Closed
11.7 – 13.9
2024
Jamie Hawkesworth
The British Isles
45 Maddox Street, W1S 2PE

Huxley-Parlour are delighted to present 'The British Isles', the gallery’s first solo exhibition of British photographer Jamie Hawkesworth. The exhibition presents 12 large-scale works taken from the photographer’s seminal eponymous series. Photographed over a period of thirteen years, Hawkesworth’s series documents the landscape, architecture and inhabitants of the photographer’s home country. A celebration of both people and place, 'The British Isles' is imbued with Hawkesworth’s generous and dignifying eye.

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Featured Works
Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’

Jamie Hawkesworth

Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’, 2007-2020

C-type print
Signed, inscribed with title, numbered and dated on artist’s label
Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’

Jamie Hawkesworth

Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’, 2007-2020

C-type print
Signed, inscribed with title, numbered and dated on artist’s label
Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’

Jamie Hawkesworth

Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’, 2007-2020

C-type print
Signed, inscribed with title, numbered and dated on artist’s label
Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’

Jamie Hawkesworth

Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’, 2007-2020

C-type print
Signed, inscribed with title, numbered and dated on artist’s label
Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’

Jamie Hawkesworth

Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’, 2007-2020

C-type print
Signed, inscribed with title, numbered and dated on artist’s label
Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’

Jamie Hawkesworth

Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’, 2007-2020

C-type print
Signed, inscribed with title, numbered and dated on artist’s label
Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’

Jamie Hawkesworth

Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’, 2007-2020

C-type print
Signed, inscribed with title, numbered and dated on artist’s label
Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’

Jamie Hawkesworth

Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’, 2007-2020

C-type print
Signed, inscribed with title, numbered and dated on artist’s label
Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’

Jamie Hawkesworth

Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’, 2007-2020

C-type print
Signed, inscribed with title, numbered and dated on artist’s label
Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’

Jamie Hawkesworth

Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’, 2007-2020

C-type print
Signed, inscribed with title, numbered and dated on artist’s label
Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’

Jamie Hawkesworth

Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’, 2007-2020

C-type print
Signed, inscribed with title, numbered and dated on artist’s label
Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’

Jamie Hawkesworth

Untitled from the series, ‘The British Isles’, 2007-2020

C-type print
Signed, inscribed with title, numbered and dated on artist’s label

Biography

Jamie Hawkesworth is known for his poetic portrayals of the architecture and people of Britain. Preferring the slower, more tactile approach of analogue photography, Hawkesworth shoots exclusively on film and meticulously develops his own prints.

Hawkesworth surveys the nation’s residents with nuance and empathy, bringing a unique sense of mystery to his images – qualities which extend across his documentary and commercial fashion work. Hawkesworth’s lyrical visual language presents quotidian existence as a dreamworld, recasting his subjects as its inhabitants in a radically democratising way. 

Hawkesworth was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in 1987. Initially introduced to photography as part of his forensic science degree, he then switched to study the medium, graduating from the University of Lancashire in 2009 with a BA in Photography. Hawkesworth’s Preston Bus Station was published in 2017; On Keeping a Notebook in 2019; and The British Isles in 2021. In 2018 he received the Award for Editorial, Advertising and Fashion Photography from the Royal Photographic Society. He has worked on editorial campaigns, catalogues and commissions for Alexander McQueen, J.W. Anderson and Loewe, amongst many others. His documentary works have been exhibited in London, Amsterdam and New York. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and Huis Marseille, Amsterdam. Hawkesworth lives and works in London.