BEVERLEY HAWKSLEY
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ARTIST STATEMENT
“Stories are important to me… the ones we are immediately aware of and the ones that come through excavation.”
“Making” has been part of my life as far back as I can remember. From the childhood cobbling of my own shoes because of a fascination with some boots that Patsy Cline wore on an album cover through my costume making and knitting days as a young mother, resourceful creativity has felt as necessary as breathing. I incorporated this obsession with creating into a career as a hairstylist all the while nurturing thoughts of some other world that seemed to be forever waiting in the wings for more of my attention. With grown children, I decided in my early forties, to explore it full time. Since then, with self-direction and curiosity, art has been my day job. It remains an obsession!
Primarily a figurative painter, I like to work large scale and would describe my figures as being in a “state” rather than a “location”. The work has changed over the years but there are recurring aspects that have been present since the beginning. The use of metal leaf both in halos and background texture satisfies my love of the historical religious works that haunt my heart. Costume interests me, both for what it exposes and what it covers up. I continue to explore this through the work combining eras, or indulging in fantasy. Attention to hairstyles and head gear are important to me as well. Certainly I recognize that the tools are in my hands, however, I do feel as though the figures in the work show up with their own agenda. I am committed to honouring that.
I work three dimensionally as well and have created sculpture and textile works that have a feel of ceremony. Robes, shawls and banners embellished with embroidery became meditative works for me… a chance to plug into an artform from “ago”. Making plaster and paper mache vessels gives me an opportunity to immerse myself in a shape that has held things of value since the beginning of time.
Through these years of exploring, I began to pay close attention to how I experience the creative process. The different stages of bringing an idea to fruition and the feelings that accompany those stages. The stages became predictable and I have learned to trust that process. Out of this observation came a performance that I titled “Subplot”. It is a mythical theatre piece with the characters depicting each aspect of the creative process. This work combined my varied efforts of writing, producing, performing, 3D installation and costume making. I feel this piece has more to come and I hope to continue to workshop it to see how it plays out.
From the outside, perhaps each approach seems to be a departure from the others, but to me they are all in keeping with my intention to uncover and support the timeless stories found within the human condition.”
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1954 in Oshawa, Ontario now lives/works in Muskoka, Ontario. “Things that needed to be made”, have always intrigued Beverley. The art of making is a way of life for her, from knitting, embroidery, textiles, paper-mache, and even cobbling. She continued to develop her skills in a variety of mediums including sculpture, poetry, performance art and film. Her work is primarily figurative multi-media on canvas, which can include a medley of paint, collage paper, charcoal and metal leaf, presenting a story left for the viewer to complete.
EXHIBITIONS |
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2017 | Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square |
2016 | Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square
Death Perceptions Installation, Wellington County Museum, Elora, ON If these Shoes Could Talk (Installation), Orillia Streets Alive, Orillia, ON Love and Marriage, Aurora Cultural Centre Death Perceptions Installation, Wellington County Museum |
2015 | Peep Show: Alone in a Crowded World, Huntsville, ON
Nathaniel Hughson Gallery, Hamilton, ON |
2014 | Back to Basics, Lift Ground Print Studio, Huntsville, ON |
2013 | Towne Square Gallery, Oakville, ON
Strata Gallery, Elora, ON Nathaniel Hughson Gallery, Hamilton, ON |
2012 | Witness, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, Ontario,
Muskoka Autumn Studio Tour, Huntsville, Ontario Tom Thomson 100 Exhibition, Huntsville, Ontario Witness – Nuit Blanche North, Huntsville, Ontario Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto Art Show at the Summit Centre, Huntsville, ON |
2011 | Comfort – a Mixed Media Exhibit at Propeller Gallery, Toronto
Imagining Winnie, Huntsville, ON Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto The Artist Project, Toronto |
2010 | Face It Head On: The Self Portrait Redefined, Workman Arts Building, Toronto
Habit Forming, Solo Exhibit – Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto Nuit Blanche Exhibit, Toronto Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto The Artist Project, Toronto, ON Propeller Gallery, solo exhibit, Toronto, ON The One I Love The Most, group exhibit, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON Night Lights, group exhibit, Chapel Gallery, Bracebridge, ON |
2009 | Lust, group exhibit, The Beverly Owens Project, Toronto, ON
Holiday Beauties, group exhibit, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON OCAD Whodunit, group exhibit, Toronto, ON The Aftershow, Propeller Centre For The Visual Arts, Toronto ON Six Degrees Of Muskoka, Bracebridge, ON No Cure For Curiosity, group exhibit, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition The Shutterbug Gallery, Huntsville, ON Huntsville Festival Of The Arts – Threshold, public art installation |
2008 | Moments Where The Stories Live, The Shutterbug Gallery, Huntsville, ON
The Nexus Gallery, Orono, ON, group exhibit Image Makers, group exhibit, Huntsville Festival Of The Arts, Huntsville, ON Blue Canoe Gallery, South River, ON Purely Water, group exhibit, Muskoka Gallery, Port Carling, ON |
2006 | Candor, solo exhibit, Six Shooter Gallery, Toronto
Subplot, Huntsville Festival Of The Arts. A multi-media piece I wrote and produced, depicting the “creative process”. It was presented in the forest and I created 3D works as well as costumes that set the walking path stage for the story to unfold. Afore Thereafter, Huntsville Framing Place and Gallery |
2005 | One Woman/Every Woman, solo exhibit, ACA Gallery, Toronto, ON
Graceful Return, solo exhibit, Deerhurst Resort – Eclipse Gallery, Huntsville, ON Envers Chapin Gallery, Toronto, ON |
2004 | States Of Being, solo painting exhibit and collaborative installation, Shifting Earth Gallery Place and Gallery |
2003 | Coop on Scollard, group exhibit, Toronto, ON
Euclid Studio, Toronto, ON |
2002 | Framing Place and Gallery, Huntsville, ON
Muskoka Autumn Tour |
2001 | Muskoka Autumn Studio Tour
Framing Place and Gallery, Huntsville, ON |
2000 | Muskoka Autumn Studio Tour
Hawksley Burns for Isadora, Book Launch-Exhibit, Lid Lounge, Toronto ON |
1999 | Muskoka Studio Tour
MAC Spring members Show, Bracebridge, ON Vessels, solo exhibit Chapel Gallery, Bracebridge, ON In Transition, solo exhibit Bird Hill Gallery, Bracebridge, ON |
1997 | MAC members show |
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