Bill Hawkins (b. 1992 Naarm/Melbourne) completed a BFA in Drawing and Print Media at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2015 and completed an Honours year at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2018. Hawkins has exhibited at various galleries nationally including: West Space, Bus Projects, Hugo Michell Gallery, George Paton Gallery, Brett Whiteley Studios, Bundoorah Homestead and TCB. Hawkins is the recent major prize winner of the 2022 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship which includes a three-month residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris. In 2019 he was a VCA First Commissions recipient and was a resident in the VCA’s Drawing and Printmaking department. In 2018 he was a recipient of the Stuart Black Memorial Scholarship and was awarded the Lowensteins Arts Management Prize. His work has been acquired by the Macquarie Bank collection and various private collections. He is the founder/director of the Melbourne School of Contemporary Art.