Twenty-three-year-old Vision Lewis was awarded the 2022 Creative Minds Award. This recognises a City West Housing resident who has made artistic contributions to their community or inspired others with their creativity. It’s one of four categories awarded annually in the City West Housing Community Impact Awards.
Vision has always been passionate about art and found comfort in sketching portraits during tough times when she was a child. Whenever she felt isolated due to challenging situations at home, sketching became a way to tune in to herself and connect with the people she drew. This passion for art grew to become a calming presence in her life.
Over the years Vision has used her talents to create portraits for people to make them happy, usually of people they love or of those they have lost, and to advocate for causes that are important to her.
Currently, Vision is studying law full time at the University of NSW and one day she hopes to work with vulnerable communities in Australia. She also works four days a week at a law firm. This leaves her little spare time, but she continues to sketch or paint whenever she can.
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Above: ‘Synergy’ is a series of portraits of five prominent people who have made an impact on the civil rights movement and created a better world for Vision’s African American and South African family. These five activists have been portrayed using five different art processes to express that individuals can change the world.
