Born 1948 | |
1967-71 | University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. BA (Hons) Fine Art. |
1971-73 | St. Martin’s School of Art, London. Advanced Course in Sculpture. |
1976-82 | Part-time Lecturer in Sculpture |
1982-84 | Wilhelm Lehmbruck Scholarship, Duisburg, Germany. |
1984 | Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Pine Plains, NY, USA. |
1984-2000 | Part-time Lecturer in Sculpture |
1985 | Visiting Sculptor, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,USA. |
Hardingham Sculpture Workshop, Norfolk. | |
1991 | Picker Lectureship, Kingston Polytechnic. |
1998 | Fifth Guilin Yuzi Paradise International Sculpture Symposium, ___ _Guilin, China. |
2007/08 | Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency, Bethany, CN, USA. |
One Person Exhibitions |
1976 | Acme Gallery, London |
1990 | Smith-Jariwala Gallery, London |
1992 | Smith-Jariwala Gallery, London |
1995 | Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London |
2012 | The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth, Suffolk |
2019 | Done, Gone, Cleft; Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford |
Two Person Exhibitions |
1975 | Sculptures by Charles Hewlings, paintings by John Frazer. ______ _Aberdare Gardens, London. |
1980 | Charles Hewlings, Sculptures; Patrick Jones, Paintings. Institute of_ _Contemporary Arts, London. |
1984 | Sculpture by C. Hewlings; Paintings by D. Lendrum. The _ _ -__ _ _Showroom, London. |
1986 | Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Charles Hewlings and Gina _ _ __ _Medcalf. Stockwell Depot, London. |
2002 | Making Space. Drawings by Ron Shuebrook; Sculptures by _ __ _ _Charles Hewlings. New York Studio School Gallery, New York. |
Making Space. MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada. | |
2006 | Space Described. Charles Hewlings & Stephen Maas, Sculpture _ _in the Workplace. One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London. |
Group Exhibitions |
1972 | Platform ’73, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. |
1973 | St. Martin’s School of Art, Painting & Sculpture, Gallery Lasson, __ _London. |
1974 | Tabernacle Street Studios, London._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _______ __ _ _ |
Tabernacle Street Studios at the Playhouse Gallery, Harlow. | |
1977 | Contemporary British Sculpture. Battersea Park & Redfern Gallery, _London._______________ _______________ ________ |
Opening Exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, Yorkshire. | |
1979 | Arts Council Purchases & Awards. Serpentine Gallery, _ __ _ _ _ _ _London._______ _ |
Style in the 70’s. Touring Exhibition._ __ | |
Current British Sculpture, Norwich Festival Sculpture Exhibition. | |
Amnesty Sculpture Exhibition, London. | |
1980 | Sculpture at Hounslow, London. |
1981 | British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, _London. |
1982 | Lehmbruck-Stipendium. Schmitz und Becker Galerie, Duisburg, __ _Germany. |
1983 | Die Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Stipendiaten 1982/83. Wilhelm Lehmbruck _Museum, Duisburg, Germany. |
1984 | Attitudes ’84. Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, Yorks.___ |
Sculpture on the Map, Canterbury. | |
1985 | Sculpture at Cannizaro Park, London. |
Winter Exhibition, Sound Shore Gallery, Port Chester, NY, USA. | |
1986 | The Triangle Show. Smith’s Galleries, London. |
The Spirit of the Mass. Wells Centre, Wells-next-the Sea, Norfolk. | |
Sculpture in the City. Bath Festival, Bath. | |
Hardingham Sculpture Workshop. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art_ _University of East Anglia. | |
1987 | Sculpture at Cannizaro Park, London. |
Sculpture at Canterbury. Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury. | |
1988 | Sculpture at Cannizaro Park, London. |
Sculpture at Canterbury ’88. Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury. | |
Fuse 1. Fuse Gallery, London. | |
1989 | Steel Sculpture. Ardingly Sculpture Project, Sussex. |
1990 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London. |
Sculpture at Cannizaro Park, London. | |
Art ’90. London Contemporary Art Fair. | |
1991 | Opening Exhibition. The Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel_ __ _Sculpture, Telford. |
Art ’91. Olympia International Art Fair, London. | |
