Image: Souvenirs of Tasmania, 2008. Wood, acrylic, shells, cuttlefish, pigment, steel wire and found materials
Gay Hawkes
| Location: |
Tasmania |
| Origin: |
Tasmania |
| Occupation: |
Arts educator |
Since completing an Associate Diploma in Fine Arts at the Tasmanian School of Art in 1980, Gay Hawkes has sustained a career as a professional artist working itinerantly from a studio base in Dunalley, Tasmania. While she is known in Tasmania for furniture and costume design, her practice also encompasses installation and performance works that often have colourful intent and occasionally are operatic in scope.
Hawkes has enjoyed numerous artist in residence placements across Australia and internationally, including in Ireland, New Zealand and Norway as well as at Cape York and Cape Barren Island. She has also taught art at a tertiary level, to primary and secondary school students, in prisons and to disadvantaged children.
She has exhibited regularly in the eastern states of Australia since 1982, and her works are held in the collections of the: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of South Australia, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Parliament House, Canberra, Australian War Memorial, Canberra and Artbank, as well as in public collections in New Zealand and Norway.
