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Since graduating with First Class Honours from Sydney College of the Arts in 2015, Sammy Hawker has been recognised nationally for her experimental approach to photography. 

Over the past 5 years, Sammy has exhibited six critically acclaimed solo-shows across ACT & NSW. 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 also 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 winner of the 2022 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize and the winner of the 2023 Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize. Over the years she has been a finalist in numerous prizes including (more recently) the 2024 National Photography Prize (MAMA), 2024 Mosman Art Prize (in collaboration with Uncle Owen Carriage), 2023 Bowness Prize (Museum of Australian Photography), 2022 & 2024 Goulburn Art Award and 2023 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize. In 2021 Sammy was a recipient of the Canberra Critics Circle Award for photography for her exhibition 'Acts of Co-Creation'.

In 2024 Sammy was artist-in-residence at both Woollahra Gallery and Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, exhibiting new solo-shows at these galleries. In the coming years she is working towards a residency & solo-show at Tweed Regional Gallery (2025) and a solo-show at Orange Regional Gallery (2026). 

Education

  • Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours) completed at Sydney College of the Arts [2015]


Achievements / Awards / Acquisitions  

  • Finalist | National Photography Prize | Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) [March 2024]

  • Snow Gum #2 acquired by the Canberra Hospital [2024]

  • Finalist (in collaboration w Uncle Owen Carriage)| Mosman Art Prize [2024]

  • Finalist | Goulburn Art Award | Goulburn Regional Art Gallery [2024]

  • Caterpillars in Metamorphosis | Winner Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize | PhotoAccess [2023]

  • Finalist | Bowness Photography Prize | Museum of Australian Photography [2023]

  • Finalist | Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize [2023]

  • Mount Gulaga  | Winner of Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize & acquired by Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre [2022]

  • Melt acquired by the ACT Legislative Assembly [2022]

  • Ngungara #1 acquired by Canberra Museum & Gallery (CMAG) [2021]

  • Recipient of a Canberra Critics Circle Award for for the Acts of Co-Creation exhibition [2021]

Solo Exhibitions 

  • Conversation with Bees | Goulburn Regional Gallery [2024-2025]

  • [holding] space | Woollahra Gallery [2024] 

  • Salt | The Mixing Room Gallery [2023]

  • Melt | PhotoAccess [ 2021]

  • Acts of Co-Creation | Mixing Room Gallery [2021]

  • Dieback | PhotoAccess [2019]

Public Works 

  • Red Dirt Hymns | Canberra International Music Festival - National Museum of Australia [2024]

  • ERTHWRX (in collaboration with Jack Zeising) | the CORRIDOR project [2024]

  • Water Memory | Waterways Exhibition & Symposium | National Museum of Australia [2022]

  • Ocean Resonance | Canberra Art Biennial [2022]

  • Portrait | artsACT & Contour 556 ‘City Commissions’ [2022]

Residencies

  • Artist in Residence | Goulburn Regional Art Gallery [2024] 

  • Artist in Residence | Woollahra Gallery [2023/2024]

  • Artist in Residence | the CORRIDOR project [2022-2025]

  • Project Alchemy Artist | funded by Rebus Theatre [2022-2023]

  • Artist in Residence | PhotoAccess [2021]

Recent Group Exhibitions 

  • With Nature | Canberra Contemporary Art Space [2024] 

  • Hill End Analogue | Hill End [2023]

  • The Tale of Two Rivers | Water Justice Hub, ANU | Broken Hill Arts Exchange [2023]

  • Canberra/Kamberri  - Place & People | Canberra Museum & Gallery  [2023-4] 

  • Bundian Way Arts Exchange | ANU School of Art & Design Gallery [2021]

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