Nicole Hewitt (London, 1965) graduated from Brighton Polytechnic Art College with a degree in Expressive Arts multimedia studies. She specialised in the technique of puppet animation at Jiri Trnka's studio of puppet films in Prague. Since 1989 she has made 11 films in different techniques (“stop frame”, 2D, model animation, cutouts etc.)… After taking her MA degree in Fine Art Media, Slade School of Art in London, she is finishing her PhD thesis at the same school. She cooperates with various groups in multimedia projects, including the project Editing, which was presented at the 51st Venice Biennale. In the last year she has organized the third international conference and exhibition TIP 3, Theory in Practice 3, in Dubrovnik, and the international interdisciplinary project Protokol 1-7 in Zagreb. She is lecturer in animation and new media practices at the Academy of Fine Art in Zagreb.
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