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 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 a contemporary visual artist who lives and works in London, and exhibits and is collected internationally. He qualified with a BA(Hons), MIntS and MFA (COFA), with research theses respectively in performance history, Chinese film, and the sublime in painting. He is the editor of Documents for Recent Drawing and a co-editor of Tracey, and lectures in Drawing at Sir John Cass School of Art and Design, Metropolitan University, London.

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.


 


included in
Contested Ground at
176 / Zabludowicz Collection, London:

Cthonic Harmonic 2009
Balsa Wood, Paint 
Inspired by architectural folly, observations of Venice's encrusted architectural aspect and that city's historical fascination with capriccio form, this piece is part of an ongoing enquiry into the nature of sculpture as stage objects; a koan of the stability of form's generation and flux.


False Tori 2008
cardboard, plaster, glue, reeds
from exhibition SHIBUI, 2008.
In Praise of Folly, 2009
tea, pencil on rag paper
Arts Club Annual, 2009


Art Papers review: Andrew Hewish
Review in Art Papers
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

2010 INTA, Boston, USA.
2010 W.O.I., APW, NY, USA.
2009
Contested Ground, 176 / Zabludowicz Collection, 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
New England Regional Art Museum
Newcastle Region Gallery
Bathurst Regional Art Museum
University of New South Wales 
Macquarie Bank
Allens Arthur Robinson
Atonaskovic and Hartnell
Howrey LLP
Children's Hospital Westmead
private collections in Australia, 
China, USA, UK and continental Europe



connection to Andrew Hewish email

  

mail@andrewhewish.com


All images are copyright of the artist