All the very latest news and upcoming events.
Oops!!! My bad! Apologies to those who tried to enrol and couldn't due to my error (link below will work).
The revolution continues! Join my Perth paper clay workshop. It'll be a fun, hands-on, information packed day for you on Sunday 28 January 2024. Early in 2023 I gave this in India, Broken Hill and Tasmania, while in 2022 I was invited to demonstrate and giving master classes at the national ceramics conference last year in Alice Springs. If quick, there are a few discount tickets. |
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Online paper clay doctor season
Watch my Clay Doctor: paper clay question season at the 2023 Ceramics Congress, plus my 2 lessons from the 2022 Congress. It'll be shortly up here. A small fee you get this and dozens of high quality demonstrations and discussions by the very best global ceramic educators. |
What don't they teach you in Art School? A copy of a IAH speech I gave in October '23 has just gone up on my blog.. Go to "Writing' here then across to the blog.
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I'm grateful to Dr Dorothy Erickson for including my works and 50 others in Inspired by Light and Land. her book on designers and makers in WA 1970 to the 21st Century, published by the WA Museum. The 700 page hardcover book is available from the State Art Gallery of WA bookstore from 2 November 2023. Continues on from her previous book covering 1829-1969. more.
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Along with Mary Lou Pittard, Graham was invited and gave two, one day workshops for the Tasmanian Ceramics Association's annual Maude's Mud Muster at Ratho Farm, 9-10 September 2023.
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.In February 2023 I was the sole foreign artist invited to exhibit in भू – त$: Elements of Earth, at the amazing new Emami Art gallery, in Kolkata, India, more ... The work (above) is now sold.
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I was invited to give 5 day super charged Masterclass at Aorang Studio, Kolkata, India in February 2023. Since then workshops have been given in Yokine (WA) and Broken Hill (NSW). A list of forthcoming and past workshops, talks, symposium and conference presents is here...
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Kaya!
The Australian Ceramics Triennale is accepting Expressions of Interest (demonstration/ talk/panel/?)! Got an exhibtion idea? We hope to see and hear you in Walyalup (Fremantle), WA - host city for the 17th Australian Ceramic Triennale in 2025 https://www.australianceramicstriennale.com.au |
Pre Covid I was invited to write an article for the US Studio Potter journal and ended up writing about ways to combine metal and paper clay. I finally have time in 2023 to studio test my theories. A copy of the article is here.
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A private commission to make a porcelain loving memory plaque is coming to a close in mid July 2023. Commissions are alway interesting, pushing me to make things I don't normally make, in this case roses and forget me not flowers.
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The Artists led Inglewood Arts Hub offer a number of 6 month long AIR in 2024. A free residency including opportunities to generate income. More at https://www.inglewoodartshub.org/
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How do you make a perpetual living sculpture and then keep it alive? Drive down to Northcliffe to see it or read about how I made it here
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Hack a 3D printer? A decade ago I used a child's gumboot, garden reticulation pipes, electronics shop bits'n'bobs, wall plugs, ceramic tiling spacers, medical IV needles and plumber's tape to convert a kitset 3D printer from printing in plastic to paper clay. Read about the journey I undertook as an Artist in Resident at Perth TAFE, with a detour via Italy for ideas, here.
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Why would anyone hand make and kiln fire over 6,000 porcelain flutes, fly the half tonne of ceramics to Italy, and then freely giving them away to Venice Biennale audiences to drink Prosecco? Read why here.
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Daily updates are posted here, not always on social media. Upcoming projects, exhibitions, workshops, articles
and books are often only relevant to local audiences. Join email list for updates.
and books are often only relevant to local audiences. Join email list for updates.
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In early 2023 Graham Hay and the four other artists in Robertson Park Artists' Studio (2000-2023), moved to a new studio space in North Perth, renaming themselves... Read more...
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The paper clay revolution
EVERYTHING you would want to know about paper clay. A free online archive of copies of over 40 journal articles, links to all the international leaders, makers, researchers, best education videos, workshops and events for this radical emerging medium. Continuously build and added to by Graham Hay for the last two decades. Here.. |
A Minderoo Foundation Art Grant residency in the Pilbara in 2021 stimulated the development of lower environment impact artwork and deeper thinking about artist led collective strategies to amplify the international influence of WA Artists.
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Artist in Resident Graham Hay had a very successful string of creative disasters during his 11 day artist in resident at Perth College. Why this emphasis on creative disasters? Follow links there to a later happy ending.
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Learn with me.
Since 1998 my studio classes cater to both beginners, intermediate, and experienced students. Through very small class sizes and personalised instruction, I ensure each student receives individual attention. Not surprising they each make very unique work. Classes run continiously (ie no terms) on Wednesday afternoons or evenings, Friday morning, and Saturday afternoons. More... |
The first of two interviews I gave with author and artist Kamila Waleszkiewicz, just went up on the Inglewood Arts Hub's blog here on 16 July 2023.
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Confused? Over October 2023 I've been cutting into glass and playing with the "phenomenon in the psychology of perception" of the "Venus Effect" for a collaborative work with a photograph by Jillian Ciemitis as part of the Inglewood Arts Hub group of artists. More: exploringyourmind.com/the-venus-effect-a-fascinating-optical-illusion/
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Above: random ordering projects, exhibitions, writing, teaching, collaborations (a few documented on website).
Bio
Artist Graham Hay has participated in 174 exhibitions across sixteen countries, including seven biennales in Australia, Holland, Argentina, Romania, and Venice, Italy (2017). A recipient of 20 grants and awards, his artwork is in public collections in eight countries. Hay has written articles for art publications in nine countries, and he 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 led paper clay workshops across 14 countries, leading paper clay symposiums or conferences in Hungary, the US and Norway. He frequently writes on paper clay, art and technology, with over 40 articles published across seven 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, engineers and scientists, collaborating on journal articles, hacking 3D printers and incorporating living fungi in outdoor paper sculptures. See Projects and Writing (under CV) on this website.
Themes in his work include the complex relationship between the individual and collective, individual 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 174 exhibitions across sixteen countries, including seven biennales in Australia, Holland, Argentina, Romania, and Venice, Italy (2017). A recipient of 20 grants and awards, his artwork is in public collections in eight countries. Hay has written articles for art publications in nine countries, and he 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 led paper clay workshops across 14 countries, leading paper clay symposiums or conferences in Hungary, the US and Norway. He frequently writes on paper clay, art and technology, with over 40 articles published across seven 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, engineers and scientists, collaborating on journal articles, hacking 3D printers and incorporating living fungi in outdoor paper sculptures. See Projects and Writing (under CV) on this website.
Themes in his work include the complex relationship between the individual and collective, individual 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.
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. All the very best on your own creative journey in the arts. 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
