Lesley Hawker

I have found a balance between, coordinating and teaching Secondary Visual Art in a regional high school and creating my own predominately contemporary work. My work explores personal narratives depicting my connections to place across time as a regional woman, artist, mother and teacher. Local histories and cultural stories contextualise contemporary responses as metaphors of the familiar ground of ‘my place’. My work is informed by gestural mark making and the reduction of iconic elemental shapes and forms to make non-literal representations of experiences and events both past and present.