Nigel Hewitt

Nigel Hewitt is a senior Australian visual artist whose practice spans over four decades – marked by technical mastery and conceptual depth. A graduate of the Claremont School of Art (1977), Nigel has exhibited widely across Australia in solo and group exhibitions – his work held in major public and private collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Artbank and Wesfarmers Arts. Nigel’s accolades include the Glover Prize (2015) for landscape painting.

Renowned for his meticulous use of materials, Nigel constructs layered surfaces that evoke memory, ambiguity and transformation. His compositions often explore the interrelationship between cultural and environmental conditions, drawing viewers into imagined spaces where reality dissolves and subjectivity emerges. The placement of familiar objects within these layered worlds gestures toward temporal shifts – what has been, what is and what may come.

A master of tonal subtlety and spatial complexity, Nigel’s work invites contemplation and challenges perception – offering a poetic interrogation of place, memory and transformation.