Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Lewis Paul
Senior Lecturer
Lewis Paul produces films, photographic work and sculptural objects that consider a broad historical relationship between class (working men), family and forms of representation, LGBQT+, resulting in work that has been exhibited both in the UK and internationally.
Lewis joined the Northern Film School in 2000. Lewis led the development of the Filmmaking BA and contributes to the continuing development of practice research PhD’s in the Leeds School of Arts.
Lewis is Co-Director of the Professional Doctorate in Creative Arts in the wider LSA. On the BA Filmmaking Lewis leads Experimental Film and the specialist Filmmaking Dissertation. His Doctoral research was completed in 2014 with the conclusion of a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London. Lewis produces films, photographic work and sculptural objects that consider a broad historical relationship between class (working men), family and forms of representation, LGBQT+, resulting in work that has been exhibited both in the UK and internationally.
Lewis is interested in the ways we gather, reflect, develop and tell stories, creative narrative intersections and illusions and treasure material objects as contributors to social and subjective memory. His skills encompass, editing and compositing, camera, sound recording, tailoring and sewing, costume and making fabric objects.
Lewis is interested in the ways we gather, reflect, develop and tell stories, creative narrative intersections and illusions and treasure material objects as contributors to social and subjective memory. His skills encompass, editing and compositing, camera, sound recording, tailoring and sewing, costume and making fabric objects.
Prior to joining the Northern Film School Lewis completed the influential ’Electronic Imaging’ Postgraduate Programme at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, in 1999 and a BA (hons) Mixed Media Art at The University of Westminster in 1996. Lewis is also a qualified aeronautical engineer.
As assistant Director of the Professional Doctorate in Creative Arts (DCA) and as Director of studies for Arts based PhD’s both written and practice based, Lewis is supervising a range of Doctorate projects across Film, Image History and creative audio Fine Art. Lewis has been an examiner for a range of creative Doctorate projects both PhD and Arts based Professional Doctorates and continues to support and nurture this important contribution to the wider field of arts practice.
Selected examples of exhibitions, commissions and symposiums:
- Backgrounds & Backdrops, mixed media (2022)
- Little Pink Bush, film (2017)
- 25 Westminster, film: Dirty Bottom, (2015)
- One Way or Another II, Aberdeen, Scotland, (2013)
- Directional Forces, Artoll, Germany (2012)
- Concretum, Dilston Grove, London (2011)
- Sensory Urbanism Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, (2007)
- Open 24hours, DNerve lab, Museum Night, Amsterdam (2003)
- European media art festival Osnabruck (film work) Selected program (2000)
- Millennial Minutes, Miniature Film and video. (Film work) touring show, Scotland and UK (2000)
- Documentary Evidence, (we are not your audience), Babel digital arts project, commissioned by Lighthouse Brighton, and Southeast Arts. 35mm film portraits, screened before main features on four screens at the Odeon Hastings July to August 2002. (2001-2002)
Current Teaching
- Professional Doctorate in Creative Arts
- PhD Director or studies
- BA Filmmaking Experimental Film
- BA Filmmaking Dissertation
Research Interests
Lewis Paul’s Doctoral research was completed in 2014 with the conclusion of a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London. The practice based thesis was titled Story, Narrative, Material. This practice based research explores the interaction between story, narrative, material and related concepts, investigation the position of lyrical discourse as an artist’s strategy in considering autobiographical identity as a reclaimed space, the boundaries of which are adoption and LGBQT+ identity.
Conceptually, Lewis’ research is informed by a matrix of boundary points, for example: masculine identity and gender politics, (concepts that relate to the working man such as class, craft skill, visual identity, sartorial codes and conventions) and on an experiential level, genetic and learned behaviour as considered through the nature and nurture debates concerning adoption. Lewis is interested in the ways we gather, reflect, develop and tell stories, creative narrative intersections and illusions and treasure material objects as contributors to social and subjective memory.
Lewis’ research is situated in film and art-based practice. It is informed by historical notions of visual narrative, cinematic form and visual perception. Over-arching themes relate to possible functions of synchronic and diachronic narrative structures and their potential relationships to the study of representation, perception and concepts of pathos.
Ask Me About
- Adoption
- LGBQT+
- Art
- Class
- Design
- Film
- Gender
- Masculinity
- Photography
Selected Outputs
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Paul L RE: A BERMONDSEY ARTISTS' GROUP EXHIBITION Lake Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK. 6 October 2019 - 3 November 2019.
More information: https://southwarkparkgalleries.org/bermondsey-artists-group-re/
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Paul L; Taylor S; Modino D; Coster NJ Little Pink Bush, Drive Through Movie Gaylordsville, Conneticut, USA. 15 May 2019 - 19 May 2019.
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Dr Sarah Taylor Classification Leeds college of Art, gallery, Leeds, UK. 15 July 2013 - 26 July 2013.
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Paul L; Taylor S BAG Open 33 Cafe Gallery. Work shown: Little Pink Bush - Digital Film Cafe Gallery, Southwark Park, London. 18 November 2017 - 11 December 2017.
More information: https://cgplondon.org/33-annual-open-exhibition/
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Paul L; Taylor S Making...Making Research, Leeds College of Art, Leeds Leeds College of Art. 26 October 2017 - 6 November 2017.
More information: http://www.leeds-art.ac.uk/news-events/events-exhibitions/makingmaking-research/
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Paul L Pool Cafe Gallery, London, Uk. 8 July 2015 - 26 October 2015.
More information: http://cgplondon.org/pool/
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Paul L; Taylor S (2017) Little Pink Bush.
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Paul L (2015) Dirty Bottom.
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Paul L (2017) The Importance of personal narratives in making research. In: LARC Leeds Art Research Centre Conference, 5 July 2017, Leeds Beckett University.
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Paul L (2017) The Importance of the personal narrative in research: overview and case study: CINAGE. In: Research in Film Schools - GEECT, 15 April 2015 - 17 April 2015, La FEMIS, Paris, FRANCE.
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Paul L (2016) Embodied Methodologies: The fourth annual Practice-based Research Conference, hosted by Royal Holloway, University of London. In: Embodied Methodologies: The fourth annual Practice-based Research Conference, hosted by Royal Holloway, University of London., 4 November 2016 - 5 November 2016, Royal Holloway, University of London, Bedford SqUARE, London.
