MEG HEWITT Wall
MEG HEWITT Table
The work on view at Sydney Contemporary is the series Tokyo is Yours which was made between 2015-2017 Meg is inspired by film noir, psychology, archetypes, printmaking and Manga. The series explores the mood in Japan after the 2011 Earthquake and nuclear disaster.
Meg Hewitt was born in 1973 in Sydney, Australia and formally studied sculpture, painting and temporal media. She has been selected as a finalist in the Moran Prize for Contemporary Photography, the Head On Prize, the Lensculture Street Photography Awards and the Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women as well as being awarded a gold medal from the Tokyo International Foto Competition 2018 and a silver medal from the Prix de la Photographie, Paris, 2016. In 2017 she was named fringe artist of the year at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale and highly commended in the Australian Photobook of the Year awards for her monograph ‘Tokyo is Yours’.
Meg is a member of the Australian photo collective Oculi and international street photography collective UP
In 2019 Meg exhibited during Les Rencontres de La Photographie, Arles at Anne Clergue Gallery in France her work is in numerous international collections including that of Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg and The Victoria and Albert Museum.