Shaun Hayes
One Foot in Front of the Other, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
56 x 17 x 22 cm
AVAILABLE $2,200
Shaun Hayes
Bin Chicken, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
26 x 21 x 10 cm
SOLD
Shaun Hayes
Bubble Wrapped Babies, 2023
Midfire clay and glaze
Dimensions Variable, Photo Bryna Bamberry
AVAILABLE $2,750
Shaun Hayes
Bubble Wrapped Babies (1), 2023
Midfire clay and glaze
24 x 22 x 23 cm
AVAILABLE $1,950
Shaun Hayes
Bubble Wrapped Babies (2), 2023
Midfire clay and glaze
14 x 10 x 13 cm, Photo Bryna Bamberry
AVAILABLE $800
Shaun Hayes
Going Global, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
25 x 20 x 12 cm
AVAILABLE $1,400
Shaun Hayes
Don’t be a Baby, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
47 x 14 x 22 cm
AVAILABLE $2,100
Shaun Hayes
Pie O' My, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
28 x 16 x 10 cm
AVAILABLE $1,200
Shaun Hayes
The Grass is Always Greener, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
30 x 12 x 26 cm, Photo Bryna Bamberry
SOLD
Shaun Hayes
On the Grapevine, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
20 x 17 x 8 cm,
AVAILABLE $850
Shaun Hayes
My Sunshine, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
33 x 15 x 9 cm
AVAILABLE $1,200
Shaun Hayes
Bent out of Shape, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
29 x 18 x 9 cm
SOLD
Shaun Hayes
The Last Rodeo, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
25 x 14 x 12 cm
SOLD
Shaun Hayes
My Body is a Temple, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
34 x 12 x 16 cm
AVAILABLE $1,500
Shaun Hayes
Ain't no Mule, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
62 x 14 x 14 cm
SOLD
Shaun Hayes
King Kong, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
36 x 16 x 12 cm
AVAILABLE $1,500
Shaun Hayes
I Wish I May, I Wish I Might, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
31 x 16 x 6 cm
AVAILABLE $1,100
Shaun Hayes
Cookie Tower, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
25 x 14 x 12 cm
SOLD
Shaun Hayes
My Little Cupcake, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
36 x 12 x 10 cm
SOLD
Shaun Hayes
Two Many, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
36 x 10 x 17 cm
AVAILABLE $1,400
Shaun Hayes
Tremors, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
21 x 30 x 30 cm
AVAILABLE $2,200
Shaun Hayes
Paradise Lost, 2023
midfire clay, glaze and lustre
19 x 30 x 30 cm
SOLD
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 and represeted Stanley Street Gallery at the 2023 Melbourne Design Fair.
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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 using 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 ceramic vessels 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.
Interested in the feelings and memory these throwaway objects evoke, Hayes comically uses trash to build vessels of Western cultural heritage. Our garbage becoming a biographic assemblage of certain value systems. The unimportant plastic bottle, the takeaway container and toothpaste ironically put on a pedestal, vitrified, forever set in stone. Almost sarcastically, the works are critiques of how material value is manufactured. But in the environment, it does not matter, material hierarchy does not exist, and both refuse to break down and return to the earth.
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 is currently living and producing work in Ngario Country, (Captains Flat) NSW Australia.
Career highlights - Winner of the 2024 Muswellbrook Art prize (ceramics), 2023 - invited to exhibit in 'Temperature' an international ceramic art exchange exhibition in Jingdezhen China as part of the Taoxichuan Autumn Art Fair. 2022 finalist in the Waverley Small Sculpture Prize. Represented Stanley Street Gallery at the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks Sydney in September 2018 and 2023 as well as the 2023 Melbourne Design Fair. His trips to Jingdezhen China in 2011, 2013 and 2023.
Shaun Hayes: CV August, 2024 Download
Shaun Hayes is a ceramic artist whose work serves as both a critique and a celebration of material culture. It challenges us to reevaluate our relationship with objects and the environment, reminding us that ultimately material hierarchy holds no sway. In the end both plastics and ceramics refuse to break down and return to the earth, serving as enduring reminders of our disposable habits. Through repetition, rearrangement, and a tonal colour palette, my sculptures take on a fantastical and comical quality. However, beneath the surface lies a poignant commentary on the tensions of growing up in a society driven by consumption and excess. Micro plastics infiltrate our bodies and ecosystems, leaving an indelible mark on our health and environment.
Hayes received a Bachelor of Arts (Visual), with Honours majoring in Ceramics from the Australian National University School of Art in 2013. He is currently living and producing work in Ngario Country, (Captains Flat) NSW Australia. Most recently he was the winner of the 2024 Muswellbrook Art prize and in October 2023 he was selected for ‘Temperature’ - an international ceramic art exchange exhibition in Jingdezhen China as part of the Taoxichuan Autumn Art Fair.
Education
Solo exhibitions
Two person exhibitions
Group exhibitions
Awards and achievements
Residencies & Workshops
Collections
Work acquired by Woollahra Municipal Council, December 2021
Reviews and publicity
Art Guide Australia, September/ October issue 2023
Art Almanac, October issue 2021
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 | Shaun Hayes 'Single-Use'