Vincent Hewett

statement

The catalyst for the work was the death of my estranged grandfather, Wladyslaw Borzemski, and the processes both internal and external that happened afterwards. From the mundane legal and physical clearing processes to inner reflection, mourning and an artistic attempt for reconnection to this man who some feared and disliked, whilst others saw as harmless.

During this time it became apparent that he had almost completed his memoir, which he had worked on for the past thirty years. In it I found that he had excluded any life history after the 1960's. It was as if for him, life stopped in this cold war period. I took the memoir, copied and reformed it, influenced by the 'Cut and paste' method used by the writer William Burroughs and the complexity of the original written document for the novel 'On the road' by Jack Kerouac, which was a continuous, one hundred twenty-foot scroll of tracing paper sheets that he cut to size and taped together.

Qualifications and training:

2005 MA Scenography/ Performance Design and Practice, Central St. Martins College, Southampton Row, London (more info)
1993 BTEC National Diploma in General Art & Design/ one year foundation and one of developmental practice, Trowbridge Technical College, Wiltshire
Group exhibitions
2008 Pre-historic, Candid Galleries, 3 Torrens St, London.
2007 NightFair Before Christmas, Ovada, Oxford
Live/Performance
2006 'Jacobs Ladder'/ based on the work of Bruno schulz - The Street of Crocodiles, Krzysztofory Gallery, Krakow, Poland
2006 'What Burns Never Returns’, by Alessandro Carboni/OOFFOURO, St. Martins, London
2006 'Lost Family’ / Live Art Platform, Nolias gallery, London