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Almost weekly updates on upcoming and recent exhibitions, commissions, writing, public speaking, media coverage, paper clay library additions, studio news are posted here (not on social media). latest update: 15 May 2025

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Exhibiting

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Don’t miss the Inaugural Farmer Street Studio Exhibition in mid 2025.

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updated: 07/05/2025
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Demonstrations, talks,  exhibitions, master classes! Meet other clay lovers at the 17th Australian Ceramics Triennale in Walyalup (Fremantle), WA, 2-5 October 2025. https://www.australianceramicstriennale.com.au 

Look for my demonstrations, talk, work in the Fremantle Arts Centre and Old Customs House exhibtions.

See their website for current call out for event volunteers plus details of benefits 
​Updated 7 May 2025
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Selected and won  Highly Commended Award at the Ceramic Arts Queensland’s Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence 2025, Metcalfe Gallery, Brisbane Institute of Art, 41 Grafton Street, Windsor, Queensland, Australia
Read more here and  here Instagram.com/ceramicartsqld
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updated: 8 April 2025

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Humbled to win first prize at 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.​ use link to see work. Now in the Suter Art Gallery permanent collection. 
updated:  7 May 2025
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.In February 2023  exhibited in  भू – त$: Elements of Earth, at the huge Emami Art gallery, in Kolkata, India, more ... Work (above) is now sold.



Recent Commissions and projects

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2024 Artist in resident working with students to create six 1.8m high garden ceramic sculptures, corresponding to the Whadjuk Nyoongar seasons. Big thanks to teaching, administration and ground staff who installed the first one on 15 October 2024 (above)  More…
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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
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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.  ​​

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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

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Just published: short first article on mapping the clay community in Pyre, the journal of the Ceramic Art Association of W. Australia.  Plus confirmation my article has been accepted for the peer reviewed irst edition of The IAC Members' Book "Shaping Global Masterpieces.
​Plus a short paragraph and image for a forthcoming article on the 2025 Wedge conference demonstrators in the Journal of Australian Ceramics 
updated 15 May 2025
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Recent  4 page journal article I wrote for Mirn, the Indian Ceramic Art Foundation's journal. 
(1 March 2024) 
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Read speech "What don't they teach you in Art School? for the  Inglewood Arts Hub . here in my Nov 2023 Blog.

Media

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Dr Dorothy Erickson included my works alongside 50 leading WA designers and makers (1970 to now) in Inspired by Light and Land. The 700 page hardcover book is published and available from the Western Australian Museum, as well as the Art Gallery of WA bookstore  more. 
December 2023
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Media stories on my first prize Forsyth Barr Contemporary Ceramics Award win, in  ​Scoop Publishing (retrieved 29/9/24), Uniquely Nelson (retrieved 30/9/24), Stuff (retrieved 1/10/24), Big Idea NZ (retrieved 7/10/24) and Pyre. (Updated 7 May 2025)
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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. 

Public Speaking

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Exhausted!  Gave 11 workshops across WA, Qld, New Zealand and the US between  Sept 2024 - Jan 2025, with a broken collarbone.  ​(updated:  16 January 2025)
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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 
(updated 2 June 2024)
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I gave a video artist talk to members of the Papermakers of Victoria, Primrose Paper Arts of NSW and Papermakers & Artists of Queensland members ​on 20 February 2024.  This included my compressed paper sculptures.  
update: 20/2/24

Paper Clay Resources

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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,  concise education videos, workshops, and events for this radical emerging medium. Continuously updated over the last two decades.  Here..
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I’ve listed all paper clay text books (below the 40+ ceramic journal articles) at https://www.grahamhay.com.au/articles.html ​(update: 13 June 2024)
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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

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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...

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.

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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. 

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Cheers, Graham
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.

​​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


Studio: Farmer Street Studio, North Perth, AUS                  
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Unauthorised reproduction is prohibited by law.​
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Website last update:: 
15 May 2025
(c) All images Graham Hay, and the cited photographers and artists.
  • index
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    • articles >
      • miller1994
      • Fowler2006
      • Ellery1995
      • campbell1997
      • haydennis2006
      • ellery1994
      • farrow1987
      • gartside1993
      • gartside1994
      • gault2004cap.html
      • gault1994cap
      • gault1993icadr
      • gault1992cm
      • harrison1998
      • hay2012dipsticking
      • hay2007pcrevolution
      • hay2007whyburn
      • hay2006update
      • hay2005pyre
      • hay1996more
      • juvonen1997
      • 2006DilekOzdemir
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