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Sue Hawker spent most of her working career as a journalist in the international media scene. However, she has always had a strong interest in art, and especially the beauty of glass which has become her passion.
Sue mainly works from her home studio overlooking the beautiful waters of the Bay Of Islands in New Zealand. It was a long journey to reach this tranquil setting, through the never-ending deadlines of hard news journalism in New Zealand, Australia and London, followed by the pressures of successfully running businesses, and rearing a child. Sue now concentrates solely on art, creating glass sculpture and ceramics, and continuing at North Tec's Kerikeri campus where she has completed four years' study. |
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"My art is a synthesis of personal feelings -- the joy experienced on my journey to rediscover, reclaim and celebrate the immense richness of being woman -- tempered by frustration at the slights women experience daily.
"In the Goddess series I used a vocabulary derived from ancient goddess archetypes with the narrative embodied in these contemporary expressions of earlier forms remaining relevant today. The aim is to reveal the diverse aspects of the feminine psyche, a psyche at once powerful, graceful and beautiful. "Glass is a mesmerising medium with its refractive, reflective and transparent qualities. I harness these qualities when designing and creating my forms. In fact, I create art with light itself". |