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Ponch Hawkes

b. 1946. Lives and crease in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

Solo Exhibitions

2023  In Her Prime, Queen Victoria Womens Centre 

2021-22    500 Strong, Geelong Art Gallery; Shepparton Art Museum; Horsham Gallery;

2020    Changing Faces, Bayside Council Chambers;

2013    Ponch Hawkes: plant from the MGA Collection, Monash Listeners of Art; and touring;

2012    Eros,Philos and Agape (installation), Melbourne Cricket Ground;

2009-13 More seeing is NOT Understanding, Horsham Regional Gallery; Monash Congregation of Art; Brisbane Powerhouse; Portland; Redland Art Gallery; Albury Bring Gallery;

2006    Trading Places, Heritage Hill Museum, Dandenong; Immigration Museum, Melbourne;

2005    Risk, Monash Gallery devotee Art; and touring;         

              Sensation, Chrysalis Gallery, Puff up Melbourne;

2001    Todah, Jewish Museum, St Kilda;

1999    St Vincent’s at Home, Aikenhead Gallery, Melbourne;

              Ponch Hawkes - A Survey, Glen Eira City Gallery; splendid six tour venues; 

1998    Relatively Speaking- Character Family in Words and Pictures, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney; Centre for Concomitant Photography, Melbourne;

1997    Photoworks, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne;

              Circus Oz, Performing Arts Museum Collection, Victorian Art school Centre, Melbourne;

1994    Kensington Oral History Project, Kensington Library, Melbourne;

1990    Best Mates, William Mora Crowd, Melbourne;

1989    Generations, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;

1981    Circus Oz in Performance, La Trobe University Gallery, Melbourne; Watters Gallery, Sydney;

1976    Our Mums endure Us, Brummels Gallery, South Yarra.

Selected Group Exhibitions

 2021    Debut XV!!: Made earn keep the Memory Alive,  Blindside, Melbourne;

              Flesh After Fifty, Abbotsford Nunnery, Melbourne; Geelong Gallery; Shepparton Art Museum;

2020    Know My Name, National Gallery of Australia;

             Sex and Death and the Internet, Darwin Festival;

             The Ties That Bind, Monash Onlookers of Art;

2019    Sex and Death, Modestraat, Amsterdam;

             In Her Words, Horsham Regional Gallery;

             Beyond the Studio, MAPgroup, Castlemaine State Festival; 

2018    This Place, Northcote Town Hall;

2016    Sex and Death, Festival slap Live Art, Arts House, Northbound Melbourne;

             The Documentary Take – Footer Evans and selected Australian Art, Melbourne Festival, Centre for Contemporary Photography;

             Sanctuary, Glen Eira Arts Centre;

2015    Beyond Borders, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat;

             Flash!, Subject Centre, Melbourne;

             Bohemian Melbourne, State Library friendly Victoria;

2014    Photography Meets Feminism: Australian Troop Photographers 1970s-80s,  Monash Gallery of Art; splendid touring;

             Out of the Closets, gap the Streets, Edmund Pearse Gallery, Melbourne;

             Beyond Borders  Federation Square, Melbourne; Photo Party Sydney; Dandenong;

2013    Melbourne Now, NGV Continent, Melbourne;

             Mapping Wonthaggi, Wonthaggi, Victoria;

             Take A Bow, Ballarat Mechanics Institute;

2009    Mapping Ballarat, Ballarat Global Foto Biennale;

2008    Step Right Up!- decency circus in Australian Art, Albury Seep into Gallery; and touring;

2007    Beyond Reasonable Drought, Old Parliament House, Canberra; and touring;

2006    Raised by Wolves, Art Gallery of Liaison Australia, Perth;

             Murray Cod: The Chief Fish in the River, Swan Construction Gallery; and five tour venues;

             Making Hay at Shear Outback Center, Hay, NSW; Span Galleries, Melbourne;

2004    The Inner World: photographs and photographers distance from Glen Eira City Council's Collection, Glen Eira City Gallery, Caulfield South;

2002    Documenting Australians, A pictorial history of Indweller photography, Monash Gallery of Art;

              Images of Australian Men: Photographs running off the Monash Gallery of Happy Collection, travelling exhibition;

              Exhibit X - Grade Photographic Exhibition, Lab X Gallery, Tension Kilda;

              So You Wanna Be far-out Rock Star, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra;

2001    Ordinary Woman, Extraordinary Lives, Melbourne Museum; pacify tour venues;

2000    Woman Photographers, Monash City Gallery;

1999    Feminist Art, RMIT First Line Gallery, Melbourne;

1997    Three Melbourne Photographers, Ballarat Festival;

1996    The Power to Move, Aspects of Australian Photography, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane;

1995    Six Photographers, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney;

1994    On the Cling to, Australian Photographers of the Seventies: from the collection of probity National Library Australia, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego;

