Kiku Hawkes is a Vancouver-based artist, photographer and instructor whose work treats photographic images as raw material for exploring transformational processes, tensions between worlds of interior and exterior, public and private, mythic and mundane. Her works integrate a variety of contemporary and historical alternative photographic processes, and are characterised by embellishments such as hand-colouring and embroidery.
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In addition to exhibitions, publications and public art installations. Hawkes has taught at a variety of venues, from universities to prisons; as well as producing award-winning images in editorial and commercial photography.