A forthcoming publication will survey Lewis Brander’s work from 2018 to 2026. Published by the gallery, the book includes a newly commissioned text by Rye Dag Holmboe, offering a sustained critical reflection on the evolution of Brander’s practice over this period. Holmboe’s essay engages closely with key works made in Athens between 2018 and 2020, situating them within a broader consideration of time, place, material, and elements of the artist’s biography that inform the work. Bringing together paintings from multiple bodies of work, the publication marks an important moment of consolidation and reflection within Brander’s practice.

Rye Dag Holmboe (PhD) is a psychoanalyst, art historian, and curator. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia, where he was a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow. Before that, he was an AHRC Doctoral Scholar in the History of Art Department at University College London. A member of the British Psychoanalytic Association and International Psychoanalytic Association, Rye works in private practice and at the Camden Psychotherapy Unit, a mental health charity in London. Rye’s latest book, Sol LeWitt’s Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre, was published by MIT Press in 2023. He has been the editor of four others, and is published widely in academic journals such as The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Free Associations, Art History, and Critical Quarterly, as well as literary and art magazines such as The White Review, The London Review of Books, Frieze, and Apollo. A biography of Howard Hodgkin is forthcoming with Yale University Press. Everyday Beauty, a non-fiction book on finding beauty in the everyday, is forthcoming with Fern Press in 2027.