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

Encompassing painting (oil, watercolour, ink), drawing and sculpture, (wood, plaster, silicon), Hewish's work addresses the monumental in parallax with the theatrical, the Modernist object and Post-Modern framing, where objects and images are often meditations or fugues on settings and stage objects. Inspiration is drawn amongst other things from parts of the built environment that are in themselves simulacra, no longer extant, projected but not built, and built architecture (particularly that within a locus of desire  and projection  - entertainment  religion, history and politics), and from found forms shaped by economic and aesthetic factors which, transformed in the studio, might be nudged towards an autonomous work in a stage in the process of unmediated making. 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 within a contingency of experience. This analogy of form and its metamorphosis in a world of information drift and significance, is fused with circumlocutory or fragmented narratives in the spirit of the Existential and the Absurd. They seek to evoke the unreliability, instability or unknowability of narrative and experience, and to cast a disegno appropriate to our period.