First Choice. Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam. | |
1992 | Millfield British 20th Century Sculpture Exhibition. Millfield School,_ _Somerset. |
The Discerning Eye. Mall Galleries, London. | |
1993 | Galerie Dagmar, London. |
1994 | Bronze Works. The Burlington New Gallery, London. |
The Summer Show. Smith-Jariwala Gallery, London. | |
1995 | Sculpture from Hardingham. Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich. |
British Abstract Art, Part 2: Sculpture. Flowers East Gallery, _ __ _ _London. | |
1997 | Ten Years After. Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London. |
Influx. APT Gallery, London. | |
Outdoor Sculpture Programme, Surrey Institute of Art & Design. | |
1998 | Yuzi Paradise Sculpture Park, Guilin, China. |
2006 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London. |
2007 | Rummage, Sculptors’ Drawings. The Winchester Gallery, __ _ _ _ _Winchester. |
2010 | Decameron, New York Studio School Gallery, New York. |
Construction and its Shadow. Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds. | |
2014 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London. Shortlisted for the _Charles Wollaston Award. |
2015 | Construction Industry: Contemporary Assemblage, Construction and Relief, A.P.T. Gallery, London |
2017 | Passionate Process, APT Gallery, London - catalogue Concrete + Clay, Beacon Bureau at Roaming Room, London |
2019 | The Size of Thoughts, White Conduit Projects, London No Particular Place to Go? 35 years of sculpture at __ _ _ _ _Castlefield Gallery, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester. |
Collections |
Arts Council of England | |
London Borough of Hounslow | |
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg | |
St. Matthew’s Church, Brixton, London | |
Yuzi Paradise Sculpture Park, Guilin, China | |
Private collections in Great Britain, Germany and USA. |
Commissions |
2004 | George Hofmann, Albany, NY, USA. |
Awards |
1979 | Arts Council Major Award |
1982 | Wilhelm Lehmbruck Scholarship, Duisburg, Germany |
1986 | Visiting Artists Award, School of the Museum of Fine Art,__ _ _ __ _Boston, USA |
2001 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
Publications |
Ben Jones, ‘A New Wave in Sculpture’, Artscribe, September 1977. | |
Bryan Robertson, ‘New Faces’, Harpers & Queen, January 1976. | |
John McEwen, ‘Aspects of British Sculpture’, Artforum, April 1978. | |
Brendan Prendeville, ‘Charles Hewlings, Sculptures; Patrick Jones, Paintings’, _Exhibition catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, May 1980. | |
‘British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century’, Exhibition catalogue, pp 217-219, _ _Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1981. | |
Helga Jorgens, ‘Die Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Stipendiaten 1982/83’, Exhibition _catalogue, Whilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, Germany, Nov. 1983. | |
‘Bronze Works’, Exhibition catalogue, publ. Wimbledon School of Art, 1994. | |
Sacha Craddock, Exhibition catalogue, Kapil Jariwala Gallery, 1995. | |
David Cohen, ‘Charles Hewlings’, Galleries, July 1995. | |
David Cohen, ‘London Reviews’, Sculpture, Sept-Oct 1995. | |
Michael Glover, ‘London Review’, ARTnews, November 1995, | |
John Cornall, ‘Influx’, Exhibition catalogue, APT Gallery, London, 1997. | |
‘Guilin Yuzi Paradise International Sculpture Symposium, No. 3’, Exhibition ___ _catalogue, 1999. | |
Piri Halasz, ‘Modernist Sculpture: Into the Light’, NY Arts Magazine, Vol.7 no 5, _2002. | |
Karen Wilkin, At the Galleries, Partisan Review, No 3, 2002. | |
‘Shaping Sculpture’ UAL publication to accompany International Sculpture _ _ _Centre Conference, April 2010, p.12. | |
Ann Elliott, Sculpture at Canary Wharf: A Decade of Exhibitions, pp 110-111,
_116, 128-129, Canary Wharf Group, 2011. |
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Brendan Prendeville, 'The Angel's Ear and She Is Love: New Sculpture
_by Charles Hewlings', Exhibition catalogue, The Cut Art Centre, Halesworth, _Suffolk, March 2012. |
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POOL, a studio conversation. Pamphlet, 2012 | |
Charles Hewlings, 'Supposals' AMBIT, Issue 220, Spring 2015 | |
Charles Hewlings, ‘Done, Gone, Cleft', pamphlet to accompany exhibition, _Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, October 2019. |