Andrew Hewish
Andrew Hewish is a contemporary artist and curator in London, who works in a variety of media. He is also the Coordinator of Critical Contextual Studies in Art and Photography at the School of Art, Architecture and Design at The Cass. He holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art (RCA) under the supervision of Barry Curtis and Ian Kiaer. In 2020, he was awarded BEM for educational services in the arts. In 2004 he founded the Centre for Recent Drawing, a social practice and a UK charity which has curated over 100 exhibitions in drawing and where he remains as Executive Director. He sits on the board of Poetry School, a UK charity, and has previosuly curated the public engagement in research and exhibtion programme at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and has been Visiting Academic at the University of Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art.
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Despite being one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States, Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the few with no Amtrak train transit. While you cannot get in or out of the city by train, it does have a humble light rail system, built in the face of public… Read more »

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On the island of Malakula, part of the nation of Vanuatu, when the time is deemed right by their elders, the youth of the community partake in a coming-of-age ceremony to become manples: literally “men-place.” Anthropologist Jacopo Baron reflects on his personal involvement in these rituals and on the profound… Read more »