biography
Anna Lewis is an artist and designer maker exploring ideas through the mixture of jewellery, fashion, photography and film. Originally trained as a jewellery designer, she has exhibited in contemporary craft galleries and events all over the world including a solo show in Japan. Anna’s work has been featured in many international design publications including Elle Décor, living etc., Crafts, Selvedge and The Times magazine.
Anna has also diversifies into large-scale installation and collaborated more recently with photographers and filmmakers on several projects including music videos and fashion film.
Notions of the body, beauty and making in mixed media remain central to the work. An innovative use of mixed media often combine with delicate printed imagery with materials such as feathers, leather, wood, silk, stones, silver and vintage objects. Most of the work is created by hand but also utilizes new technologies such as laser cutting, digital print and 3d printing.
Inspiration stems from on-going research into memorial, superstition, death and beauty, the uncanny and an overall feeling of storytelling and dark otherworldliness