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Latest update: 11 November 2025.
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exhibitions, commissions, projects, writing, public speaking, media coverage, paper clay resources.
Latest update: 11 November 2025.
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New Ceramic Book Launched today.
One of 35 artists from 21 countries selected to share techniques, knowledge, mastery, and creative vision in the book Shaping Global Masterpieces. For museum and gallery professionals, ceramic artists and designers, collectors of contemporary ceramics, art schools, educators, and researchers, Bookstores, libraries, and cultural institution. See https://www.amazon.com/dp/2970196905 update: 8 October 2025 |
Online Paper Clay Course
A year ago two of my students asked me if we could develop an online paper clay master class. After hundreds of hours writing and organizing the course content, filming and editing, it’s nearly done! It’s based upon my experience of teaching and participant feedback for 300+ paper clay workshops and masterclasses over 30 years across a dozen cultures. Early bird discount enrollment until the end of November 2025. update: 11 November 2025 |
Exhibiting
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Current selected exhibition: Korea-Australia Invitational Ceramic Exhibition. Online: 1 Jul-31 Dec 2025. Curated by Prof. Lee, Boo Yun Hanyang and Seoul Cyber Universities, and Avi Amesbury (International Academy of Ceramics). updated: 01/07/2025
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Writing
Not an academic, I find writing a useful self reflective part on my studio practice.
My article “Anything new in paper clay? In the latest edition of the Journal of Australian Ceramics. Get your copy here: Just published: second article on mapping the clay community in latest edition of Pyre, the journal of the Ceramic Art Ass. of W. Australia. Details on my chapter in a forthcoming book coming soon… updated 1 August 2025 |
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Bio
Artist Graham Hay has participated in 180 exhibitions across sixteen countries, including seven biennales in Australia, Holland, Argentina, Romania, and Venice, Italy. A recipient of 20 grants and awards, his artwork is in public collections in eight countries and features in twenty two books. Admitted to the peak International Academy of Ceramics in 2019, Graham is based in the Farmer Street Studio, in Perth, Western Australia.
He is a graduate from the Western Australian, Edith Cowan, and Curtin universities (the latter two majoring in ceramics and sculpture). A paper clay pioneer, Graham has given over 300 paper clay workshops or talks across 14 countries, led paper clay symposiums or conferences in Hungary, the US and Norway, and written over 30 articles for art publications in nine countries,
While Graham is well known for his technical innovations and expertise in both paper clay and compressed paper sculpture, he also works across other materials, new technologies, video and performance. he has worked with fellow artists, academics, choreographers, engineers and scientists, collaborating on journal articles, hacking 3D printers and incorporating living fungi in outdoor paper sculptures.
Themes in his work include the complex relationship between the individual and collective, repetition and identity, ritual and social structures, and cultural systems. He has completed three quarters of a PhD on network patterns in the arts. Motifs include the use of multiples to create biomorphic shapes: spirals, coils, koru, cornucopia, circles, deconstructing binary, 2D thinking.
Artist Graham Hay has participated in 180 exhibitions across sixteen countries, including seven biennales in Australia, Holland, Argentina, Romania, and Venice, Italy. A recipient of 20 grants and awards, his artwork is in public collections in eight countries and features in twenty two books. Admitted to the peak International Academy of Ceramics in 2019, Graham is based in the Farmer Street Studio, in Perth, Western Australia.
He is a graduate from the Western Australian, Edith Cowan, and Curtin universities (the latter two majoring in ceramics and sculpture). A paper clay pioneer, Graham has given over 300 paper clay workshops or talks across 14 countries, led paper clay symposiums or conferences in Hungary, the US and Norway, and written over 30 articles for art publications in nine countries,
While Graham is well known for his technical innovations and expertise in both paper clay and compressed paper sculpture, he also works across other materials, new technologies, video and performance. he has worked with fellow artists, academics, choreographers, engineers and scientists, collaborating on journal articles, hacking 3D printers and incorporating living fungi in outdoor paper sculptures.
Themes in his work include the complex relationship between the individual and collective, repetition and identity, ritual and social structures, and cultural systems. He has completed three quarters of a PhD on network patterns in the arts. Motifs include the use of multiples to create biomorphic shapes: spirals, coils, koru, cornucopia, circles, deconstructing binary, 2D thinking.
Building and regularly updating this website over 20+ years is both a creative act as well as an important reflective part of my art practice. As I unpack the ideas that emerge during and after creating the artwork, I also document and speculate upon the social context within which the work was created as well as presented.
A big "thank you" to the many people who have kindly shared their experiences and information with me. I hope this website will in someway repay their kindness, by sharing with you what I have learnt from them.
Similarly I hope my activities documented here will inspire you to contemplate being creative not just in the buying and making of the art, but to be creative in how and where you present art, how you collaborate with other artists, collectors and audiences.
All the very best on your own creative journey.
Cheers, Graham
A big "thank you" to the many people who have kindly shared their experiences and information with me. I hope this website will in someway repay their kindness, by sharing with you what I have learnt from them.
Similarly I hope my activities documented here will inspire you to contemplate being creative not just in the buying and making of the art, but to be creative in how and where you present art, how you collaborate with other artists, collectors and audiences.
All the very best on your own creative journey.
Cheers, Graham
Header Image: Graham Hay, 201012, Ten by ten, Ceramic porcelain paperclay, 24 x 35 x 26 cm,
ICS 2011 Ceramic Art and Design for a sustainable Society Exhibition, Gothenburg Sweden.
Private collection, Sweden. Photo: Victor France
ICS 2011 Ceramic Art and Design for a sustainable Society Exhibition, Gothenburg Sweden.
Private collection, Sweden. Photo: Victor France