[7][8] Hawkes has collaborated with the Pram factory and Circus Oz, and was the first administrator of the Women's Theatre Group in the 1970s.
[9] Hawkes' photographic work is broad in its scope, including the portrayal of artists, feminists, sportspeople, public figures and candid street-photographs.
The photographs are often exhibited as a series or multiples, and the subjects in the work are often invited to actively participate in the process.
[10] Hawke's first exhibited body of work, the 1976 photo essay Our Mums and Us, featured her female friends and their mothers, among them the writer Helen Garner.
[17] Hawkes' extensive career is considered an influential part of the Australian feminist art movement.