This webpage is the October 7 2026 update
of my forthcoming and current exhibitions, commissions, projects,
writing, public speaking, media coverage, paper clay resources.
I have little time for social media posting,
Would you like an exhibition invitation, or advance notice, via my private email subscribe
or
our Farmer Street Studio annual newsletter/invite to exhibition/Open day? subscribe
(Both mailchimp)
of my forthcoming and current exhibitions, commissions, projects,
writing, public speaking, media coverage, paper clay resources.
I have little time for social media posting,
Would you like an exhibition invitation, or advance notice, via my private email subscribe
or
our Farmer Street Studio annual newsletter/invite to exhibition/Open day? subscribe
(Both mailchimp)
Forthcoming Open Studio
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It’s coming up fast!!
Follow us on FB and IG for details of our upcoming Open Studio in late October 2026,
or sign up for an email invite to the private function and preview before it opens here
(email with details will go out in mid October 2026)
Follow us on FB and IG for details of our upcoming Open Studio in late October 2026,
or sign up for an email invite to the private function and preview before it opens here
(email with details will go out in mid October 2026)
Online Paper Clay Master Class
Online Paper Clay Course
Two of my adult studio class students asked me if we could develop an online paper clay course.
Hundreds of hours writing content, filming and editing later, it’s done!
It’s based upon the 300+ paper clay workshops and masterclasses I’ve given in 14 countries.
Over 9 hours of quality content, broken down into 70 short sharp lessons,
covering both the many new studio innovations as well the variations or shortcuts to traditional ceramic techniques.
Full details on the course content for each lesson.
In July 2026 even more content was added with a live Q&A season, free for all past subscribers.
Enrol.
(update: 27 May 2026)
Two of my adult studio class students asked me if we could develop an online paper clay course.
Hundreds of hours writing content, filming and editing later, it’s done!
It’s based upon the 300+ paper clay workshops and masterclasses I’ve given in 14 countries.
Over 9 hours of quality content, broken down into 70 short sharp lessons,
covering both the many new studio innovations as well the variations or shortcuts to traditional ceramic techniques.
Full details on the course content for each lesson.
In July 2026 even more content was added with a live Q&A season, free for all past subscribers.
Enrol.
(update: 27 May 2026)
Support the Nyoongar Patrol/Outreach Services
Walk your talk (back up your words with real action). -
donate via the Nyoongar Outreach Services GoFunMe: https://gofund.me/511afa0e
I’ve watched them work for 20 years around our previous studio,
helping the homeless and keeping the young out of the criminal system.
Join me and tip a little in.
donate via the Nyoongar Outreach Services GoFunMe: https://gofund.me/511afa0e
I’ve watched them work for 20 years around our previous studio,
helping the homeless and keeping the young out of the criminal system.
Join me and tip a little in.
Scroll down for commissions, writing, public speaking, media coverage, paper clay updates…
Writing
Whiie not an academic, writing is 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 book is above.
updated 23 December 2025
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 book is above.
updated 23 December 2025
What happened in 2025?
Two ways to read what happened.
A short, general summary in our annual studio email (copy here).
A more detailed email to the subscribers of my artist email list (copy here).
After reading them, don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss out in the future.
Most of this information is not posted on social media.
Two ways to read what happened.
A short, general summary in our annual studio email (copy here).
A more detailed email to the subscribers of my artist email list (copy here).
After reading them, don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss out in the future.
Most of this information is not posted on social media.
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 nine countries and features in twenty two books. Admitted to the peak International Academy of Ceramics in 2019, Graham is based 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.
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.
THANK YOU
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
THANK YOU
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