David Hawkins | Artist

David Hawkins
  • Plastic Pollution 2 | "Hail, you who are highly favoured" (After Fra Angelico) | 53x43cm

‘Artists are special people and every person is a special kind of artist.’

Rowan Williams

David Hawkins CV

2023Ripon Cathedral | Holy Week solo exhibition | Facing the Elements | 3rd – 20th April 2023 | www.riponcathedral.org.uk/whats-on/
2023Craven Arts House, Skipton | Members Exhibition | Butterlies, Moths and Insects | 4th May - 27th May 2023 | www.cravenarts.co.uk
2022Craven Arts House, Skipton | Christmas Group Exhibition | 8 –11 December 2022 | www.cravenarts.co.uk
2021Lazarus | www.stgeorgescrypt.org.uk | A public art initiative with rough sleepers in Leeds City Centre. A co-creation project with Leeds artist, Pippa Hale | Ongoing
2021Parallax Art Fair | www.parallaxaf.com | Kensingnton Town Hall, London | 22-24 October 2021
2021Membership of Craven Arts | www.cravenarts.co.uk
2020Online Exhibition | 15 September - 31 December 2020
Room 5 | www.catholicartists.co.uk/90years
2020Commission4 Mission Group Exhibition | May 2020
Holy Trinity Sloane Square, London
Postponed due to Corvid19
2020Parallax Art Fair | 14 - 16 February 2020
Chelsea Old Town Hall | www.parallaxaf.com
2019Commission4mission group exhibition  | 29 October – 9 November 2019
Holy Trinity Sloane Square, London
2019Commission4mission group exhibition | 15 – 26 October 2019
All Hallows by the Tower, London
2019'Reconciliation' | 10 March - 13 April 2019
Commission4mission group exhibition | Coventry Cathedral
2019Parallax Art Fair | 22 - 24 February 2019
Chelsea Old Town Hall | www.parallaxaf.com
2018"Journey"
Commission4mission group exhibition | All Hallows by the Tower, London
2017'Visions'
Commission4mission group exhibition | St Stephen’s Walbroke, London
2014'EarthWaterFireAir'
Solo exhibition | Harold Wood, London Borough of Havering
2012'Fire'
Commission4mission group exhibition | Methodist Central Hall, London
2005'Mene Mene' Instigator in a collaborative project with Pippa Hale and Stuart Tarbuck of thirteen installations placed around Leeds city centre, several of which have been retained by the City Council. The installations were created for ‘Situation Leeds: Contemporary Artists and the Public Realm’. | View Mene Mene
2004'EarthWaterFireAir'
Commission to commemorate the opening of The St George’s Centre, Leeds city centre.
1998'Roots and Shoots'
Commission for a design for a stained glass window to commemorate the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of St George’s Church, Leeds city centre.
1996Leeds Affordable Art show
1985The Affordable Art show | Oxford | 16-21 February
1984The Affordable Art Show | Oxford | 18-23 February
1983Mural commission to commemorate the opening of a training centre in Bida, Niger State, Nigeria. A collaboration with Nigerian artist, Allah Santali Patita Gbadafu |
View Nigerian Installation
1982'Mirage'
Solo exhibition | Miango gallery, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
1975'Tree and Rock'
Solo exhibition | Bebington Library gallery, The Wirral, Merseyside.
1969'Kenya to Cape'
Solo Exhibition | Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa.
1967Group Exhibition | Stafford Town Centre

‘I do not want art for a few, anymore than education for a few, or freedom for a few.’

William Morris