SUPERCUT x Susan Hawkins
30 November 2022 - 9 January 2023
Share House
Image: Susan HAWKINS / Share House, 2022 / various materials / dimensions variable / © Susan Hawkins
Reclaimed domestic and industrial objects are what shapes Susan Hawkins’ arts practice.
Like all things in the universe, people and objects are always in flux - their importance or value to us is ever changing. But they rarely leave us entirely; they are only worn away slowly by the current of time - from physical presence, to objects, to memories. Thinking about my time in share houses collecting simple objects and making do with what was easily accessible, this arts practice investigates the quantity that is left over. Industrial and domestic objects, rescued and reimagined by Hawkins are used as a metaphor to propose how rethinking can create opportunity rather than waste. Share House plays with the idea of an object being present until the end of time, as the pieces of these sculptures are dependent on each other, we as humans need other humans. More serious questions are also present, how can we rethink the current housing crisis and the general inequality that is so prevalent in the human race?
Share House with special guest Melissa Matveyeff, who will be interacting with the objects at different times during the exhibition.
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Outer Space Window Gallery
2R-C, 420 Brunswick Street
Fortitude Valley Q 4006
(map here)
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Susan Hawkins is a Gunnedah NSW born and Brisbane based interdisciplinary artist who has been exhibiting across Australia for eight years. Hawkins completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art in 2014 with a double major of sculpture/ jewellery and small objects. Hawkins had her first solo show, Make of Me, at Blindside, Melbourne in 2016. In 2017 she was the artist in residence at Metro Arts, Brisbane, where she exhibited her second solo show, The Remainder. In 2019, The Speaker, was shown at Outer Space Artist Run Initiative from the 15-31st March 2019, and in August that year Considering Space was shown at CarPark Gallery West End. A series of site specific interactive sound sculptures, curated by people+artist+place was exhibited at the Howard Smith Wharfs from the 11-13th October 2019 as part of Brisbane City Councils Temporary Public Art program. In 2020, Hawkins was awarded the New South Wales Art Gallery, Moya Dyring 2 month residency at Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. Hawkins has been a finalist in the Redland Art Awards, The Gold Coast Art Prize, the The Willoughby Sculpture Prize and 15 Artists at Redcliffe Art Gallery.
Reconfigured install:
SUPERCUT is supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative and is presented in partnership with Artspace Mackay and Northsite Contemporary Arts, Cairns.