Lewis Andrews/ Shadow & Light

Lewis Andrews moved to Leeds in 2016 to study a BA(Hons) in Fine Art at Leeds Arts University. After graduating in 2019, Lewis continued to work in Leeds. In 2022, Lewis completed his Postgraduate Fine Arts Degree also at Leeds Arts University, graduating with a Masters Degree in the Creative Arts. During his Master’s Degree, Lewis’s practice became deeply focused on the methodology of translating information and data from sources within science into artworks. Lewis has continued to work and build upon this method in his work, constructing a theory of working called ‘The Informative Encounter’.

 Monsters are being born within the hearts of young galaxies. Quasar jets signalling the birth and hunger of the supermassive black hole at its centre. Galactic beacons of great power. Emitting electromagnetic radiation all across the electromagnetic spectrum, these beacons populate the cosmos in their millions.

As a result of their extreme brightness, Quasars have become useful to measure distances in the night sky. Because they are so far away, an odd side effect is that they appear to be stationary to our current technologies, with measurements using very-long-baseline interferometry of most being positioned within 0.001 arc second. This process produces results far superior to the best optical measurements.