Shaun Hayes
Iconic, 2021
Glazed Midfire ceramic
37 x 15 x 15 cm
SOLD
Shaun Hayes
Canned, 2021
Glazed Midfire ceramic, Edition 1/5
47 x 22 x 22 cm
SOLD
Shaun Hayes
Quit While Your Ahead, 2021
Glazed Midfire ceramic
53 x 19 x 19 cm
Shaun Hayes
Remember to Flush, 2021
Glazed Midfire ceramic
32 x 10 x 10 cm
SOLD
Shaun Hayes
Stay Hydrated, 2021
Glazed Midfire ceramic
56 x 36 x 36 cm
Shaun Hayes
Take Me Out, 2021
Glazed Midfire ceramic
56 x 36 x 36 cm
Shaun Hayes
Youre So Vain, 2021
Glazed Midfire ceramic
56 x 36 x 36 cm
Shaun Hayes: Artist Statement & Bio
The collection of plastic objects that inform Hayes’s sculptures are evocative of certain memories and feelings, capturing these ephemeral moments in time. Hayes contemplates the nature of today’s throwaway society and through the use of seemingly unimportant, everyday objects, humorously highlights the importance of being more conscious of the enduring impact waste has on the environment. Drawing on the aesthetics of traditional Chinese ceramics combined with contemporary objects, his adorned vessels echo a blending of past and present, old and new as well as illustrating the material similarities between plastic and ceramics.
Through methods of repetition, rearranging and joining of cast objects paired with a tonal colour palette, Hayes’s sculptures are reminiscent of fantastical and comical imagery whilst also highlighting the tensions of growing up in conversation with existing in a wasteful, thoughtless consumerist society.
Shaun Hayes is a ceramic artist who investigates the relationship between throwaway objects and their ability to instil a sense of reflection on memory, creating a deeply nostalgic and sometimes humorous representation of time and place.
Hayes received a Bachelor of Arts (Visual), with Honours majoring in Ceramics from the Australian National University School of Art in 2013. He was awarded an artist residency at Strathnairn Arts in July of 2014 and is still currently producing work there. His trips to Jingdezhen China in 2011 and 2013 continues to be an influence.
Shaun is represented by Stanley Street Gallery and was selected to represent them at the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks Sydney in September 2018.
Most recently Shaun was selected as a finalist in the 2020/2021 Woollahara Small Sculpture prize.
Shaun Hayes: CV November, 2023 Download
Education
Solo exhibitions
Two person exhibitions
Group exhibitions
Awards and achievements
Residencies & Workshops
Reviews and publicity
Artist Profile Magazine issue 41, Discovery, November 2017
BMA magazine Canberra, Artist Profile, November 2016
A. Harding, Aust View, Artist Profile, 25 February 2015
S. Pryor, Canberra’s Arts Diary, Canberra Times, 28 February 2015
S. Pryor, Capital Life: July 12, the Sydney Morning Herald, 9 July 2014
Web reviews
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6249459/three-sculptors-on-space-and-reality/ The Canberra Times review by Sasha Grishin, July 1st 2019
https://stephenrrandall.wordpress.com/tag/shaun-hayes/ ANCA Gallery review by Stephen Randall, March 1st, 2015
http://anca.net.au/portfolio/guilty-pleasures/ Guilty Pleasures, ANCA Gallery, 25th February- 15h March 2015
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6071384/capital-life-february-28/ The Canberra Times review by Sally Pryor, February 26th, 2015
https://www.musingaboutmud.com/2013/08/25/emerging-artist-shaun-hayes/ Musing About Mud by Carole Epp, August 25th 2013
E-Catalogue for Shaun Hayes - 'Trashed'