Lot 37
Songs of that Kind 2022
chalk pastel on paper
220 x 150cm (frame)
Estimate $7,000 - $10,000
Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne 2022
Private collection, Melbourne
Nathan Hawkes: The Early Lessons, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne, 29 November - 17 December 2022
"Hawkes challenges the assumed distinction between the ecologies within the frame of a drawing and the ecologies of the natural world. The subject and object divide of traditional landscape drawing, wavers, hesitates, disappears through the sensation of media. Here we are referring to two things at once: media that is the charcoal and chalk pastels used to make these drawings and the media that is fire, water, air, and earth...This is Hawkes' contribution: to add to the conversation of what it feels and means to be in this moment where we are moving away from the philosophical and ontological or toward an and. This or that, no longer makes sense. We cannot distinguish between the natural or artificial. Now there is plastics in our blood, we are natural and artificial, we are afraid and hopeful, media (evoking all the word's definitions) will destroy us and save us, the elements – the floods and fires – are over there and they are inside us."
(excerpt from exhibition, Jaimme Edwards 2022)
© Nathan Hawkes/Copyright Agency, 2025
Fine Art
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8795
6:00pm - 21 October 2025
Hawthorn
VIEWING
SYD: Highlight lot 13
Fri 10 - Sun 12 Oct, 10am - 4pm, The Bond, 36-40 Queen Street, Woollahra
MEL: Fri 17 Oct - Sun 19 Oct, 10am - 4pm
2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn VIC
CONTACT
Wiebke Brix
wiebke.brix@leonardjoel.com.au
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