Andrew Hazewinkel is a highly respected, critically regarded, contemporary Australian artist living and working in Athens. He blends an expanded field of lens-based practices, object-based sculptural processes and spatially sensitive installation activities with museum collection investigations and photographic archive engagements manifesting a research-rich artistic practice characterised by the compelling deployment of diverse methodologies and materialities.
Combining a highly refined aesthetic with a visual language of rupture, Hazewinkel creates and configures objects and images as a means of considering how the remote past is alive and active in all of us. In doing so he returns again and again to the human figure. He has a longstanding interest in and profound knowledge of the developmental trajectories of figurative sculpture, into which he frequently intervenes. He is interested in the convergence of the individual body and collective bodies, and how ancient material culture, contemporary digital technologies and institutional systems and structures now influence the very human act of remembering.
Hazewinkel holds a PhD from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney titled Stone Authority Violence, Relating Bodies, Materials, Remembering, supervised by Professor Ross Gibson. He holds an MFA from Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. His work has been presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), the Centre for Contemporary Photography Melbourne (CCP), Villa Empain Boghossian Foundation Brussels, the British School at Rome and MGLC International Centre for Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Hazewinkel has been the recipient of several prizes and residencies, including the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, the Australian National Works on Paper Acquisitive Award, the National Gallery of Victoria Postgraduate Prize and Creative Australia (formerly the Australia Council for the Arts) residencies in Rome and New York. Museum collection engagements include, the National Archaeological Museum Athens (GR), the Acropolis Museum Athens (GR), Museo Archaeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria (IT), The British School at Rome Photographic Archive (IT), the Royal Collection Windsor (UK), Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology Oxford (UK), the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York (USA) and the Frick Collection (USA). Hazewinkel’s works are represented widely in public, private and corporate collections throughout Australia and internationally.