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Biography
Andrew Hewitt, together with long-term collaborator Mel Jordan, recently formed the Partisan Social Club, a provisional art group including artists, designers and researchers. Recent projects include, Talk to the Land, 2022, SIRIUS, Ireland; Social Montage, 2019, Edinburgh Printmakers; After Thompson, 2019, Coventry Biennial; On Being Together, 2018, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall.
Previously as the Freee art collective, Hewitt with Jordan and Dave Beech exhibited widely, most notably at the 13th Istanbul Biennale 2013, BAK Utrecht 2010, and the Liverpool Biennial 2010. Hewitt’s work has been commissioned by various art organisations including; Wysing Arts, UK; Milton Keynes Gallery, UK; AUB Art Gallery, Beirut, Lebannon; TANAS, Berlin, Germany; and Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst Berlin, Germany.
He has been invited to speak at a number of institutions; Doreen Massey Annual Day Event Environmental engagement and the politics of creative practice, 2019, Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for an Empathetic Society (SPACES)’, 2018, Lund University, Sweden, Beyond Art Activism: Rewriting Arts Neoliberal Value System, 2016 IMMA, Dublin.
Hewitt has received a number of Arts Council Awards most notably a large-scale award for their project entitled Futurology in 2005 (£98,000) as well as grants from other funding bodies. He has recently been awarded a Horizon RISE 2020 grant for the project Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for Empathetic Exchange; SPACEX (2022-2025), which is an interdisciplinary research project that includes, Contemporary Art, Visual Communication, Curation, Visual Culture, Economics, Cultural Sociology, Urban Studies and Architecture. It is the first pan-European study of social and participatory art, design and architecture projects in urban space with 29 partners across 10 European countries including the Van Abbemuseum and the Coventry Biennale.
Current projects include ‘How to Practice Culture-led Re-Commoning of Cities’, with Gary Hall, 2022. Hewitt is currently Co-I on an AHRC funded project (City, University of London and UON) entitled, ‘Building a Well Communities Research Consortium to address health inequalities across Integrated Care Systems’. Hewitt with Partisan Social Club and designer Michael Wright are using their ‘Mapping Kiosk’ with participants in two disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Northamptonshire to discuss the challenges facing residents, to share information on their cultural assets and to identify what is needed going forward.
Hewitt is Co-Leader for the UON Art & Design Research Centre
Supervision
Adam Ghani; Fine Art
Contemporary Art and the Liminal Space: Refuge for the Divine in an Empirical World?
Roy Wallace; Journalism and Media
From documenting subcultures to academic video essay: a critical exploration of historical and contemporary documentary debates.
Wang Ka Wang; Fine Art
An Autoethnographic Enquiry of Self-Documentary Practices Based On My Personal Family Experiences.
Richard Whitehead, Photography
The photographic archive and reprsentations of Northamptons shoe industry workers
Corrine Gretton-West, Photography
The contribution of place to exceptional human experiences through photographic art
External Roles
Project Co-ordinator, Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange (SPACEX), MSCA Horizon 2020, European Funding for Research and Innovation
Artist in the Partisan Social Club www.partisansocialclub.com
Founding Editor Art & the Public Sphere Journal www.artandthepublicsphere.co.uk
Trustee, NN Contemporary Art, https://nncontemporaryart.org
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Projects
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How to Practice Culture-led Re-Commoning of Cities, by the Partisan Social Club, adjusted by Gary Hall
Hewitt, A., Jordan, M. & Hall, G., 15 Mar 2022Research output: Non-Textual Output › Artefact
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On Trying to be Collective
Hewitt, A. & Jordan, M., 1 Feb 2021, In: Art & the Public Sphere. 9, 1 & 2, p. 63-84 22 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
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Pause. Fervour. Reflections on a pandemic: ‘We are not Alone: The Partisan Social Club New-Collective Nouns’, Poster(s)
Hewitt, A., 14 Jun 2021, Pause. Fervour. Reflections on a pandemic: Harun farocki institut & journal of visual culture . Bejac, M., Holert, T. & Smith, M. (eds.). Journal of Visual Culture, p. 178-179 2 p.Research output: Contribution to Book/Report › Chapter › peer-review
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‘We are not Alone: The Partisan Social Club New-Collective Nouns’ Posters
Hewitt, A., Jordan, M. & Smith, J., 1 Jun 2021Research output: Non-Textual Output › Artefact
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We are not alone#1 (Window Posters)
Hewitt, A., Jordan, M. & Smith, J., 16 May 2020Research output: Non-Textual Output › Artefact
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After Thompson: The Distribution of Wealth Most Conducive to Human Happiness
Hewitt, A. & Jordan, M., 4 Oct 2019Research output: Non-Textual Output › Exhibition
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Introduction to The New Text Art and Making a Difference: Introduction to The New Text Art of and Making Books a Difference by Ulises Carrión adjusted by Freee art collective
Hewitt, A., Jordan, M. & Beech, D., 15 Oct 2019, The Idea of the Avant Garde - And What It Means Today, Volume 2. Léger, M. J. (ed.). 1 ed. Bristol: Intellect, Vol. 2. p. 1-16 16 p.Research output: Contribution to Book/Report › Chapter › peer-review
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Misrecognitions in the Practice of Art and Ethnography
Hewitt, A. & Jordan, M., 1 May 2019, Arts And Ethnography in a Contemporary World: From Learning to Social Participation. Ferro, L. & Poveda, D. (eds.). Tufnell Press, p. 92-108Research output: Contribution to Book/Report › Chapter › peer-review
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Partisan Social Club: On Trying to be Collective
Andrew Hewitt (Author) & Mel Jordan (Author)
31 Jan 2021Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Invited talk › Research
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Intellect Ltd. (Publisher)
Andrew Hewitt (Editor), Mel Jordan (Editor) & Emma Mahony (Editor)
15 Jun 2021Activity: Publication Peer-review and Editorial Work › Publication Peer-review › Research
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'Making Politics'; talk for the Doreen Massey Day Event 2019
Andrew Hewitt (Speaker)
27 Jun 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Invited talk › Research
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Partisanship and Public Spheres; PUBLICS are Party People
Andrew Hewitt (Author)
15 May 2019 → 18 May 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Symposium › Research
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Working within the histories, theories and practices of the public sphere
Andrew Thomas Hewitt (Speaker) & Mel Jordan (Speaker)
26 Apr 2016Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Invited talk › Teaching
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Manifesto for Art: The Public Sphere and the work of the Freee art collective
Mel Jordan (Author), Andrew Hewitt (Author) & Dave Beech (Author)
16 Oct 2016Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Symposium › Research
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Public art against the ‘public’: Does state funded art, participatory art practices and socially-engaged art benefit the public?
Andrew Hewitt (Author)
28 Aug 2015Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Symposium › Research
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Cutting Publics Out of Communities
Andrew Hewitt (Speaker), Dave Beech (Speaker) & Mel Jordan (Speaker)
21 Sept 2015 → 23 Sept 2015Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Workshop › Teaching
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Impacts
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Developing participatory workshop skills with the Partisan Social Club
Andrew Hewitt (Principal Investigator)
Impact: Cultural impacts, Social impacts, 17: Partnerships for Goals (UN SDG), 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities (UN SDG), 04: Quality Education (UN SDG)