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Lot 4070

NATHAN HAWKES (born 1980)
Songs of that Kind 2022
chalk pastel on paper
220 x 150cm (frame)

Estimate $4,000 - $6,000

Unsold


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

The Auction Salon: Art

AUCTION
Sale: LJW8576
10:03am - 6 November 2025
Hawthorn (Auction online only)

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