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*Last 2024 update:: November 29
caution! 170+ pages of paper clay and compressed paper art, information, journal articles and video..
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*Last 2024 update:: November 29
caution! 170+ pages of paper clay and compressed paper art, information, journal articles and video..
2025 Albany paper clay workshop and masterclass now full
https://www.albanysummerschool.com.au/ (ask to join their waiting list, also look for Bunbury’s Spring Street Summer School possibility) (updated: 29 ZDecember 2024) |
Won the Forsyth Barr Contemporary Ceramics Award
Judges’ comments: “It has at its core a process of experimentation, and technically it is sophisticated in its realisation. We kept circling back to this work, it had a life force that was compelling.” Refinery ArtSpace, Nelson, NZ.(updated: 29 December 2024) |
Just finished a 9 workshop tour across Australia, New Zealand and the US Sept -Nov 2024.
(updated: 29 Hovember 2024) |
Selected for Ceramic Association of Western Australia Selective exhibition, EarlyWork Gallery, South Fremantle WA, 2-10 November 2024.
(updated: 20 October 2024) |
Invited to give opening speech for
Alba Cinquini, Anne-Maree Pelusey-Zentner and Leah van Lieshouts’ exhibition of paintings, ceramics and installations in ‘Unfinished Business’ Thursday 17 October 2024 at the Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus https://www.instagram.com/galleries.ecu/ |
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Missed the live Ceramic Congress’s Clay Camp workshop on paper clay figures? Do it anytime with the video and the materials list here.
updated: 24/6/24 |
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.In February 2023 I was invited to exhibit in भू – त$: Elements of Earth, at the huge Emami Art gallery, in Kolkata, India, more ... The work (above) is now sold.
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Invited to give a 5 day Masterclass at Aorang Studio, Kolkata, India. Other 2023 workshops include Yokine (WA) and Broken Hill (NSW). Forthcoming workshops, talks, symposium and conferences is here...
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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, books, theses, links to all the international leaders, makers, researchers, best education videos, workshops and events for this radical emerging medium. Continuously updated over the last two decades. Here.. |
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's up here. A small fee you get this and dozens of high quality demonstrations and discussions by the very best global ceramic makers and ceramic educators. |
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 my Mailchimp email list here for updates.
and books are often only relevant to local audiences. Join my Mailchimp email list here for updates.
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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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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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An Artist in Resident became a very successful string of creative disasters over 11 days at Perth College. Why this emphasis on creative disasters?
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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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On the 22 May 2024 I gave a short introduction to new studio techniques and artistic possibilities offered by paper clay and how it challenges traditional ceramic aesthetics for 75 members of the India Ceramic Art Foundation
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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 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. 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, choreographers, 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, 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. 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, choreographers, 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, 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. Similarly I hope my activities documented here will inspire you to contemplate being creative not just in the making of the art, but to be creative in how and where you present your work, how you collaborate with other artists and audiences everywhere.
Building and regularly updating this website (3-4 time a week 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.
All the very best on your own creative journey in the arts.
Cheers, Graham
Building and regularly updating this website (3-4 time a week 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.
All the very best on your own creative journey in the arts.
Cheers, Graham
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For an insider view into my personal journey to Australia and creative processes, watch this 5 minute interview with Know Your Nation, commissioned by the City of Vincent library and Local History's Art History: Oral History project.
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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
