Dale Lewis in conversation with Eliza Gluckman
Wednesday 1 July 2026 at 7pm | Join us for a conversation between London-based artist Dale Lewis and Eliza Gluckman, Director of the UK Government Art Collection, in celebration of Lost Illusions – Lewis' first UK solo exhibition in five years.
About Dale Lewis
Dale Lewis (b. 1980) completed a BA in Fine Art at London Guildhall in 2002, an MFA at Brighton in 2006 and graduated from the Turps Studio Programme in 2015. Recent solo exhibitions include Lost Illusions, Edel Assanti, London, UK (2026); Nights and Weekends, KDR305, Miami, FL, USA (2025); The Great Day, Art Matters, Hangzhou, China (2024); Sweet and Sour, Choi&Choi Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2023); No Place Like Home, Block 336, London, UK (2021); and The Great Day, Edel Assanti, London, UK (2020). Recent group exhibitions include John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2025); Happy & Glorious: Coronation Commissions from the Government Art Collection, The National Archives, London, UK (2025); The Day I Saw You, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Querétaro MACQ, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico (2023) and Friends and Friends of Friends, Schlossmuseum, Linz, Austria (2020). Lewis was the recipient of the 2016 Jerwood Painting Fellowship. His work is in international collections including The Arsenal, Montreal, Canada; By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China; David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK; Fundacion AMMA, Mexico; Government Art Collection, London, UK; Hort Foundation, New York, USA and Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK. Dale Lewis lives and works in London.
About Eliza Gluckman
Eliza Gluckman is Director of the UK Government Art Collection, overseeing a new direction in public engagement through collaborations and initiating inclusive collecting through Art X-UK. She conceived the Representation of the People Project, a ten-year commitment to assessing and addressing representation in the Collection. Previously she was Curator of the The Women's Art Collection (then New Hall Art Collection), University of Cambridge and a co-founder of A Woman’s Place Project (AWP), promoting cultural projects and advocacy where equality provides the contextual backbone.
Over the past 25 years she has worked in diverse arts environments including SPACE Studios, the RSA, Parasol Unit, Asia House, Victoria & Albert Museum and National Trust and programmed a central London gallery as part of an independent curatorial partnership, Day+Gluckman, for over a decade. She was a trustee for Block 336, an artist-run space in Brixton, South London for eight years, and the curatorial steering group for Intoart, a studio that works inclusively with adults with learning difficulties. She currently sits on the Advisory Board for Exhibitions and Acquisitions of Pallant House Gallery and is a Fellow of Westminster Abbey Institute.
