Richard Lewer

Title: New Zealand Fairy Tern

Year: 2020

Materials: Oil on epoxy coated steel

Size: 500 x 500mm

Price: $6,800.00

Purchased from Suite Gallery, Wellington/Auckland, October 2021.

Buying group: Trish Stevenson, Ken Horner, John Campbell.

Richard Lewer

Born in NZ in 1970 – lives in Australia

Bachelor of Fine Art, Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland University, 1989-1992

Master of Visual Arts, Victoria College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2000

Multiple awards, Multiple residencies, Multiple exhibitions

Work includes drawing, painting and video/animation – and explore a broad range of
themes

Showed “Collective Memory” at Auckland Art Gallery 2020

Developed “Endangered birds” series in 2020

The NZ Fairy Tern (Tara iti) is New Zealand’s rarest native breeding bird, with about 40
individuals left in the wild.

A subspecies of the fairy tern endemic to New Zealand, it is tThreatened by introduced predators, extreme storms and
tides, beach activity, and waterfront development. It nests at Papakanui sandspit in Kaipara Harbour,
the Waipu sandspit, and the Mangawhai sandspit.

Collections

Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)
Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGoNSW)
Art Gallery of South Australia
Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)
Melbourne University Ian Potter Museum
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
University of Auckland
University of Waikato
Victoria University
Waikato Museum