Actua size: 59.4 x 84 cm
Lewis Andrews's work acts as a conduit between the realms of art and science. The supply of information from science fuels the production of visual material, which communicates the knowledge of a scientific endeavour. In short, Lewis’s work focuses on dealing with complex thoughts, ideas and facts within nature and science. Some explore those in which we seem to be overshadowed and overpowered in comparison by the vast distances, size or quantities. Others investigate moments of extreme power, creation and rebirth on a molecular scale or on a scale comparable to the universe. Questioning our relationships, place and role within the universe, environment and natural spaces.
Lewis Andrews moved to Leeds in 2016 to study a BA(Hons) in Fine Art at Leeds Arts University. After graduating in 2019, Lewis continues to work in Leeds. In 2022, Lewis completed his Postgraduate Fine Arts Degree also at Leeds Arts University, graduating with a Masters Degree in the Creative Arts. During his Master’s Degree, Lewis’s practice became deeply focused on the methodology of translating information and data from sources within science into artworks. Lewis has continued to work and build upon this method in his work constructing a theory of working called ‘The Informative Encounter’.
The detection of ripples in space-time created by objects of high mass offers a new way to view the cosmos from when it was a young universe comparable to when the first optical telescope was invented. Everything in the universe produces vibrations within space-time. However, with most objects including Earth, they are undetectable due to how weak they are from smaller masses. However, titanic collisions between high-mass objects like colliding Neutron Stars & Black Holes generate these gravitational waves in strengths which we can detect here on Earth despite the fact they occurred halfway across the universe billions of years ago.
Breaking down the distance between these colossal gravitational machines and the viewer, Lewis’s ‘Singularity’ & 'Gravitational Waves' works have been created with the use of gravity on a much smaller scale. Created using a careful set up of light, water and gravity and then through various digital editing, the work attempts to open a window up close and personal with some of the true titans of the cosmos. Somewhere even light cannot escape if it strays too close.
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