International Recognition for Artist-in-Residence: Sammy Hawker Awarded Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant supporting upcoming International residency and exhibition at Messums | ORG
The Corridor Project is delighted to acknowledge the recent awarding of the prestigious Ian Potter Cultural Trust Emerging Artist Grant to interdisciplinary artist Sammy Hawker. This significant opportunity will support Hawker’s upcoming international artist exchange with Messums | ORG and her first solo international exhibition Ghosts [& Monsters], opening at Messums West in October 2025.
Established by The Ian Potter Foundation in 1993, the Cultural Trust supports exceptional early-career Australian artists to undertake professional development opportunities abroad. This grant positions Hawker within a long tradition of cultural practitioners whose work speaks meaningfully to both regional and global contexts.
The forthcoming Messums exhibition forms part of The Corridor Project’s ongoing international exchange partnership with Messums | ORG, and exemplifies the organisation’s commitment to supporting research-led cultural dialogue across borders.
Through sustained engagement with site, process, and practice, Hawker’s work contributes to evolving artistic expression and critical discourse around landscape, temporality, and cultural stewardship.
Residency Dates
SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2025
Australian photographer Sammy Hawker will be the inaugural artist in residency in Lowestoft looking at land change and community in the area. She will explore near and long term changes to landscape and the environment, anthropocentric living and migration choices and the resonances of the past creating a publicaton and filmed to be stored in Lowestoft. Learn more about Messums | ORG initiative HERE
Exhibition Dates
11 OCT - NOV '25 - MESSUMS WEST
Sammy Hawker ‘Ghosts [& Monsters]’ GO HERE
11 OCT - NOV '25 - MESSUMS WEST
About Sammy
Sammy Hawker is an Australian-based visual artist working predominantly on Ngunawal / Ngunnawal / Ngambri Country [Canberra Region, ACT] and Walbunja Country [Southern Tablelands / South Coast region, NSW].
Through practices of reciprocity (facilitated acts of co-creation) Sammy's works explore the potential of interspecies dialogue, giving voice to the presences of more-than human worlds. These works reflect on how sentience and memory is inscribed within materials, sites and bodies.
Sammy’s multi-disciplinary practice embraces photography, printmaking, text, sculpture, sound and moving image. These works form a vast and ongoing archive, documenting sites and moments of exchange.
Hawker’s multi-disciplinary practice—situated at the intersection of photography, field recording, and place-responsive archival research—has developed substantially during her artist in residency placements at The Corridor Project between 2023 and 2025. Her evolving body of work interrogates the spectral presence of environmental change and human memory through analogue imaging, deep listening, and embodied site-based methodologies, photography, printmaking, text, sculpture, sound and moving image. These works form a vast and ongoing archive, documenting sites and moments of exchange.
“We are delighted that Sammy Hawker has been awarded the IPF grant to share her work and delve into the landscape. Working on the East Coast of England around Lowestoft in partnership with Messums East will provide opportunities for a local and international community to engage in research-led creativity and understanding along this ancient coastline”
“The Corridor Project extends its warmest congratulations to artist Sammy Hawker on the receipt of the Ian Potter Cultural Trust grant, an achievement that will enable the realisation of an international residency with Messums East and the presentation of her debut international solo exhibition at Messums West in October 2025. This recognition affirms the rigour and resonance of Sammy’s practice, and we look forward to observing the evolution of her artistic enquiry in this next pivotal chapter
”
Banner image: video still D#6 - 1268.9hz produced by Sammy Hawker in collaboration with artist Jack Zeising