SPACE 1: JON HEWITT

Exhibition dates. 18 March - 30 March 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 19 March 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm

SKYSCAPES

Jon Hewitt, born in the UK is a painter living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. He has a BA(Hons) in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes, however only began painting in 2021 following a serious illness. Hewitt practices his art in “Crip-time”, as he lives with post-viral chronic fatigue. Crip-time is to experience a non-normative relationship to linear, chronological time, development, and progress. It means creating alternative ways of navigating an ableist world.

Hewitt’s paintings are a personal tribute to his local area - a celebration of moments spent in the mundane places he passes everyday. He honours these ordinary places by framing them as significant, unique and beautiful.

For Skyscapes, Hewitt has shifted the gaze of traditional post-settler Australian landscape painting, removing the land and forcing the viewpoint skyward. Skyscapes is a new Australian landscape, at once recognizable and reflective of Australia today, whilst simultaneously disorientating and alienating.