we all share, in the experience upon witnessing an accident or the reading of a murder in a paper, more specifically the "Truth". What Lewer shares with the tabloids is a demographic, the suburban and the sub cultural groups therein, though in a reversal of the later providing for the former. Richard Lewer was the winner of the National Drawing Exhibition 2004, joint winner of the Norsewear Art Awards 2006 and the Waikato National Painting and Printmaking Award 2006. Richard Lewer is represented by Oedipus Rex, Auckland; Mark Hutchins, Wellington and Legge, Sydney. Alex Le Feuvre