Clare Hewitt - Acorn Germination (2021)
This image depicts the process of acorn germination. Acorns carry centuries of environmental memory, guiding the oak tree's adaptation to climate variations.
In Everything in the forest is the forest, Clare Hewitt has spent five years with a community of twelve 180-year-old oak trees at The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR FACE) learning how they thrive through connection, reciprocity and care, to inspire similar behaviour amongst human beings.
Clare Hewitt is a photographic artist based in Birmingham, UK. After completing a degree in Law at Oxford Brooks University, she went on to study Commercial Photography at Arts University Bournemouth. Her most recent work, Everything in the forest is the forest, is currently being presented as an Impressions Gallery solo touring exhibition throughout the UK. The exhibition includes a biodegradable photobook, produced with support from Arts Council England and Impressions Gallery. In 2019, Hewitt was the recipient of the GRAIN Bursary Award. Her work has also been exhibited at Peckham 24, Landskrona Foto Festival, the National Portrait Gallery, Open Eye Gallery, and the Royal Photographic Society, amongst other spaces. Her clients include New Yorker, Guardian, Photoworks, Oxfam, New Statesman, and The Wire. Hewitt also works as an Archivist for artist Vanley Burke, and a Senior Lecturer in Photography at University of the West of England, Bristol.
This image depicts the process of acorn germination. Acorns carry centuries of environmental memory, guiding the oak tree's adaptation to climate variations.
In Everything in the forest is the forest, Clare Hewitt has spent five years with a community of twelve 180-year-old oak trees at The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR FACE) learning how they thrive through connection, reciprocity and care, to inspire similar behaviour amongst human beings.
Clare Hewitt is a photographic artist based in Birmingham, UK. After completing a degree in Law at Oxford Brooks University, she went on to study Commercial Photography at Arts University Bournemouth. Her most recent work, Everything in the forest is the forest, is currently being presented as an Impressions Gallery solo touring exhibition throughout the UK. The exhibition includes a biodegradable photobook, produced with support from Arts Council England and Impressions Gallery. In 2019, Hewitt was the recipient of the GRAIN Bursary Award. Her work has also been exhibited at Peckham 24, Landskrona Foto Festival, the National Portrait Gallery, Open Eye Gallery, and the Royal Photographic Society, amongst other spaces. Her clients include New Yorker, Guardian, Photoworks, Oxfam, New Statesman, and The Wire. Hewitt also works as an Archivist for artist Vanley Burke, and a Senior Lecturer in Photography at University of the West of England, Bristol.