WAITING FOR AMELIA

Shared parenting is worth fighting for, but Fathers often have the odds stacked against them when it comes to custody battles in the family court system. Through works on paper and canvas, Waiting for Amelia is a personal response to the trials of the courts... the judges, the lawyers, the waiting.

Michael Hawkins is a Melbourne-based New Zealand Artist who graduated from RMIT’s MFA program in 2013. Hawkins practice is drawing based and utilises screen printing, painting, performance and collaborative processes as a means of exploring how meaning can be generated from the visual interaction that takes place between sign and signage.