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
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1996-9
| BA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
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Grants
2018
| A Closer Look, artists talk, Tate St Ives
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2017-8
| London Creative Network, in conjunction with SPACE and funded by European Union
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2015-6
| Artist Educator, Tate, Schools and Teachers Programme
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2014
| 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Kurt Beers, Thames and Hudson
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2006-4
| Glasgow City Council Visual Artists Grant
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2003
| Unidee Residency, Cittadelarte, Biella, Italy
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Collections
Private collection, Henri Swagemakers, Netherlands
Hiscox, London
Barts Hospital Trust, London
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2012
| Sitting on Ruins, Schwartz Gallery Project Space, Hackney Wick, London
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2008
| As for reality we like it exotic, Contemporary Art Projects, London
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2006
| Amongst gnarled roots, Glasgow Project Room
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Group Exhibitions
2019
| Joy before the object, Seventeen, London
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2018
| London Creative Network, SPACE, London
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2016
| Market Art Fair with Winston Wachter Gallery, New York
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2015
| Mornington Cresent, 134, Middleton Road, London
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| Fundraiser, Milton Keynes Arts Centre
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2014
| 100 Painters of Tomorrow, One art space, New York
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| Fugue, Barbican Trust Project Space, London
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2013
| Creekside Open, (selected by Ceri Hand), A.P.T. London
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| Make me a door right here!, 134 Middleton Rd, London
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2012
| Hello and goodbye, Acava Studios, 17-25 Cremer St, London
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| Beep Painting Prize, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
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2010
| The Fall of Man, performance evening, Stoke Newington Library, London
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2009
| Affluenza, 44 - 48 St John’s St, London
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| The Fall of Man, performance evening, Clapton, London
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2008
| Wonder Island, Schwartz Gallery, London
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2006
| How to do white, Project Space, Tramway, Glasgow
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2005
| Members Show, Studio Voltaire, selected by Catherine Wood and Enrico David
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2004
| Short Stories about Glamour, Hiscox Art Projects, London
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| Inbox:Glasgow, NCA Mexico City
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| Weeds, Hiscox Art Projects, London
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2003
| Cittadelarte &, M HKA, Antwerp
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| Degree show, Tramway, Glasgow
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| The last summer I spent on earth, Glasgow Project Room
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