“Through what she terms “facilitated acts of co-creation,” Hawker gives voice to places, materials, and the more-than-human world. Under her gentle guidance, whale song takes shape, ocean water becomes collaborator, salt crystals scatter themselves like stars across analogue film, and ashes murmur secrets onto silver nitrate-soaked paper.”

Sammy Hawker engages reciprocal processes to facilitate the expression of more-than human realms. These acts of co-creation require the artist to surrender control, opening the process to unpredictable (often mysteriously serendipitous) results, which reflect how memory and knowledge is inscribed within materials.

Sammy’s works form a vast and ongoing archive, documenting sites and moments of exchange through techniques of photography, chromatography and cymatics. The resulting imagery is worked into multidisciplinary, immersive exhibitions which encompass photography, printmaking, text, sculpture, sound and moving image.

Sammy is a multi-award winning artist who is recognised internationally for her experimental approach to practice. She has exhibited widely at public institutions across Australia and her work is held in collections around the world. Full artist bio here.

The artist acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters which on (and with) she creates her work. She extends this acknowledgement to all First Peoples of Australia and recognise their continual connection and care for Country. 5% (or more) of profits from Sammy’s artwork sales goes towards organisations supporting the vitality of Country. Read more about Sammy’s approach to process here.