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

About the Artist

c o n t e m p o r a r y v i s u a l a r t i s t

Andrew Hewish is a contemporary visual artist who lives and works in London, and exhibits and is collected internationally, working across drawing, painting and sculpture. He qualified with a BA(Hons), MIntS (U.Syd) and MFA (COFA), with research theses respectively in performance history, Chinese film, and in painting, and studied at the Prince's Drawing School, London. He founded and is the current Director of the Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD), London's non-profit museum space for the exploration and discussion of current drawing practice and thought. He is the editor of Documents for Recent Drawing, co-editor of Tracey, and lectures in drawing and general practice at Sir John Cass School of Art, Media and Design, London Metropolitan University and with the visitor programme at City and Guilds Arts School, University of Buckinghamshire and ACiD. He is currently studying in the PhD research programme with The London Consortium (AA, Birkbeck, ICA, Science Museum, Tate) in London, and writing a history of drawing.
These sculptures are part of a practice across various media, where the 'network potential' of each work to the other might operate as part of an expanded drawing sensibility. They address a parallax of the Modernist object and Post-Modern framing, as meditation and as iterative fugue on stage object, simulacra and the thingness of things. Inspiration is drawn amongst other things from architectural sites that are no longer extant or were projected but not built, and built architecture and objects that invoke a locus of desire  and projection  - entertainment  religion, history and politics. Sometimes from bricolage or found pieces shaped by economic and aesthetic factors, these works are nudged towards the implication of the autonomous work in a process of unmediated making. The work inhabits a continuous generative stream of iteration and slippage, where motifs shift between media beyond their original conception, taking on a formal insistence and a structural logic within a contingency of hermetic 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 the mute presence of things.
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Solo Exhibitions

2008 Palladio Studies, Villa Saraceno, Italy.
2008 Endless Pleasure, Horizon Home Gallery, Atlanta.
2006 The Insubstantial Pageant, Nolias Gallery, London.
2005 The Majestic World, Nolias Gallery, London.
2005 Scenes from Aladdin, SLOT Gallery, Sydney.
2004 Scenes and Monuments, Nanospace, London.
2004 Monte San Martino, 7 Bedford Row, London.
2003 Distance, IDG, Sydney.
2002 Paintings from the Hill End Residency, Lilianfels, Sydney.
2000 Detritus, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney.
1999 Littoral, Global Gallery,Sydney.
1998 Wallamumbi, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale.
1997 Wallamumbi, SoHo Gallery, Sydney.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012 ONE, Block 336, London.
2012 Collectible, ZAP, London
2012 Anschlüssel, C4RD, London.
2011 Anschlüssel, Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings, Berlin.
2011 Kettle's Yard: Found, London.
2011 Hot Lot, Central House Gallery, London.
2011 Art/Unity/Hope, City and Guilds, London.
2010 Patrick Heide, Pulse Miami, Miami.
2010 INTA, Phoenix.
2010 AlterWalden, Shankill Castle, Ireland.
2010 INTA, Boston.
2010 W.O.I., APW, New York.
2010 Handjoy, C4RD, London
2009 Contested Ground, 176 / Zabludowicz Collection, London.
2009 Subui, C4RD, London.
2009 Arts Club Annual, London.
2005 Seductive Revisions, Wallace Collection, London.
2005 Kunst-Event, Antwerp.
2005 4th Artist International Exhibition, Penne San Giovanni, Italy.
2005 The First Picture Show, Monte San Martino, Italy.
2005 The Landscape of Memory, C4RD, London.
2003 Masters, IDG, Sydney.
2003 Arts House Gallery, London.
2001-2003 Alberto Vilar Gallery, London.
2002 Second Floor Gallery, London.
2001 Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney.
2000 New Century Artists, New York.
1999 Olsen Carr, Sydney.
1998 Art Images, Adelaide.
1998 SoHo Gallery, Sydney.


Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum
New England Regional Art Museum
Newcastle Region Gallery
Bathurst Regional Art Museum
University of New South Wales
Blake Berne Collection
Macquarie Bank
Allens Arthur Robinson
Atonaskovic and Hartnell
Howrey LLP
Children's Hospital Westmead
private collections in USA, UK,
Australia, China, Thailand, Europe

connection to Andrew Hewish email

  

mail@andrewhewish.com
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