a n d r e w h e w i s h

Hewish's work largely encompasses painting (oil,watercolour, ink), drawing and sculptures, inpired by a tradition of theatrical setting and 'insistent objects' in the creative setting and in the everyday. These work engages the monumental in its relationship to the dramatic and the burlesque, where objects and images are often meditations or fugues of imaginary landscape and stage objects. Inspiration is drawn from pieces of the built environment that are in themselves simulacra, no longer extant, projected but not built, and built architecture (particularly from the spheres of entertainment and politics), and from form determined by economic and other factors which transformed in the studio might be nudged toward an invocation of the same. The work inhabits a continuous generative stream, where motifs shift between media beyond their original conception, taking on a formal 'insistence' and a structural logic. This analogy of form and its shift in a world of information drift is fused with circumlocutory or fragmented narratives in the spirit of the Absurd.