GAB LEWIS

SPACE 1

Exhibition Dates : 17 - 29 March 2026
Opening Reception : Wed 18 March 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

 FORCES AT WORK

Forces at Work serves as a visual contemplation of collective experiences, emotions and contemporary anxieties. Recognising the unwavering power in collective endurance and emotion, this series draws on personal observations of living as a creative practitioner in our contemporary setting.

This body of work draws on the vast and complex theme of emotion in its many iterations and the undeniable role it plays in the creative process. Exploring such notions as imposter syndrome, self doubt, upholding performative personas and juggling the many aspects of an arts career; these experiences reveal themselves as common and relatable in the creative community while also prominent throughout art history. Although this series focuses on ideas of anxiety and apprehension, it also celebrates the virtue of vulnerability and its multiformity in the creative community.

Gab Lewis is a Melbourne based artist and arts worker specialising in painting, with a focus on figuration and text-based imagery. Sourcing references from an ever-growing personal archive, her practice is grounded in the use of printed ephemera, digital archives, and found source material. This layered approach allows Gab to explore themes of memory, identity, and emotional resonance through imagery that is at once anonymous and familiar.

This series explores the emotional commonalities of the human experience, particularly through the perspective of artists living and creating within today’s shifting social, political, and cultural climate.