Lewis Brown is a London-based artist whose practice investigates the translation of digital information into material and temporal form. Drawing on architectural methodologies, he employs computation as a generative language of movement and structure – producing kinetic sculpture, drawing, volumetric...
Read MoreLewis Brown is a London-based artist whose practice investigates the translation of digital information into material and temporal form. Drawing on architectural methodologies, he employs computation as a generative language of movement and structure – producing kinetic sculpture, drawing, volumetric objects, and photographic works that foreground process as performance. His projects operate as choreographies of matter, light, and time, mediated through moving heat sources, custom-built machines, drones, and additive manufacturing systems.
Brown's research-led practice explores the indeterminate space between instruction and outcome, where the precision of digital design meets the uncertainty of physical realisation – revealing unfamiliar layers of perception within the world around us. Its foundation is Drawing Machine Framework I, a kinetic instrument through which computational instruction meets physical resistance in real time, producing works of shared authorship between artist and machine (Two-Body Dissonance). Latent Memory: White in Black Square extends this logic from mechanical to thermal systems – replacing the pen with a moving heat source that endlessly traces mathematical paths across a thermochromic surface, drawing with temperature rather than ink – and is the subject of a UK patent-pending invention (GB2602399.4). In parallel, his Chromagram works – Sphere, The Platonic Solids – and the volumetric RGB XYZ investigate the geometric structure of colour perception, and the inherent symmetry between colour space (RGB) and physical space (XYZ).
A graduate of The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and recipient of the Bartlett Medal, he has previously practiced at Asif Khan Studio and Tonkin Liu. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, Saatchi Gallery, Mall Galleries, and the Royal West of England Academy. He is an exhibiting finalist for the 20th Arte Laguna Prize, with an upcoming exhibition at the Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, and has been invited to undertake an international research residency at BigCi, Australia, January 2027.
