For the past two decades, Hewitt has been interested in the mechanisms behind the construction of meaning and memory. Working serially, the artist has explored the practice of archiving and presentation, through various forms of ephemera and collage which are developed and transformed into the artist’s own tactics and language.
Leslie Hewitt initiated her latest body of work, Rough Cuts, during the lockdown of March 2020. Working with found paper sourced from a selection of vintage books on botany and American wildflowers, Hewitt creates a series of collages using a monotype printmaking process, resulting in work that is both minimalist and evocative.