Andrew Hazewinkel

I am a visual artist and academic based in Athens working in expanded fields of lens-based and sculptural practices at the intersection of ancient material culture and contemporary art. My artistic practice manifests as a meld of experimental studio-based practices, museum collections engagements, photo-archive based activities and traditional modes of research scholarship through which I explore the contemporary social legacies of ancient objects, stories, and archetypes by creating and configuring objects, images, environments, and texts as strategies for investigating the ways in which remote pasts remain active in us all.

Considering parallels, between ancient and contemporary contexts, of motivating religious, social and political impulses for iconoclastic activities enacted upon representations of the human body, my artworks tease out experientially sensed tensions resident between broken, eroded, or defaced figurative sculpture and our own soft ephemeral bodies.
More broadly I am interested in the changing meanings and socio-spiritual value of materials and objects, the partiality of narratives sustained around them by some museums, the complex urgent contemporary debates concerning the decolonisation of museum collections, practices of looted object restitution and the role of museums in the 21st century.

In 2014 I was the inaugural Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Artist in Residence. In 2015 - 2023 I seeded, developed, implemented, and managed the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Contemporary Creative Program. In 2019 – 2024, I was Honorary Research Fellow at the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens. I have engaged creatively with collections at the National Archaeological Museum Athens (GR), the Acropolis Museum Athens (GR), the National Archaeological Museum Reggio Calabria (IT), the British School at Rome Photographic Archive (IT), the Frick Collection (US), the, the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York (US). My artworks have been presented in solo and group presentations at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria (AU), Art Gallery of New South Wales (AU), Centre for Contemporary Photography (AU), British School at Rome (IT) Villa Empain Boghossian Foundation (BE), MGLC Museum of Graphic Art (SI)

I completed my practice-led PhD at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney and my MFA from Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Melbourne.