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Lewis Oldham

ARTIST · URBAN NIGHTMARE · MAY 2026

Conjuring Ghosts

Photography

2026

Part of a larger body of work looking at the intersection of urban experience, psychological space and the industrial legacy of post-industrial Stockport.

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A Little Bit About The Artist

A Statement From The Artist

Lewis is a North West–based photographic printmaker and artist exploring the UK’s industrial heritage, personal memory and the natural processes that have shaped civilisation. His work engages with the vernacular; attending to overlooked, everyday spaces through an intuitive and emotionally responsive approach. His current projects include Ghosts of Bachelard, an exploration of interior space as a site of meditation, where presence, absence and temporality intersect. Working across frottage, analogue and digital photography, Lewis uses the physical interior as a means to probe the metaphysical. Blurring the boundary between the seen and the felt. Alongside this, The Sleeping City imagines the city as a living entity, asking: what would it dream of? Through a fictional character situated within a constructed urban landscape, the work examines the intersection of urban experience and psychological space. Both projects are ongoing, experimental and continually evolving.

Do you like scary movies? And if so which ones?

Yes! Well I am sucker for OG Hammer Horror... More recently, however, Robert Eggers work moves me.

Who or what is the biggest influence in your practice?
 

In terms of horror/ uncanny influence, It would be anything plays with the idea of haunting (haunted histories, being haunted by the past etc) and the psychology of the unknown.

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