Notes

"Having spent more than a decade using the animal form as a metaphor for wilderness, Lewis began to find this vehicle of expression somewhat limiting. He now wished to explore the idea of wilderness at a more personal and philosophical level, and searched for a fresh signifier that could carry new conceptual meanings.

Lewis’s human figures represent an interface between animal and human rather than simple humankind, and continue to speak of wilderness. They are an attempt to explore visually the integration of all that is wild and free and to reconcile the ideas of inner and outer wilderness, as well as being vehicles through which to probe the fundamental importance of wilderness to the human psyche."¹

^1. Laura Twiggs (2006) Forces of Nature: The Sculpture of Dylan Lewis, Cape Town: Pardus Publishing, unpaginated.

Exhibited

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, Untamed: Exploring the Lost Balance Between Humankind and Nature, 2010, an example from the edition exhibited.

Literature

Ian McCallum (2015) Dylan Lewis: An Untamed Force, Cape Town: Struik Nature, another edition illustrated in colour on pages 34 and 54.

Christie's (2013) Untamed: Sculpture from the Untamed Series by Dylan Lewis, another cast from the edition illustrated in colour on pages 8, 31 and 44.