Mike Hewson is a visual artist with a background in structural engineering and heavy-civil construction. His award-winning projects pioneer new ways to merge conceptual art projects into the public realm.
Hewson’s playful manipulation of materials will be evident in a large suite of unique sculptures to be exhibited for the first time at Sydney Contemporary.
Titled Geopets, these small sculptures reconfigure vitrified construction bricks with crystals, rare gems and homewares to spirited effect. The art fair booth will operate like a cash and carry store, with Geopets priced by weight at $299 per kg, and packaged in a custom designed-for-life bag.
Geopet 021
2025
Corrimal coke oven brick, gemstones, objects from studio, waste & dust
130 x 230 x 85mm
3.075kg
Geopet 014
2025
Corrimal coke oven brick, gemstones, objects from studio, waste & dust
165 x 245 x 115mm
7.650kg
Geopet 006
2025
Corrimal coke oven brick, gemstones, objects from studio, waste & dust
160 x 230 x 220mm
4.290kg
Geopet 001
2025
Corrimal coke oven brick, gemstones, objects from studio, waste & dust
110 x 255 x 120mm
3.230kg
Geopet 029
2025
Corrimal coke oven brick, gemstones, objects from studio, waste & dust
125 x 150 x 120mm
2.835kg
Geopet 028
2025
Corrimal coke oven brick, gemstones, objects from studio, waste & dust
185 x 190 x 120mm
3.330kg
Geopet 010
2025
Corrimal coke oven brick, gemstones, objects from studio, waste & dust
110 x 210 x 130mm
4.025kg
Geopet 030
2025
Corrimal coke oven brick, gemstones, objects from studio, waste & dust
100 x 225 x 100mm
3.200kg
Geopet 005
2025
Corrimal coke oven brick, gemstones, objects from studio, waste & dust
225 x 180 x 180mm
4.480kg
Geopet 008
2025
Corrimal coke oven brick, gemstones, objects from studio, waste & dust
185 x 110 x 120mm
9.141kg
Geopet 002
2025
Corrimal coke oven brick, gemstones, objects from studio, waste & dust
230 x 245 x 120mm
3.815kg
Geopet 004
2025
Corrimal coke oven brick, gemstones, objects from studio, waste & dust
160 x 250 x 130mm
4.320kg
Geopet 009
2025
Corrimal coke oven brick, gemstones, objects from studio, waste & dust
110 x 220 x 100mm
2.800kg
Geopet 027
2025
Corrimal coke oven brick, gemstones, objects from studio, waste & dust
165 x 170 x 80mm
2.475kg
Hewson received a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Civil Engineering from the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand, in 2007 and a Master of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) from Columbia University, New York in 2016. He has completed five large-scale public art commissions in Australia, many of them sculpture-park-cum-playgrounds that are sensibly strange and risk-positive.
Hewson’s major exhibition The Key’s Under the Mat will transform the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Nelson Packer Tank space, and opens on 4 October 2025.
This will be Hewson’s second presentation with Michael Lett, following the exhibition Fountains at the gallery’s 3 East Street space in February 2024.
