RECENT NEWS
CONVERSATIONS WITH BEES
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
22 November - 1 February, 2024
This show evolved from research around the European ritual ‘telling the bees’, where honeybees are told of recent deaths in a beekeeper’s household. It is believed if the bees are not informed they might leave the hive and follow the deceased into the afterlife. It is understood the practice has its origins in Celtic mythology where bees are regarded as messengers between the natural world and the spirit realm; a portal connecting the living and the dead.
Over the past few years the artist have been delivering photographic negatives to two hives of honeybees. These images are witness to ecologically disturbed sites along the ever-shifting shoreline of Ngungara/Weereewa/Lake George.
Conversing with bees is a practice of recognising and grieving the losses of a changed and changing world. This exhibtion is a reflection on liminal [in-between] spaces, and a consideration of how European mythology has become entangled within the Australian landscape.
https://goulburnregionalartgallery.com.au/exhibitions/sammy-hawker
poster design by Studio Garbett.
2024 NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE
Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA)
23 March - 1 September, 2024
Beyond the Veil [diptych]
National Photography Prize, 2024
image: Jeremy Weihrauch
[HOLDING] SPACE
Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf
6 March - 17 March, 2024
Sammy Hawker, space_3 (the physical universe beyond the earth's atmosphere), 2024
How does a space communicate? What exists in ‘empty’ space? Topographically, a harbour (noun) is a holding space – a body of water protected from the wind, waves and ocean currents that churn beyond; deep enough to allow anchorage. To harbour (verb) is to keep a thought or feeling, especially secretly. Sydney harbour is a holding space of secrets and memories; the residue of its history saturates its bays, banks and depths.
Processed with water from the harbour, the analogue photographs in this exhibition resonate with the memories that exist within. They tell of the dark violence of colonisation, the dendritic pattern of the harbour’s sunken river valley, the fig trees that line its shores and the icy comets & grains of solar dust that formed the Earth’s oceans.
The works in this exhibition were created during a 3- month artist residency at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf. The artist would like to acknowledge the Gadigal, Birrabirragal & Cammeraygal people - the Traditional Custodians of the lands & waters that the works in this series were created.
https://www.woollahragallery.com.au/Artists/Artists-in-Residence/Sammy-Hawker
ABC ARTS [Febuary, 2024]
profile by Eloise Fuss
Visual artist Sammy Hawker uses analogue cameras and inventive photography techniques.(ABC Arts: Eloise Fuss)
ART COLLECTOR #107 [January - March, 2024]
profile by Jo Higgins
WITH NATURE
Canberra Contemporary Art Space
group show curated by Alexander Boynes
9 February - 6 April 2024
https://issuu.com/ccas_canberra/docs/with_nature_-_catalogue
With Nature, 2024
Canberra Contemporary Art Space
install image: Brenton McGeachie
CANBERRA CITY NEWS [February, 2024]
profile by Helen Musa
https://citynews.com.au/2024/art-from-emotional-ashes-of-black-summer-fires/
ABC ‘Art Works’
[Series 3, Episode 3, 2023]
produced by Richard Mockler
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