REBECCA HAWKINS
celebrating human stories of strength & freedom
Stories, and our ability to tell them, to be moved by them, and to be inspired and act on them, are what make us human. Bronze is the ultimate material for telling these stories in all their guises; the good, the uplifting, the inspiring, the hopeful and the awful.
With a love of using lyrical symbolism, teamed with strong imagery, Rebecca uses sculpture to tell inspiring stories of strength through adversity which champion our innate need for freedom. Over the last 20 years she has steadily been growing a globally housed collection of sculptures and drawings that sit as comfortably in private collections and gardens, as they do in public spaces.
Public commissions have included The Gurkha, 2015, Folkestone town centre; for which she was shortlisted for the Marsh award for excellence in public sculpture. The Mother and Child 2019 which was commissioned to raise awareness for a stigmatised group of Vietnamese women and children called the Lai Dai Han, which is now sited permanently in St James’s Sq, London. 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 manages to make her sculptures come alive; they breathe feelings and emotion. Rebecca is able to do this because of her own deep commitment to fighting the injustices which are the causes behind her pieces, and because she is brilliant at telling human stories through bronze."
Rt Hon Jack Straw – Foreign Secretary 2001-2005; Home Secretary 1997-2001; Lord Chancellor 2007-2010.
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With an enjoyment of building a concept, teamed with an ability to create strong imagery, Rebecca creates sculptures and drawings for private collections and campaigns celebrating strength. Much of her work champions the strength and courage of women in situations where they are culturally or socially stigmatised.
Rebecca is especially interested in the notion of what it means to feel free, for women who are born into more challenging environments, and of the concept of Physis: "The determination to grow and survive", for women and girls across the world facing social and environmental hardship.
Water is a precious commodity that most of us take for granted a number of times a day. Throughout the world, hundreds of thousands of people live without such luxury, and the brunt of that burden lands on the shoulders of women and girls - literally.... For the last 16 years, I have been inspired by the strength, resilience and elegance of these women who fetch and carry water for their families and communities, often in the harshest of environments, and I am so excited to be creating a line of sculptures inspired by the incredible work of Frank Water.
Frank Water is a British charity that provides vital access to safe water for communities in rural India and Nepal
Keep updated by following Rebecca on Instagram: @rebeccahawkinssculpture