Rozanne Hawksley

Personal memorabilia belonging to artist Rozanne Hawksley, collected to accompany Rozanne Hawksley's artworks acquired by Wellcome Collection. Records include family photographs, letters, a scrapbook for trip to USA (made by Rozanne's son Matthew), postcards, and other personal collected items.

1960s-2020s

1 box

Acquired alongside a selection of Rozanne Hawksley's artworks, which can be found by searching "Rozanne Hawksley" on Wellcome Collection's catalogue.

Rozanne Hawksley (1931-2022) was an artist who creates mixed-media work with a focus on her own life experiences, including losing a baby as a result of thalidomide, her experiences as a child evacuee in WWII, losing her son to cancer, and her experiences as an in-patient following a mental breakdown. Her works use collected and found materials, using bones to represent ‘what is our armour and yet our fragility and breakability’. These intensely personal experiences are often woven into broader themes about suffering, pain, loss, grief in the context of war, religion, with a focus on Catholicism and ritual, medicine and the human condition. For further information: https://rozannehawksley.com/

Transferred to Wellcome.

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