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Hannah Hewetson


Background Information about Hannah Hewetson

Introduction

In her pieces, London-based artist Hannah Hewetson makes the abstract sensible in an almost three-dimensional way: Her abstract figures in which mystery and precision harmonize absorb its viewers and create unpredictable effects as they collide.
An invitation to the state of confusion, a state of mind the artist herself embraced during the creative process, in order to emerge from the chaos with an entirely new sense of clarity. Artist and viewer can share the overwhelming feeling of being completely taken in by the piece of art, of forgetting oneself and thus going beyond the familiar. A process of deconstruction, reconstruction and hence construction per se. The inner process of artist and viewer add an unexpected, new element. A bold detour that leads the daring onto new paths. Hannah Hewetson's art cherishes fluctuation and ambiguity. The finished work, classified between Kandinsky’s abstract art and the graffiti art of Jacopo Ceccarelli alias 2501, is a call for expansion and development. Not created to provide answers but to raise questions, not to image something but to make us imagine more, not to inform but to inspire

Bio

2001-3 
MFA, Glasgow School of Art
1996-9 
BA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art

Grants

2018    
A Closer Look, artists talk, Tate St Ives
2017-8
London Creative Network, in conjunction with SPACE and funded by European Union
2015-6
Artist Educator, Tate, Schools and Teachers Programme
2014
100 Painters of Tomorrow, Kurt Beers, Thames and Hudson
2006-4
Glasgow City Council Visual Artists Grant
2003
Unidee Residency, Cittadelarte, Biella, Italy

Collections

Private collection, Henri Swagemakers, Netherlands
Hiscox, London
Barts Hospital Trust, London

Exhibitions

2012
Sitting on Ruins, Schwartz Gallery Project Space, Hackney Wick, London
2008
As for reality we like it exotic, Contemporary Art Projects, London
2006
Amongst gnarled roots, Glasgow Project Room
2019
Joy before the object, Seventeen, London
2018
London Creative Network, SPACE, London
2016
Market Art Fair with Winston Wachter Gallery, New York
2015
Mornington Cresent, 134, Middleton Road, London

Fundraiser, Milton Keynes Arts Centre
2014
100 Painters of Tomorrow, One art space, New York

Fugue, Barbican Trust Project Space, London
2013
Creekside Open, (selected by Ceri Hand), A.P.T. London

Make me a door right here!, 134 Middleton Rd, London
2012
Hello and goodbye, Acava Studios, 17-25 Cremer St, London

Beep Painting Prize, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2010
The Fall of Man, performance evening, Stoke Newington Library, London
2009
Affluenza, 44 - 48 St John’s St, London

The Fall of Man, performance evening, Clapton, London
2008
Wonder Island, Schwartz Gallery, London
2006
How to do white, Project Space, Tramway, Glasgow
2005
Members Show, Studio Voltaire, selected by Catherine Wood and Enrico David
2004
Short Stories about Glamour, Hiscox Art Projects, London

Inbox:Glasgow, NCA Mexico City

Weeds, Hiscox Art Projects, London
2003
Cittadelarte &, M HKA, Antwerp

Degree show, Tramway, Glasgow

The last summer I spent on earth, Glasgow Project Room