Ponch Hawkes

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Ponch Hawkes (born 1946) is an Australian photographic artist, whose works have been featured in the Australian National Gallery and have hung in the National Gallery of Victoria and the State Library Victoria[1] and written about in the Sydney Morning Herald.[2] Hawkes is considered an influential part of the Australian Feminist art Movement, which was centred predominately in Melbourne during the mid 1970s. Hawkes' work is broad in its scope, including artists, feminists, sportspeople, public figures and candid street-photographs. She is especially noted for her 1976 photo essay Our Mums and Us, which featured her coterie of female friends and their mothers, among them the writer Helen Garner, in a typological style.

Early life and education[]

Hawkes was born in Abbotsford, Victoria, in 1946 and educated at University High School. She is self-taught, having never formally studied photography.[3] Upon returning to Australia from the United States in the early 1970s, Hawkes, who was working as a journalist for the magazine The Digger took up photography to enhance her journalistic work.

Exhibitions[]

Selected solo exhibitions[]

  • Our Mums and Us and These Women have Just Run 26 Miles, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia, 2013
  • Eros, Philos and Agape, Melbourne Cricket Ground, 2012
  • Basil Sellers Creative Arts Fellow, National Sports Museum, MCG, 2011–12
  • More seeing is NOT Understanding, Monash Gallery of Art, Brisbane Powerhouse, Portland, Redlands Qld, Albury, 2009
  • Seeing Is Not Understanding, Horsham, Regional Gallery, 2009
  • Trading Places, Heritage Hill Museum, Dandenong and Immigration Museum, Melbourne, 2006
  • Risk, Monash Gallery of Art, 2005
  • Sensation, Chrysalis Gallery, East Melbourne, 2005
  • They're downstairs, North Melbourne Arts House, 2003
  • Todah, Jewish Museum, St Kilda, Melbourne, 2001
  • St Vincent’s at Home, Aikenhead Gallery, Melbourne 1999
  • Relatively Speaking, The Family in Words and Pictures, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney, and Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 1998
  • Photoworks, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne, 1997
  • Circus Oz, Performing Arts Museum Collection, Westpac Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, 1997
  • Best Mates, William Mora Gallery, Melbourne, 1990
  • Generations, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1989
  • Circus Oz in Performance, La Trobe University Gallery and Watters Gallery, Sydney, 1981
  • Our Mums and Us, Brummels Gallery, Melbourne 1976

Selected group exhibition[]

