REBECCA HAWKINS
celebrating human stories of strength & freedom

biography
What started as a quest to celebrate the strength of women in socially hard environments 20 years ago, has developed into a line of projects and work creating sculptures and drawings which tell stories for voiceless people in global locations. For the last 20 years Rebecca has been exploring how to celebrate freedom and our innate inner strength through visual storytelling. With an enjoyment of building imaginative concepts, teamed with an ability to create strong imagery, Rebecca creates sculptures and drawings for private collections and campaigns championing freedom, which weave together the inherent strengths of those who inspire them, while holding movement, beauty, and philanthropy at their core.
Rebecca trained at Central Saint Martins and City and Guilds of London Art School. Following this she spent a number of years doing apprenticeships with sculptors and engineering firms, learning how to mould, cast and weld. She works in clay, wax, Bronze, bronze resin, copper, and both mild and stainless steel.. Her drawings are rendered in charcoal, often including or drawn on gold leaf.
Public commissions have included The Gurkha, in Folkestone town centre; for which she was shortlisted for the Marsh award for excellence in public sculpture, and The Mother and Child which was commissioned to raise awareness for a stigmatised group of Vietnamese women and children called the Lai Dai Han. In June 2024, she finished a large touring memorial for Nadias Initiative to mark the 10 years since the Yazidi genocide, to view this project click here. Rebecca has recently finished working on a global memorial for surivivors of sexual violence in conflict, It was unveiled in The Hague in June 2025 and has been installed in Berlin for a 2 year period starting in September 2025. To view this project click here.
Rebecca does exhibit her work, but currently spends the majority of her time on bespoke story telling and awareness work for campaigns, charities, and private commissions.




