Alys Scott Hawkins

I am an artist who works with drawing, and a director of animated documentary films. Contact me at alysATalyshawkinsDOTcoDOTuk Sketchbook at instagram.com/alysscotthawkins

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Self-portrait series, exhibited in group drawing show, Elephant, at Paris College of Art, November 2017.  

“In connection with the new MA/MFA in Drawing at Paris College of Art starting Fall 2018, future faculty, invited artists and collaborators will participate in an exhibition of drawings made on ‘Elephant’ - an old (almost forgotten) paper size.”

Video tour here: http://bit.ly/2z5O8Xi

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This work is to be exhibited in group show FIND ME in Venice, at Spazio Kanz, part of the Biennale circuit, from 1st - 29th October 2017.

It originally developed from a commission by ‘a space’ and Nuffield Theatre, in response to writing by Matt Parvin, as part of the British Art Show Fringe.

https://www.vernicecontemporanea.it

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Solo show Pub Wall as part of K6 Gallery’s ROAM arts trail, at The Butcher’s Hook, Southampton, summer 2016.

Made in response to traditional pub decor, drawings & collage mix up local figures and landmarks with a celebration of the domestic rhythms of suburban life, personal recollections, and found artwork

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Installation views, Right Here: the City as Muse, group show, Showcase Gallery, Southampton, 2015.

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Some of the sketchbook drawings for my work in 'Right Here: The City as Muse' a group exhibition at Showcase gallery, Southampton.

I've been drawing on my bus journeys through the city for a few years now. I have sketchbooks full of drawings, and for this show I'm scaling some of them up to life size; alongside the work of three other artists whose work responds to the people and places of Southampton: Jilly Evans, Greg Gilbert & Greg Moss.

Exhibition open: 27th March – 9th May 2015

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Recent drawings from sketchbooks, and my 'Drawing Every Day' project.

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Storyboard drawings for director Katerina Athanasopoulou's film 'Rupture' a commission about smallpox in the Franco-Prussian war for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2015.

http://kineticat.co.uk/Film-Rupture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpEGNT_eVDw

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Just came across this generous review of my chapter in Jayne Pilling's book 'Animating the Unconscious' by Ben Mitchell in the online animation magazine Skwigly:

"the most worthwhile function a book of this type can provide is by elaborating on films the reader will feel compelled to hunt out for themselves as companion viewing. This is largely the case for the artists whose films are discussed, not least of which being Alys Hawkins, whose self-analysis of the ways her work explores attitudes toward body and mind from different perspectives and time periods makes for one of the book’s more endearing case studies. Hawkins’s candour in regard to the unstructured development of her work sheds particular light on the role of research and how it can directly expedite a film’s completion or confuse the direction of a story with too many ideas being at odds with one another."

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Love Story: a commission to make a short film about collaboration for the AHRC Creative Economy Showcase, London 2014.

http://www.creative-campus.org.uk/love-story-project.html

Watch here: vimeo.com/88692051

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A hand-drawn map of Bedford Place, Southampton, which represents all the businesses and also features memories and history of the area…

You can see more of these lovely archive photos at bedfordplacemap.tumblr.com

The map was launched at the 'Love Bedford Place' street festival in 2014, and is now on sale in shops and galleries, or online here http://bedfordplacemap.bigcartel.com

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'Dance', a documentation of a live drawing performance, shown in 'Playback<<' group show, at Peacock Arts, London, 2013.

More info at playbackprojects.tumblr.com/alys_scotthawkins

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Teeth, tongue, neck, spine, knees, toes, stretch, ache, warm, wet, stiff, smooth: a short and subjective tour of the body using drawing to explore inside and out. 

Screened at Parasol Unit's 'Animated Drawing' show, London, 2012.

Watch here: vimeo.com/41342807

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Eight year old Shirley escapes from her life one afternoon.

A film made from overtly digital drawings with an intentional pixelated line. A monochrome world of light and shadow, water and weather. A storm in a teacup.

An A-I-R scheme commission for Channel 4 Television's '3 Minute Wonder' slot.

Watch here: http://vimeo.com/103322392

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A woman chews over the end of a relationship: a film about sex, shame and spending too much time indoors.

Awards: Winner Tricky Women Synchro Award (€1500), Vienna 2003 Second Prize (€1500), Experimental Film, Unicaja Eurovideo, Malaga 2003

Watch here: vimeo.com/238771736

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A short, sharp, shock of a documentary detailing treatments for hysteria in Victorian Britain including clitoridectomy and genital massage. Not for the faint-hearted!

Awards: Best Film, Compass of Desire Film Festival, Bristol 2009

Watch here: vimeo.com/48365629

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Collage responding to the day's news about impending war in Libya, which I made as part of collaborative exhibition 'Relay' at Quay Arts, Isle of Wight, 2011.

http://www.rulesandregs.org/relay11.html

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Girl with mobile, from Bus Home series 2011-2012