Weekly updates on exhibitions, commissions, writing, public speaking, media coverage, paper clay library additions.
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Most not posted on social media). latest update: 4 July 2025
Or subscribe to infrequent invitations / event news, studio newsletter here.
Exhibiting
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Recent Commissions and projects
28 May 2025 will see the formal opening of garden and sculptures. As an artist in resident I worked with students to create six 1.8m high garden ceramic sculptures, for the raised gardens depicting the Whadjuk Nyoongar seasons. Big thanks to teaching, administration and ground staff who installed the works (above) More…
updated: 27/05/2025 |
For a recent Sydney commission to create large and small sculptures I prepared a series of small works which continued themes from earlier work of mine they had liked. The client selected a few they liked, and I then scaled up one into a series, from which they ended up selecting two of the smaller and two of the larger works (one above).
A photo of one of the smaller works appeared in the Australian Journal of Ceramics Challenges today technical and aesthetic, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 61, No. 2, p.39 |
Online paper clay doctor season
Watch my Making, modifying and building with paper clay workshops with the Global Ceramic Congress here. A small fee you get this and dozens of other quality demonstrations by the best global ceramic educators. |
After a year of content design, filming has started for an online course. It’s based upon my experiences giving 300+ paper clay workshops and masterclasses over three decades across dozens of countries.
Signup for my newsletter (bottom of this page) for details. updated 4 May 2025 |
Writing
Just published: second article on mapping the clay community in Pyre, the journal of the Ceramic Art Association of W. Australia.
Plus article accepted for the peer reviewed International Academy of Ceramics Book "Shaping Global Masterpieces (forthcoming). Plus a short paragraph and image on the 2025 Wedge conference demonstrators in the Journal of Australian Ceramics (forthcoming). updated 01 July 2025 |
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Media
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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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Public Speaking
Exhausted! Finished 11 workshops across WA, Qld, New Zealand and the US between Sept 2024 - Jan 2025, while nursing a broken collarbone. (updated: 16 January 2025)
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Paper Clay Resources
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Added a dozen Masters Thesis from China to these 180+ webpages of paper clay information. Using Google Translate I'm adding to my knowledge, and hopefully later share with you. Special thanks to ChenXuan Gao, graduate ceramics student, Shenyang Polytechnic University for these.
updated 14 march 2024 |
Studio
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...
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. Hay has written over 30 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 links from Bio/CV.
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. Hay has written over 30 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 links from Bio/CV.
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 (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.
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 everywhere.
All the very best on your own creative journey in the arts.
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 everywhere.
All the very best on your own creative journey in the arts.
Cheers, Graham
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For an insider view into my background 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