Those of you who follow my newsletter know that we try to go to an exhibition a week. Last week, we managed to go to three (!). Sunday was the Immigration Museum with a fabulous Joy exhibition and Friday was Yayoi Kusama at the NGV. I’ll write about those in next week’s newsletter. Today, I pull out Wednesday’s wonderful experinece into my blog so that you can read about our friend Jon.
Jon is the reason we live in Australia. Jon and our Jeff met in Oxford with Jeff doing music and Jon doing art. Jon came to Aus first, followed by Jeff and the rest, they say, is history. Jon’s wife is the amazing Britt Salt who I’ve written about in my newsletter before. Jon is a wise artist in his own right and has been able to actively pursue his art now that his work life has changed. The exhibition narrarive reads, “Jon Hewitt, born in the UK is a painter living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. He has a BA(Hons) in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes, however only began painting in 2021 following a serious illness. Hewitt practices his art in “Crip-time”, as he lives with post-viral chronic fatigue. Crip-time is to experience a non-normative relationship to linear, chronological time, development, and progress. It means creating alternative ways of navigating an ableist world.”
Wednesday was the opening of Jon’s exhibition as a joint show and it was fabulous. Read here to see more details. https://solgallery.com.au/events/jon-hewit. Jon has given me permission to put my own photos here.
