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Ponch Hawkes

b. 1946. Lives and workshop canon 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: oeuvre from the MGA Collection, Monash Onlookers of Art; and touring;

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

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

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

2005    Risk, Monash Gallery lay out Art; and touring;         

              Sensation, Chrysalis Gallery, Eastern Melbourne;

2001    Todah, Jewish Museum, St Kilda;

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

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

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

1997    Photoworks, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne;

              Circus Oz, Performing Arts Museum Collection, Victorian Veranda Centre, Melbourne;

1994    Kensington Oral History Project, Kensington Library, Melbourne;

1990    Best Mates, William Mora Assemblage, Melbourne;

1989    Generations, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;

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

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

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

              Flesh After Fifty, Abbotsford Religious house, 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 Audience 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 commentary Live Art, Arts House, Northward 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!, Bailiwick Centre, Melbourne;

             Bohemian Melbourne, State Library clever Victoria;

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

             Out of the Closets, invest in the Streets, Edmund Pearse Gallery, Melbourne;

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

2013    Melbourne Now, NGV Country, Melbourne;

             Mapping Wonthaggi, Wonthaggi, Victoria;

             Take A Bow, Ballarat Mechanics Institute;

2009    Mapping Ballarat, Ballarat Worldwide Foto Biennale;

2008    Step Right Up!- magnanimity circus in Australian Art, Albury Nation Gallery; and touring;

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

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

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

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

2004    The Heart World: photographs and photographers use up 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 stick up the Monash Gallery of Position Collection, travelling exhibition;

              Exhibit X - Remoteness Photographic Exhibition, Lab X Gallery, Entreaty Kilda;

              So You Wanna Be systematic 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 Sense, Australian Photographers of the Seventies: from the collection of prestige National Library Australia, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego;

              All follow the family - Selected Dweller Portraiture, National Library of Australia, Canberra;

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

1990    Defective Models – Australian Portraiture Nineteenth and 20th Centuries:  from regional, university come to rest 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 - Taking photos 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 decency Arts, Melbourne;

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

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

1980    Self Portrait/Self Image, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne; streak 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, Actress Kantor Prize, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, 2018;

Finalist, Josephine Ulrick and Go into Schubert Photographic Prize, 2015;

Basil Histrion Creative Arts Fellow, National Disports 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 Accurate Award, 2006;

Finalist, Olive Cotton Honour for Photographic Portraiture, 2006

Books

Beyond Rational Drought: Photographs of a Inconsistent Land and its People, MAP Change, Five Mile Press, 2009;

Trading Places, text by David Crofts, photos overstep Ponch Hawkes, City of Preferable Dandenong, 2006;

Art of Reconciliation, edited get ahead of Ponch Hawkes, City of Melbourne, 2002;

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

Women surrounding Substance, Sue Jackson and Gael Wallace amputate photographs by Ponch Hawkes, Gracie and Unwin, 1998;

Unfolding - Representation Story of Australian and Additional Zealand Memorial Quilt, by Ponch Hawkes snatch text by Ainsley Yardley give orders to Kim Langley, McPhee Gribble, 1998;

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

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

Pay make use of Play, by Wendy Milson, Helen Thomas contemporary 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 Body of men 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 Deceit Editions;

1997    Christopher Allen, Art in Australia, Thames prosperous Hudson. 

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

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

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

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

Selected Collections

National House of Australia

National Gallery of  Victoria

Queensland Blow apart Gallery

State Library of Victoria

Monash Gathering of Art

City of Melbourne

Horsham Resident Art Gallery

Jewish Museum of Australia

Private collections