Susan Hawkins uses reclaimed industrial and domestic objects and incorporates motors, sound and video to create sculptures and installations for both art galleries and the public realm. She is interested in how these objects reference forgotten symbolic power (for example a discarded telecommunications tower) while playfully altering them to highlight the symbolic bias of our personal and public surroundings.

Born in Gunnedah NSW, Susan Hawkins is a interdisciplinary artist who has been exhibiting across Australia for five years. Hawkins graduated from the Queensland College of Art in 2014 with a Bachelor of Fine Art (double major of sculpture, and jewellery and small objects). Hawkins had her first solo show at Blindside, Melbourne in 2016.​ In 2017 she was the artist in residence at Metro Arts, Brisbane, and exhibited her second solo show The Remainder.  The Speaker, was shown at Outer Space Artist Run Initiative from the 15-31st March 2019.Her Latest solo show was shown at Milani Gallery in August 2019. Hawkins has been a finalist in the Redland Art Awards, The Gold Coast Art Prize and the The Willoughby Sculpture Prize.

Curriculum Vitae

e. susiehawko@gmail.com
m. 0423 266 501

Press and Publications
2019 Catalogue essay by Kate Woodcroft for The Speaker, Outer Space, Brisbane.
​2017 Catalogue essay by Kate Woodcroft for The Remainder, Metro Arts, Brisbane. 
2017 Catalogue essay by Jenna Green for With+Within​ with Helen Bird, Artisan, Brisbane.
​2016 Catalogue essay by Alexandra Walker for Make of Me, Blindside, Melbourne.