Ponch Hawkes 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 of Victoria and written about in the Sydney Morning Herald .
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.
Our Mums and Us and These Women have Just Run 26 Miles Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia, 2013Eros,Philos and Agape Melbourne Cricket Ground , 2012Basil Sellers Creative Arts Fellow National Sports Museum, MCG, 2011–12More seeing is NOT Understanding Monash Gallery of Art,Brisbane Powerhouse , Portland, Redlands Qld, Albury, 2009Seeing Is Not Understanding Horsham, Regional Gallery, 2009Trading Places , Heritage Hill Museum, Dandenong and Immigration Museum, Melbourne, 2006Risk Monash Gallery of Art, 2005Sensation Chrysalis Gallery, East Melbourne, 2005They're downstairs North Melbourne Arts House, 2003Todah Jewish Museum, St Kilda, Melbourne, 2001St Vincent’s at Home , Aikenhead Gallery, Melbourne 1999Relatively Speaking The Family in Words and Pictures, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney, and Centre for Contemporary Photography , Melbourne, 1998Photoworks Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne, 1997Circus Oz Best Mates William Mora Gallery, Melbourne, 1990Generations National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne,1989Circus Oz in Performance La Trobe University Gallery and Watters Gallery, Sydney, 1981Our Mums and Us Brummels Gallery , Melbourne 1976Photography Meets Feminism: Australian women photographers 1970s–80s , A Monash Gallery of Art travelling exhibition, 2014-2015Beyond Borders, MAP Group, Ballarat International Photo Biennale, 2015Melbourne Now National Gallery of Victoria, 2013-2014KHEM, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne, Curated by Linsey Gosper, April 11 – May 3, 2014Take A Bow Ballarat Mechanics Institute, 2013Mining The Collection, Albury City Gallery, 2011Brummels, Monash Gallery of Art, 2011Mapping Ballarat, Ballarat Foto Biennale, 2011Basil Sellers Art prize ,(finalist) Ian Potter Museum of Art , 2011Timelines, National Gallery of Victoria, 2011Mapping Ballarat , Ballarat International Foto Biennale, 2009Beyond Reasonable Drought , Old Parliament House , Canberra and touring, 2007Raised by Wolves , Art Gallery of Western Australia , 2006Julie Millowick Aquisitive Prize , Castlemaine Festival (winner), 2006Murray Cod: The Biggest Fish in the River , Swan Hill Gallery and 5 other venues, 2006Blake prize for Religious Art (finalist), 2006Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photographic Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery (finalist), 2006Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture , Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah (finalist), 2006Making Hay at Shear Outback Center , Hay, NSW, and Span Galleries, Melbourne, 2006The Interior World: photographs and photographers from Glen Eira City Council's Collection , Glen Eira City Gallery, Caulfield South, Melbourne, 2004Documenting Australians, A pictorial history of Australian photography , Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, 2002Images of Australian Men, Photographs from the Monash Gallery of Art collection , travelling exhibition, 2002Exhibit X - Group Photographic Exhibition, Lab X Gallery, St Kilda, 2002So You Wanna Be a Rock Star , National Portrait Gallery , Canberra, 2002Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives , Melbourne Museum , touring 10 venues, 2001Woman Photographers , Monash City Gallery, 2000Feminist Art , RMIT First Line Gallery Melbourne, 1999Three Melbourne Photographers , Ballarat Festival, Ballarat, 1997The Power to Move , Aspects of Australian Photography , Queensland Art Gallery , Brisbane, 1996Six Photographers , Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney, 1995On the Edge, Australian Photographers of the Seventies , from the collection of the National Library Australia , San Diego Museum of Art , San Diego,1994All in the family - Selected Australian Portraiture , National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1994Domain of the Other, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1992Defective Models – Australian Portraiture 19th and 20th Centuries, from regional, university and private collections , Monash University Gallery, 1990Portrait Photography , National Gallery of Australia , Canberra,1989The Thousand Mile Stare , Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, touring Art and Working Life, Roar Studios, Melbourne,1988Shades of Light - Photography and Australia 1839 to 1988 , Australian National Gallery, 1988Living in the Seventies , Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1986Australian Photographers , Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1984Photographic Work , Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville The Critical Distance, Artspace Sydney, 1983Melbourne Theatre Photographers , Ministry for the Arts, Melbourne, 1982Eight Woman Photographers , Monash University Gallery, Melbourne and Developed Image, Adelaide, 1981 Woman's Work , La Trobe University Gallery, Melbourne, 1981Self Portrait/Self Image , Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne and touring, 1980100 Artists , Panel Beaters Gallery, Melbourne, 1978New Conceptualists , Tokyo,1977Sister’s Delight , Media Resource Centre Gallery, Adelaide, 1977Woman Photographers , Pram Factory, Melbourne, 1976Beyond Reasonable Drought, The Map Group of Photographers, Five Mile Press, 2009Trading Places , text by David Crofts, photos by Ponch Hawkes, City of Greater Dandenong,2006Art of Reconciliation, edited by Ponch Hawkes, City of Melbourne , 2002Australian Water Polo, A Celebration , by Shane Maloney and Ponch Hawkes, Australian Water Polo Inc. 1998Women of Substance , Sue Jackson and Gael Wallace with photographs by Ponch Hawkes, Allen and Unwin, 1998Unfolding - The Story of Australian and New Zealand Memorial Quilt , by Ponch Hawkes with text by Ainsley Yardley and Kim Langley, McPhee Gribble, 1994Best Mates, A Study of Male Friendship , by Ponch Hawkes, McPhee Gribble and Penguin Books, 1990Generations: Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters , by Diane Bell with Ponch Hawkes, McPhee Gribble & Penguin Books, Melbourne,1987Pay to Play , by Wendy Milson, Helen Thomas and Ponch Hawkes, Penguin,1976