  • Photography Meets Feminism: Australian women photographers 1970s–80s, A Monash Gallery of Art travelling exhibition, 2014–2015
  • Beyond Borders, MAP Group, Ballarat International Photo Biennale, 2015
  • Melbourne Now National Gallery of Victoria, 2013–2014[3]
  • KHEM, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne, Curated by Linsey Gosper, April 11 – May 3, 2014[4]
  • Take A Bow Ballarat Mechanics Institute, 2013
  • Mining The Collection, Albury City Gallery, 2011
  • Brummels, Monash Gallery of Art, 2011
  • Mapping Ballarat, Ballarat Foto Biennale, 2011
  • Basil Sellers Art prize,(finalist) Ian Potter Museum of Art, 2011
  • Timelines, National Gallery of Victoria, 2011
  • Mapping Ballarat, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, 2009
  • Beyond Reasonable Drought, Old Parliament House, Canberra and touring, 2007
  • Raised by Wolves, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2006
  • Julie Millowick Aquisitive Prize, Castlemaine Festival (winner), 2006
  • Murray Cod: The Biggest Fish in the River, Swan Hill Gallery and 5 other venues, 2006
  • Blake prize for Religious Art (finalist), 2006
  • Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photographic Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery (finalist), 2006
  • Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah (finalist), 2006
  • Making Hay at Shear Outback Center, Hay, NSW, and Span Galleries, Melbourne, 2006
  • The Interior World: photographs and photographers from Glen Eira City Council's Collection, Glen Eira City Gallery, Caulfield South, Melbourne, 2004
  • Documenting Australians, A pictorial history of Australian photography, Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, 2002
  • Images of Australian Men, Photographs from the Monash Gallery of Art collection, travelling exhibition, 2002
  • Exhibit X – Group Photographic Exhibition, Lab X Gallery, St Kilda, 2002
  • So You Wanna Be a Rock Star, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2002
  • Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives, Melbourne Museum, touring 10 venues, 2001
  • Woman Photographers, Monash City Gallery, 2000
  • Feminist Art, RMIT First Line Gallery Melbourne, 1999
  • Three Melbourne Photographers, Ballarat Festival, Ballarat, 1997
  • The Power to Move, Aspects of Australian Photography, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1996
  • Six Photographers, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney, 1995
  • On the Edge, Australian Photographers of the Seventies, from the collection of the National Library Australia, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, 1994
  • All in the family – Selected Australian Portraiture, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1994
  • Domain of the Other, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1992
  • Defective Models – Australian Portraiture 19th and 20th Centuries, from regional, university and private collections, Monash University Gallery, 1990
  • Portrait Photography, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1989
  • The Thousand Mile Stare, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, touring Art and Working Life, Roar Studios, Melbourne, 1988
  • Shades of Light – Photography and Australia 1839 to 1988, Australian National Gallery, 1988
  • Living in the Seventies, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1986
  • Australian Photographers, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1984
  • Photographic Work, Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville The Critical Distance, Artspace Sydney, 1983
  • Melbourne Theatre Photographers, Ministry for the Arts, Melbourne, 1982
  • Eight Woman Photographers, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne and Developed Image, Adelaide, 1981
  • Woman's Work, La Trobe University Gallery, Melbourne, 1981
  • Self Portrait/Self Image, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne and touring, 1980
  • 100 Artists, Panel Beaters Gallery, Melbourne, 1978
  • New Conceptualists, Tokyo, 1977
  • Sister’s Delight, Media Resource Centre Gallery, Adelaide, 1977
  • Woman Photographers, Pram Factory, Melbourne, 1976

Publications[]

  • Beyond Reasonable Drought, The Map Group of Photographers, Five Mile Press, 2009
  • Trading Places, text by David Crofts, photos by Ponch Hawkes, City of Greater Dandenong,2006
  • Art of Reconciliation, edited by Ponch Hawkes, City of Melbourne, 2002
  • Australian Water Polo, A Celebration, by Shane Maloney and Ponch Hawkes, Australian Water Polo Inc. 1998
  • Women of Substance, Sue Jackson and Gael Wallace with photographs by Ponch Hawkes, Allen and Unwin, 1998
  • Unfolding – The Story of Australian and New Zealand Memorial Quilt, by Ponch Hawkes with text by Ainsley Yardley and Kim Langley, McPhee Gribble, 1994
  • Best Mates, A Study of Male Friendship, by Ponch Hawkes, McPhee Gribble and Penguin Books, 1990
  • Generations: Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters, by Diane Bell with Ponch Hawkes, McPhee Gribble & Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1987
  • Pay to Play, by Wendy Milson, Helen Thomas and Ponch Hawkes, Penguin,1976

References[]

  1. ^ "Hawkes' view of the world". The Age. Docklands, Victoria, Australia. 22 February 2005. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  2. ^ Northover, Kylie (11 November 2014). "Flash! photo exhibition captures history of Melbourne's performing arts". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Ponch Hawkes". Melbourne Now. National Gallery of Victoria. 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  4. ^ Gosper, Linsey (11 April 2014). "Strange Neighbor exhibition catalogue for KHEM" (PDF). Strange Neighbour. Retrieved 1 November 2015.

Further reading[]

  • LOOK :Contemporary Photography since 1980, Anne Marsh, Macmillan, 2010
  • The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs, Aus Art Editions, 2006
  • Art in Australia, Christopher Allen, Thames & Hudson, 1997
  • The Power to Move: Aspects of Australian Photography, Anne Kirker and Clare Williamson, Queensland Art Gallery, 1995
  • Field of Vision – A Decade of Change: Women's Art in the 70s, Janine Burke, Viking,1990
  • Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers: from Hallmark Cards Australian Photographic Collection, Isobel Combie and Sandra Bryon, National Gallery of Victoria, 1990
  • The Critical Distance – Work with Photography, Virginia Coventry, Hale and Iremonger, 1986

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