Bill Hawkins, Mud witch, 2023-34, Oil, canvas, glue and moulding paste on board, 28cm x 20cm

Bill Hawkins 2022 recipient of prestigious Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship to open his major solo presentation at NAP Contemporary next month, opening 2 August 6pm. Hawkins is currently enrolled in Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. ‘The Idiot’ features new paintings by the Melbourne born artist, who was featured in Art Collector magazine earlier this year.

In the artists words “Previously in my practice I was looking for a single framework to apply to my paintings. Now, I am consciously letting the different themes in my work exist in a chaotic scramble,” he says. “I try not to privilege one line of thought over the other and don’t hold onto frameworks too tightly. I think I am attracted to this because I like the idea of a pluralistic society and pluralistic thinking, especially about art.”