Ponch hawkes biography examples
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Chrysalis Gallery
Biography
Born in Melbourne in 1946, Ponch Hawkes fryst vatten a Melbourne based freelance photographer. Early in her career she worked as a reporter and photographer for Digger magazine; since then her photographs have been published widely, in Australian books, magazines and newspapers.
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 hel
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Gallery One
Exhibition dates: 26th February – 18th April 2021
Ruth Maddison (Australian, b. 1945)
Equal pay demo, Bourke Street Melbourne
1985
Pigment print from scanned negative
39 x 58cm (image size)
Courtesy of the artist and the Centre for Contemporary Photography
“One can also pursue politics with art.
Everything that intervenes in the processes of life, and transforms them, is politics.”
Hans Richter
“I always wanted to document people’s lives – their work, their family, their relationships, their leisure – their pain and pleasure.
“To me, every individual’s life is more wondrous than any fantasy could ever be.”
Ruth Maddison
The Art of a Fellow Traveller
Since the 1970s Australia has been blessed with many talented women photographers… Sue Ford, Carol Jerrems, Joyce Evans, Ponch Hawkes, Micky Allan, Ruth Maddison, Rosemary Laing, Hoda Afshar, Anne Fe
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Ponch Hawkes
Bio
Ponch Hawkes (b. 1946) is an Australian photographer and writer. A large part of Hawkes work documents Australian society and cultural life since the 1970s. Some of this has centered on queer identity and LGBTQI+ politics and communities. Hawkes' work stands out for documenting Lesbian women intimacy and communities, a rarity in a field that prioritises gay male perspectives. Hawkes' work through a commentary on Australian social movements speaks to the interconnected histories of feminist and LGBTQI+ movements. Although not confined to one particular thematic, Hawkes' work spans decades and the oeuvre represents an ongoing interrogation of the personal foundations that defined late 20th century Australian culture, for example sport, masculinity, intergenerational relationships, and labour.
In 1989, her solo exhibition Generations was held at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (NGV). Her book Best Mates: A Study was published in 1990. A survey exhibi