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Nationality
  
Australian


Name
  
Ponch Hawkes

Ponch Hawkes Artworks by Ponch Hawkes Chrysalis Gallery

Books
  
Best Mates: A Study, Australian Water Polo: A Celebration

Bach in the Castle of Heaven


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.

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Ponch Hawkes Artworks by Ponch Hawkes Chrysalis Gallery

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.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • Our Mums and Us and These Women have Just Run 26 Miles Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia, 2013
  • Eros,Philos and Agape Melbourne Cricket Ground, 2012
  • Basil Sellers Creative Arts Fellow National Sports Museum, MCG, 2011–12
  • More seeing is NOT Understanding Monash Gallery of Art,Brisbane Powerhouse, Portland, Redlands Qld, Albury, 2009
  • Seeing Is Not Understanding Horsham, Regional Gallery, 2009
  • Trading Places, Heritage Hill Museum, Dandenong and Immigration Museum, Melbourne, 2006
  • Risk Monash Gallery of Art, 2005
  • Sensation Chrysalis Gallery, East Melbourne, 2005
  • They're downstairs North Melbourne Arts House, 2003
  • Todah Jewish Museum, St Kilda, Melbourne, 2001
  • St Vincent’s at Home, Aikenhead Gallery, Melbourne 1999
  • Relatively Speaking The Family in Words and Pictures, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney, and Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 1998
  • Photoworks Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne, 1997
  • Circus Oz Performing Arts Museum Collection, Westpac Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, 1997
  • Best Mates William Mora Gallery, Melbourne, 1990
  • Generations National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,1989
  • Circus Oz in Performance La Trobe University Gallery and Watters Gallery, Sydney, 1981
  • Our Mums and Us Brummels Gallery, Melbourne 1976

    • Selected Group Exhibition

  • Photography Meets Feminism: Australian women photographers 1970s–80s, A Monash Gallery of Art travelling exhibition, 2014-2015
  • Beyond Borders, MAP Group, Ballarat International Photo Biennale, 2015
  • Melbourne Now National Gallery of Victoria, 2013-2014
  • KHEM, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne, Curated by Linsey Gosper, April 11 – May 3, 2014
  • Take A Bow Ballarat Mechanics Institute, 2013
  • Mining The Collection, Albury City Gallery, 2011
  • Brummels, Monash Gallery of Art, 2011
  • Mapping Ballarat, Ballarat Foto Biennale, 2011
  • Basil Sellers Art prize,(finalist) Ian Potter Museum of Art, 2011
  • Timelines, National Gallery of Victoria, 2011
  • Mapping Ballarat, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, 2009
  • Beyond Reasonable Drought, Old Parliament House, Canberra and touring, 2007
  • Raised by Wolves, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2006
  • Julie Millowick Aquisitive Prize, Castlemaine Festival (winner), 2006
  • Murray Cod: The Biggest Fish in the River, Swan Hill Gallery and 5 other venues, 2006
  • Blake prize for Religious Art (finalist), 2006
  • Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photographic Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery (finalist), 2006
  • Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah (finalist), 2006
  • Making Hay at Shear Outback Center, Hay, NSW, and Span Galleries, Melbourne, 2006
  • The Interior World: photographs and photographers from Glen Eira City Council's Collection, Glen Eira City Gallery, Caulfield South, Melbourne, 2004
  • Documenting Australians, A pictorial history of Australian photography, Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, 2002
  • Images of Australian Men, Photographs from the Monash Gallery of Art collection, travelling exhibition, 2002
  • Exhibit X - Group Photographic Exhibition, Lab X Gallery, St Kilda, 2002
  • So You Wanna Be a Rock Star, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2002
  • Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives, Melbourne Museum, touring 10 venues, 2001
  • Woman Photographers, Monash City Gallery, 2000
  • Feminist Art, RMIT First Line Gallery Melbourne, 1999
  • Three Melbourne Photographers, Ballarat Festival, Ballarat, 1997
  • The Power to Move, Aspects of Australian Photography, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1996
  • Six Photographers, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney, 1995
  • On the Edge, Australian Photographers of the Seventies, from the collection of the National Library Australia, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego,1994
  • All in the family - Selected Australian Portraiture, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1994
  • Domain of the Other, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1992
  • Defective Models – Australian Portraiture 19th and 20th Centuries, from regional, university and private collections, Monash University Gallery, 1990
  • Portrait Photography, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra,1989
  • The Thousand Mile Stare, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, touring Art and Working Life, Roar Studios, Melbourne,1988
  • Shades of Light - Photography and Australia 1839 to 1988, Australian National Gallery, 1988
  • Living in the Seventies, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1986
  • Australian Photographers, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1984
  • Photographic Work, Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville The Critical Distance, Artspace Sydney, 1983
  • Melbourne Theatre Photographers, Ministry for the Arts, Melbourne, 1982
  • Eight Woman Photographers, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne and Developed Image, Adelaide, 1981
  • Woman's Work, La Trobe University Gallery, Melbourne, 1981
  • Self Portrait/Self Image, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne and touring, 1980
  • 100 Artists, Panel Beaters Gallery, Melbourne, 1978
  • New Conceptualists, Tokyo,1977
  • Sister’s Delight, Media Resource Centre Gallery, Adelaide, 1977
  • Woman Photographers, Pram Factory, Melbourne, 1976

    • Publications

  • Beyond Reasonable Drought, The Map Group of Photographers, Five Mile Press, 2009
  • Trading Places, text by David Crofts, photos by Ponch Hawkes, City of Greater Dandenong,2006
  • Art of Reconciliation, edited by Ponch Hawkes, City of Melbourne, 2002
  • Australian Water Polo, A Celebration, by Shane Maloney and Ponch Hawkes, Australian Water Polo Inc. 1998
  • Women of Substance, Sue Jackson and Gael Wallace with photographs by Ponch Hawkes, Allen and Unwin, 1998
  • Unfolding - The Story of Australian and New Zealand Memorial Quilt, by Ponch Hawkes with text by Ainsley Yardley and Kim Langley, McPhee Gribble, 1994
  • Best Mates, A Study of Male Friendship, by Ponch Hawkes, McPhee Gribble and Penguin Books, 1990
  • Generations: Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters, by Diane Bell with Ponch Hawkes, McPhee Gribble & Penguin Books, Melbourne,1987
  • Pay to Play, by Wendy Milson, Helen Thomas and Ponch Hawkes, Penguin,1976

    • References

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