“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 analogue photographic techniques, chromatography and cymatics to create imagery which is worked into multidisciplinary immersive exhibitions that encompass photography, printmaking, text, sculpture, sound and moving image.

Through processes of reciprocity (act of co-creation), Sammy’s works facilitate the expression of more-than human realms. These works form a vast and ongoing archive, documenting sites and moments of exchange. They reflect on how memory and knowledge is inscribed within materials and allude towards the alchemical notion that essence can survive the transmutation of forms.

Sammy is a multi-award winning artist who is recognised internationally for her experimental approach to practice. Her work is held in public collections across Australia and in private 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.

“Sammy Hawker's photographs hum and crackle and whisper with a compelling sentience that evades most ordinary landscape images. But then Hawker's photographs are anything but ordinary.”

Art Collector
Jo Higgins, 2024