Adam LEWIS JACOB

Profile

Born in United Kingdom in 1985. Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Graduated with a MFA in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art in 2015.
Lewis Jacob is an artist and film-maker based in Glasgow. He often collaborates with people involved in artistic and political subcultures, incorporating found footage, historical documents, and other archival resources into his work, re-contextualising them to draw connections between past and present political and social issues.
His film Idrish opened the 2021 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival and was recently screened at Drik in Bangladesh. His work has been screened at Ann Arbour Film Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and LUX, and he recently participated in Systema at Palais Carli, Marseille. He is a founding member of Céline, an artist-run space in Glasgow, and recently set up G.G.’s, a new outlet for collaborative projects.

Recent exhibitions
2025 "Idrish," Dirk, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2025 "Systema," Palais Carli, Marseille, France
2023 "The shops, The screens, The cameras, The lights and the motors, The ecstatic dancing bodies," Bagnoler, Bagnolet, France
2023 "Tense," Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
2022 "Idrish," LUX, London
2022 "Transforming Narratives," Dhaka, Bangladesh
2021 "Miraculous Noise," Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark
2020 "Crud Love," Peak, London

Awards
2024 Connections Through Culture Grant, British Council
2023 Hope Scott Trust
2022 “Special Mention” from Jury at Glasgow Short Film Festival 2022
2021 Opening film at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2021

About works / performance

Lewis Jacob’s work is about the structures that govern our lives and the countercultural figures that question them. He uses the camera to create a space where ideas and people can be brought together and unexpected relationships can occur, using improvisation, animation and sound to reinterpret research and reactivate histories.