Steve Hawley made his first videos in the beginning of the 1980s and his work has been shown at video festivals and broadcast worldwide since then. Among these he has had shows of his videos on WGBH Boston and Channel 4 TV Britain and shown at the Kitchen, New York, and in A Proposition Is A Picture. He was awarded a German VideoArt prize in 1994 and in 1995 his experimental documentary on artificial languages (made with Tony Steyger) and commissioned by the Arts Council was broadcast on Channel 4 TV.
Recently his movies have become more narrative than before.