Solo Exhibitions and Awards
2023 Clare Hawkes Fine Art Studio, Workshop 2, Abbey Farm, Abbotsbury, DT3 4JJ - permanent working and display space
2022 May: Open Studio, Abbotsbury, Dorset, showing works from Process Exhibition recently shown at Lighthouse Poole
2022 Selection of work on display and for sale at Helen Millard Gallery, Abbotsbury, Dorset
2021 May/June: Open Studio/Exhibition: Dorset Art Weeks
2019 June: Little Van Gogh Award, Europa Capital, London
2019 June: Shortlisted for Dorset Visual Arts Graduate Award
2019 May: Outstanding Student Contribution Award 2019 for SU Life Drawing Society
2018 November: ‘Ad Lib’: AUB (Arts University Bournemouth). Size and scale, issues of invisibility and injustice, #metoo campaign
2018 November: ‘Liberty’: AUB. Considering women warriors in allegorical and contemporary forms and exploring the space between abstract and figuration.
Group Exhibitions
2023 July 12th - 22nd - Colour and Culture : Collaboration with Mala Hassett, Dorchester based fine artist
2022 April 1st - 23rd Process : The Salon Collective Dorset Visual Arts, Lighthouse Poole, Main Gallery
2021 November 10th -23rd We're Back: The Salon Collective Dorset Visual Arts, The Malthouse Gallery, Town Mill, Lyme Regis
2021 September 18th - October 30th We're Back: The Salon Collective Dorset Visual Arts, Lighthouse Poole, Main Gallery
2021 March 15th - 27th Dorset Visual Arts Online Auction
2020 March 9th - 28th Dorset Visual Arts Salon Group: Exhibition at Furleigh Wine Estate, Bridport
2019 Sept Preselection round of RWA Open Exhibition, Bristol
2019 Sept 'Harvest' Purbeck New Wave Gallery, Swanage.
2019 July, 'FAQ': Free Range Art Week, New Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London.
2019 June, BA Hons Fine Art Graduation Show: AUB, Northlight Studios, Bournemouth.
2018 October, ‘Volume 2’: AUB
Fine Art students working together on the theme of alternatives to traditional narratives
2018 April, 'BEAF 2018': 28th April at Factory Studios, Boscombe 28th April – 7th May.
Associates of Factory Studios collaborating as part of the annual Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe
2018 March, 'Anachronism': Russell-Cotes Museum & Gallery, Bournemouth.
Contemporary responses to the museum's collection.
2018 February, 'BEAF BOX Pancake Giveaway':
Arts Bar, AUB. Fine Art collaboration with Creative Events Management advertising 'BEAF' 2018’ event.
2017 November, ‘Moments of Occasional Intimacy’: AUB, Bournemouth.
2017 February, ‘8 in 5’: Series of charcoal works on paper and layered OHP projection: ‘Surface Tension’.
2017 January, ‘A Painting Exhibition’: The Bandstand, Lower Gardens, Bournemouth.
Curated by Sian Hutchins (Graduate in Residence, AUB) exploring sound as a painting medium.
2016 June, ‘Weathered’: End of Year Show, Foundation Studies, Macclesfield College, Cheshire.
2015 July, ‘Northern Women’s Art Collective’:
Group based in and around Manchester, working collaboratively to gain exposure for their art. Bianco Café, Sale, Cheshire.
2016 February, ‘SoundTRACK’: Incubation Arts Centre, Macclesfield
Responses to music representing the soundtrack of the artists' lives.
Opening of a permanent exhibition site in memory of Ian Curtis (1956 – 1980) of Joy Division, who lived in Macclesfield.
2015 April ‘Northern Women’s Art Collective’: Collaborative inaugural exhibition at Nexus Art Café, Manchester.
Press Coverage. 'All female group strike back for artists who went unappreciated', Johnson, Z. in Manchester Weekly News, April 16th 2015, p3.
2015 June ‘Wilmslow Art Trail’:
local artists collaborated with local businesses and community venues to exhibit work and attract visitors to the town.
2014 September ‘Wilmslow Art Trail’: as above - exhibition at COOK, Water Lane, Wilmslow.
Contact: claremhawkes@gmail.com