Drawings, watercolours and sculptures of theatrical backdrops and 'insistent objects' exploring the zeigeist's triumphalist obsession with globalizing and civilising.

These quietly satirical works engage the Monumental in its relationship to the dramatic and the burlesque. The objects and images are meditations on vanity and civilisation, presenting a fugue of imaginary landscape and panoramic props, backdrops of the built environment that are in themselves simulacra, no longer extent, projected but not built, and built entertainment and overtly political architecture. The work inhabits a continuous generative stream, where motifs shift between media beyond their original conception, taking on a formal 'instistence' and a structural logic. This analogy of form and its shift in a world of information drift is fused with circumlocutory or fragmented narratives in the spirit of the Absurd.

Andrew Hewish lives in London, having completed his MFA at COFA in 2002, and has a full-time studio practice in Bethnal Green, London. In 2004 he founded the Centre for Recent Drawing, a non-profit drawing exhibition space in the London's East End.He has exhibited and is collected internationally.