Nicole Hewitt

NICOLE HEWITT is a visual artist working in film, video, installation, performance, spoken word and text. She completed her MA in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Art and PhD in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2013 with a thesis exploring the relationship between film, narrative, dance, history and political rhetoric. Her work is concerned with memory, micro history and gendered narrative as mediated through technologies of representation and preservation. Her work has recently been shown at The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Pogon Centre for Independent Culture, Zagreb; Sonic Acts Academy, Amsterdam, The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka; Invisible Savicenta – Savicenta; international festivals such as Days of Croatian Film, Hiroshima International Festival of Animation, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Festival of New Film Split, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, International Film Festival Rotterdam, EMAF, New Media Festival Seoul, Mumbai International Film Festival, Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media, etc. Retrospectives of her film, video and animation work were parts of Holland International Animation Film Festival Utrecht (2007) and ANIMATEKA (2006), Nicole Hewitt, Museums Quartier Vienna, 2004; Nicole Hewitt, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, 2004; UrbanFestival, Zagreb, 2011; Spaport Biennial 2009/2010, Banja Luka; Women With Vision, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, 2008, Insert, Retrospective of Croatian Video Art, MSU, Zagreb, 2006; Here Tomorrow, MSU Zagreb, 2002., etc.). Since 2017 she has been part of the performance collective Soundspiels (Vida Guzmić, Nicole Hewitt, Ivan Slipčević) working on projects exploring the borders of Europe, the material history of the Atlantic Wall and ideas about landscape and its construction. The project involves periods of walking and fieldwork on the North Sea and the Baltics. Hewitt is cofounder of the artist run collective Studio Pangolin and teaches at The Department of Animation and New Media of The Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb .Lives and works in Zagreb and London.