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

Hewish's work encompasses painting (oil, watercolour, ink), drawing and sculpture, (wood, plaster, silicon) inspired by a tradition of theatrical setting and post-minimal 'insistent' objects. The work engages the monumental in parallax with the theatrical, the Modernist with the Post-Modern, 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 form determined by economic and other structural factors which, transformed in the studio, might be nudged towards an autonomous work. 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 metamorphosis in a world of information drift , or significance, is fused with circumlocutory or fragmented narratives in the spirit of the Existential and the Absurd  and evoke the unreliability, instability or unknowability of narrative and experience.