Lewis Brander

Lewis Brander, born in London in 1995, studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London. After graduating in 2018 Brander spent two years living in Athens, Greece. His paintings can be seen as observations of the shifts in natural light in both Northern and Southern Europe, and as odes to the colour of the sky.

Brander’s work references sites of historical significance, particularly in London, as well as his own familial history; his ancestors having been refugees from Eastern Europe who settled in East London, near where the artist now lives and works. Brander combines these histories, geographical and emotional, with an interpretation of art-historical movements including English romanticism, post-war American abstraction and the School of London painters. His paintings are a device for which light and atmosphere are not only observed and recorded, but a place in which the language and history of painting is played out. Critic Tom Morton has commented that what Brander paints is “not only space, but also time”.

In 2023 Lewis Brander was awarded a place on the inaugural Tracey Emin Artist Residency [T.E.A.R], based in Margate, UK, and is represented by Vardaxoglou Gallery.