Following on from Shapeshifting: From Animal to Human at the Rupert Museum in Stellenbosch, in the summer of 2009 Lewis held a solo exhibition at Christie’s South Kensington, where a continuance of Shapeshifting: From Animal to Human introduced his new exploration of the male figure. In addition to this exhibition, Lewis had great success with a solo auction titled Predators and Prey at Christie’s London in 2007, in which a selection of the last editions of his animal bronzes went under the hammer.
Through this exhibition’s carefully selected series of non-chronological works and installations, it became possible to trace the threads underlying Lewis’s progression from wilderness, to animal, to fragmented animal forms, to the human/animal interface embodied in his latest figure work.
Lewis’s new male figures were first shown on an international platform at Christie’s South Kensington with this exhibition.