SAMMY HAWKER

Sammy Hawker is an Australian based visual artist working predominantly on Ngunawal/Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country [Canberra Region, ACT]. In her practice Sammy explores the potential of reciprocal engagements between human and more-than-human worlds. Her multi-disciplinary practice consistently embraces text, sculpture, photography, sound and moving image. These works form part of a vast and ongoing archive documenting sites and moments of exchange. Her work raises questions abut the sentience and memory inscribed within materials.

Since 2019 Sammy has had four critically acclaimed solo-shows in the ACT, with her 2021 exhibition 'Acts of Co-Creation' at The Mixing Room Gallery a recipient of a Canberra Critics Circle Award for photography. Works from these shows have been acquired by the Canberra Museum & Gallery, the ACT Legislative Assembly, the Canberra Hospital, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre and sold widely to private national and international collections. Sammy’s work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra Museum & Gallery, Canberra Contemporary Art Space and as part of the 2022 Canberra Art Biennial.

Sammy was the winner of the 2022 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize and 2023 Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize. In 2024 she was one of 12 finalists in the presitigious National Photography Prize hosted at MAMA.

Sammy has been artist in residence at the CORRIDOR project (2023-4), Woollahra Gallery (2024), Goulburn Regional Art Gallery (2024) and PhotoAccess (2021).

Her exhibition Conversations with bees is currently showing at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery (22 November - 1 February). Sammy is now working towards a 2025 solo show at Orange Regional Gallery (June - August) and a residency & 2025 solo show at Tweed Regional Gallery (June - November).

For enquires & commissions:

email: samantha.v.hawker@gmail.com
phone: +61 422 436 087