TICK ON A BRICK

An online exhibition of works recently returned from the touring exhibition, Tender Brick: The Material Epiphanies of Peter Hawkesby. All works are now available and can be viewed at the Gallery. Please contact Anna [email protected]

Tender Brick was developed by Objectspace and curated by Richard Fahey. The exhibition opened at Objectspace in November 2020 before travelling to Sarjeant Art Gallery Te Whare o Rehua, Whanganui and finally, CoCA Toi Moroki Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch.

Peter Hawkesby’s ceramic career dates to the 1970s. After working on Waiheke Island he travelled to the West Coast of the US and a period of intense productivity followed. In 1980 Hawkesby’s work was included in the prescient Denis Cohn Gallery exhibition Five by Five alongside that of Bronwynne Cornish, Denis O’Connor, John Parker and Warren Tippett. In 1984 Hawkesby left Aotearoa to live in Tokyo. Returning to Tāmaki Makaurau in the early 1990s, he spent two decades as proprietor of Alleluja Café in Karangahape Rd’s St Kevin’s Arcade.

Hawkesby returned to full-time ceramic making in 2015. Recent exhibitions include Scratch a Cenotaph (Anna Miles Gallery, 2018), MNVWZ ANTICKS (Anna Miles, 2019), Professor Tick & Company, with Madeleine Child, Cheryl Lucas and Richard Stratton (McLeavey Gallery, 2020) and Dirty Ceramics (Dowse Art Museum, 2019-20). Hawkesby now lives and works in Ōtepoti Dunedin. His work is represented in public and private collections including those of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, The Chartwell Collection at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Dowse Art Museum, MTG Hawkes Bay Tau Ahuriri and Te Papa Tongarewa.

All Photos: Samuel Hartnett (with exception of those taken at CoCA Toi Moroki)

Video of Tender Brick at CoCA Toi Moroki, Christchurch
Bob Harvey reviews Tender Brick, Metro Magazine, Feb 17 , 2021