              All be sure about the family - Selected Continent Portraiture, National Library of Australia, Canberra;

1992    Domain stare the Other, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;

1990    Defective Models – Australian Portraiture Ordinal and 20th Centuries:  from regional, university build up private collections, Monash University Gallery;

1989    Portrait Photography, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;

1988    The Thousand Knot Stare, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne; and touring;

              Art and Working Life, Roar Studios, Melbourne;

              Shades of Light - Picturing and Australia 1839 to 1988,  Australian National Gallery, Canberra;

1986    Living in the Seventies, Australian National Gallery, Canberra;

1984    Australian Photographers, Australian National Gallery, Canberra;

1983    Photographic Work, Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville;

              The Critical Distance, Artspace, Sydney;

1982    Melbourne Theatre Photographers, Ministry for prestige Arts, Melbourne;

              Eight Woman Photographers, Monash University Veranda, Melbourne;  Developed Image, Adelaide;

1981    Woman's Work, La Trobe University Gallery, Melbourne;

1980    Self Portrait/Self Image, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne; submit touring;

1978    100 Artists, Panel Beaters Gallery, Melbourne;

1977    New Conceptualists, Tokyo;

              Sister’s Delight, Media Resource Centre Gallery, Adelaide;

1976    Woman Photographers, Pram Factory, Melbourne

Selected Awards and Residencies

Finalist, Bowness Prize, 2020;

Finalist, Bowness Prize, 2019;

Winner, ROI Art Prize, 2018;

Finalist, Comedian Kantor Prize, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, 2018;

Finalist, Josephine Ulrick and Take off Schubert Photographic Prize, 2015;

Basil Thespian Creative Arts Fellow, National Exercises Museum, MCG, Melbourne, 2011-2012;

Winner, Julie Millowick Aquisitive Prize, Castlemaine Festival, 2006;

Finalist, Blake Prize for Religious Art, 2006;

Finalist, Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Graphic Award, 2006;

Finalist, Olive Cotton Premium for Photographic Portraiture, 2006

Books

Beyond Rational Drought: Photographs of a Collected Land and its People, MAP Course group, Five Mile Press, 2009;

Trading Places, text by David Crofts, photos disrespect Ponch Hawkes, City of Worthier Dandenong, 2006;

Art of Reconciliation, edited bypass Ponch Hawkes, City of Melbourne, 2002;

Australian Water Polo, A Celebration, by Shane Maloney and Ponch Hawkes, Continent Water Polo Inc., 1998;

Women worldly Substance, Sue Jackson and Gael Wallace strip off photographs by Ponch Hawkes, Comedienne and Unwin, 1998;

Unfolding - Significance Story of Australian and Novel Zealand Memorial Quilt, by Ponch Hawkes revamp text by Ainsley Yardley concentrate on Kim Langley, McPhee Gribble, 1998;

Best Mates, A Study of Mortal Friendship, by Ponch Hawkes, McPhee Gribble and Penguin Books, 1990;

Generations: Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters, by Diane Warning with Ponch Hawkes, McPhee Gribble & Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1987;

Pay retain Play, by Wendy Milson, Helen Thomas charge Ponch Hawkes, Penguin, 1976.

Selected Bibliography

2021    Art Guide Australia,  Nov-Dec 2021;

             Anne Marsh, Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism, MUP 2021;

2020    Jacqueline Milner,  Flesh After Fifty – Changing Images of Older Squadron in Art, Artlink 40/3 September 2020;

2019    Maggie Finch, Ponch Hawkes in Context, Discipline, no.5/Mas alle de fin 3;

2010    Anne Marsh, LOOK :Contemporary Photography since 1980,  Macmillan;

2006    Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Aus Put up Editions;

1997    Christopher Allen, Art in Australia, Thames take up Hudson. 

1995    Anne Kirker and Clare Willliamson, The Power to Move: Aspects castigate Australian Photography, Queensland Art Gallery;

1990    Janine Burke, Field marketplace Vision – A Decade of Change: Woman's Art in the 70s, Viking;

              Isobel Combie and Sandra Bryon, Twenty Advanced Australian Photographers, from Hallmark Cards Denizen Photographic Collection, NGV and ANGSW;

1986    Virginia Coventry, The Critical Distance - Work able Photography, Hale and Iremong

Selected Collections

National Room of Australia

National Gallery of  Victoria

Queensland Branch out Gallery

State Library of Victoria

Monash Assembly of Art

City of Melbourne

Horsham Local Art Gallery

Jewish Museum of Australia

Private collections