Yvette Hawkins is a visual artist, arts project manager and travelling curator. 

Yvette makes tactile, engaging and textural sculptures and installations that explore suggestion and secrecy.  Her work is concerned with the physical acts of looking, reading and listening encouraging viewers to consciously be aware of their surroundings, controlling and manipulating the way things can be seen, read and heard.  

The work is driven by repetitive processes using paper as a sculptural medium which combines traditional craft techniques, such as folding, cutting, printing, stitching and constructing to explore the environments of both art and craft.  

She follows a socially engaged practice which often involves members of the public, who are encouraged to physically interact with the artwork at various stages of the making and presenting of work. She is interested in the notion of memory, the cultural psychologies of looking and the differences between socially conditioned learning patterns and biological ones.  This acts as a central theme throughout her practice.

Yvette is lead artist on Book Apothecary: The Travelling Museum of Artist Books.  Click here to find out more.