Ponch Hawkes and Jo Lloyd: Know My Name Artists in Conversation

Join MPRG’s Curator Dunja Rmandić in a conservation with Know My Name exhibiting artists Ponch Hawkes and Jo Lloyd talking about artistic practices, visibility, legacies and Australia’s cultural life.  

Ponch Hawkes is an Australian photographer whose work explores intergenerational relationships, queer identity and LGBTQI+ rights, the female body, masculinity and women at work, capturing key moments in Australia's cultural and social histories since the 1970s. Hawkes' photographs are often exhibited as a series or multiples, and the subjects in the work are often invited to actively participate in the process. Through this method, Hawkes pursues a sustained interest in the way individuals use their bodies and the way they relate to each other. Hawkes' extensive career is considered an influential part of the Australian feminist art movement. Our mums and us—featured in Know My Name—is a photographic series that documents a selection of Ponch Hawkes’ friends standing with their mothers. This series was originally shown at Brummels Gallery of Photography in Melbourne in 1976 and was Hawkes’s first exhibited body of work.  

Jo Lloyd is a Melbourne/ Naarm-based dance artist working with choreography as a social encounter. A dance graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts, her practice seeks to find a language that refuses the limits of history, form and aesthetic. She has presented and performed her work in galleries, museums and theatres both nationally and internationally including in Japan and New Zealand, and has produced commissions for NGA, The National 4, RISING Festival, Bundanon Museum of Art, NGA, ACCA, MCA and PICA. Lloyd choreographs the peculiarities of the ever-racing mind, which manifests in unconventional ways through the body. She forms choreographies out of distorted communications, diverse physical languages and interactions between the dancer and the viewer.

For National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, she created the film and live work Archive the Archive, focusing on the practice of Melbourne choreographer Phillipa Cullen (1950–1975), whose extraordinary contemporary dance practice cut short by her untimely death.

Image: still from Jo Lloyd's Archive the archive (2020) video work commissioned by National Gallery of Australia, currently on display. Photo: Peter Rosetzky.

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MPRG, Civic Reserve, Dunns Rd, Mornington, 3199, View Map