Jordy Hewitt

Jordy Hewitt is an Australian painter whose work navigates contending life and bodily forces, identity, and the subtle intersections of interior and exterior emotional realms. She grew up near the ocean in Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia, and now works in Walyalup/Fremantle. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Art and Design at Curtin University in 2014, Hewitt has exhibited continuously both locally and nationally in solo and group exhibitions and prizes including The Hutchins Art Prize, Whyalla Art Prize, The Agendo Art Prize, The Mandorla Art Award and The Bayside Painting Prize. Two of Hewitt’s works reside in the Art Gallery of Western Australia’s permanent State Collection.

“I’ve always been interested in life meaning, symbolism and energy. I want to cut to the core of things and find an essence. My paintings can present some of that distillation I’m seeking. Everything I observe and experience is processed and regurgitated in the works and shows me something about where I’m at and documents things for me. I don’t see myself clearly and I feel untethered a lot of the time. My Second Ten series is about entering my second decade of being a painter. It is both a mysterious and mundane pursuit, important and frustrating, searching for potency, beauty or honesty.”