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Ponch Hawkes (born 1946) is an Australian photographer whose work explores intergenerational relationships, queer identity and LGBTQI+ rights, the female body, masculinity, and women at work, capturing key moments in Australia's cultural and social histories.
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. 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.
Work
Her work has been included in major Australian exhibitions such as Melbourne Now (2013) at the National Gallery of Victoria and Know My Name (2021/22) at the National Gallery of Australia. Hawke's work is represented in the collections of numerous significant institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, State Library of Victoria, City of Melbourne, Horsham Regional Gallery, Monash Gallery of Art, the Women's Art Register, and the Jewish Museum of Australia. Hawkes has collaborated with the Pram factory and Circus Oz, and was the first administrator of the Women's Theatre Group in the 1970s.
Hawkes' photographic work is broad in its scope, including the portrayal of artists, feminists, sportspeople, public figures and candid street-photographs. The photographs are often exhibited as a series or multiples, and the subjects in the work are often invited to actively participate in the process.[1] Through this method, Hawkes pursues a sustained interest in the way individuals use their bodies and the way individuals relate, through their bodies, to each other. Hawke's first exhibited body of work, the 1976 photo essay Our Mums and Us, featured her female friends and their mothers, among them the writer Helen Garner. More recent projects ha
Ponch Hawkes
b. 1946. Lives and works 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: works from the MGA Collection, Monash Gallery of Art; and touring;
2012 Eros,Philos and Agape (installation), Melbourne Cricket Ground;
2009-13 More seeing is NOT Understanding, Horsham Regional Gallery; Monash Gallery of Art; Brisbane Powerhouse; Portland; Redland Art Gallery; Albury City Gallery;
2006 Trading Places, Heritage Hill Museum, Dandenong; Immigration Museum, Melbourne;
2005 Risk, Monash Gallery of Art; and touring;
Sensation, Chrysalis Gallery, East Melbourne;
2001 Todah, Jewish Museum, St Kilda;
1999 St Vincent’s at Home, Aikenhead Gallery, Melbourne;
Ponch Hawkes - A Survey, Glen Eira City Gallery; and six tour venues;
1998 Relatively Speaking- The Family in Words and Pictures, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney; Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne;
1997 Photoworks, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne;
Circus Oz, Performing Arts Museum Collection, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne;
1994 Kensington Oral History Project, Kens Born in Melbourne in 1946, Ponch Hawkes is a Melbourne based freelance photographer. Early in her career she worked as a journalist and photographer for Digger magazine; since then her photographs have been published widely, in Australian books, magazines and newspapers. 2006 Trading Places, Heritage Hill Museum, Dandenong and Immigration Museum, Melbourne Australian Photographer (born 1946) Ponch Hawkes (born 1946) is an Australian photographer whose work explores intergenerational relationships, queer identity and LGBTQI+ rights, the female body, masculinity, and women at work, capturing key moments in Australia's cultural and social histories. Hawkes was born in Abbotsford, Victoria, in 1946 and educated at University High School. She is self-taught, having never formally studied photography. 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. Her work has been included in major Australian exhibitions such as Melbourne Now (2013) at the National Gallery of Victoria and Know My Name (2021/22) at the National Gallery of Australia. Hawke's work is represented in the collections of numerous significant institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, State Library of Victoria, City of Melbourne, Horsham Regional Gallery, Monash Gallery of Art, the Women's Art Register, and the Jewish Museum of Australia. Hawkes has collaborated with the Pram factory and Circus Oz, and was the first administrator of the Women's Theatre Group in the 1970s. Hawkes' photographic work is broad in its scope, including the portrayal of artists, feminists, sportspeople, public figures and candid street-photographs. The photographs are often exhibited as a series or multiples, and the subjects in the work are often invited to actively participate in the process.[2] Through this method, Hawkes pursues a sustained interest in the way individuals use their bodies and the way individuals relate, through their bodies, to each other.[10
Chrysalis Gallery
Biography
Hawkes has been the photographer for, and a member of, Circus Oz since its inception in 1978.
She has also been a member and the photographer of The Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory since the early 1970s, and was the first administrator of the Womens Theatre Group in the mid 1970s.
Her solo book ‘Best Mates’ was published in 1990, (McPhee Gribble); she has collaborated on a further six published books.
Hawkes has worked on assignment in Cambodia, Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Holland, England and the USA, amongst other countries.
Fourteen solo exhibitions of her work have been held since 1976, including ‘Generations’, a solo exhibition held at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1989. Her photographs are held in the Collections of the Australian National Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery, State Library of Victoria, Monash Gallery of Art, City of Melbourne, Albury Regional Art Gallery and private collections in Australia and overseas.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Risk, Monash Gallery of Art
Sensation, Chrysalis Gallery, East Melbourne
2003 They're downstairs, North Melbourne Arts House
2001 Todah, Jewish Museum, St Kilda, Melbourne
1999 St Vincent’s at Home, Aikenhead Gallery, Melbourne
Ponch Hawkes - A Survey, Gle Ponch Hawkes
Early life and education
Work