2002, 43 x 70 x 44 cm, Media: Stoneware, Firing Process: High-fire, Surface: Unglazed
Handmade Paperclay. Photo: Saulius Saladunas Collection: Panevezys Civic Art Gallery Panevezys, Lithuania Background: https://www.grahamhay.com.au/hay2002lithsymp.html
2002, 180 x 110 x 110 cm, Media: Earthenware / Terracotta, Mixed Media, Firing Process: Electric, Mid-range, Surface: Unglazed
Post studio / post firing assembly of ceramic sections at gallery, made from handmade paper clay. Photo: Victor France
2004, 44 x 46 x 22 cm , Media: Porcelain, Firing Process: High-fire, Surface: Unglazed
Photo: Graham Hay Made while co-leading 1st international paper clay symposium. Custom made Herend Porcelain paper clay. Collection: International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary Ceramic Technical article: https://www.grahamhay.com.au/hay2006update.html
2007, 36 x 35 x 10 cm , Media: Earthenware / Terracotta, Firing Process: Electric, Mid-range, Surface: Unglazed
Photo: Victor France Handmade paper clay. Collection: Cagdas Sanatlar Muzesi, Anadolu Universitesi, Turkey
2016, 7'2" high x 1'4" x 1'4" (2.2 x 0.4 x 0.4 m), Media: Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, High-fire, Surface: Unglazed
Southern ice porcelain, hand made into paper clay. First Prize (ceramics), 3rd Biennial of Contemporary Art, Argentina. Photo: Victor France. Background: https://www.grahamhay.com.au/2016biennialargentina.html
2010, 24 x 35 x 26 cm, Media: Mixed Media, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, High-fire, Surface: Unglazed
Moderfied Southern Ice paper clay porcelain, iron-chromium-aluminium wire Photo: Victor France Private collection: Gothenburg, Sweden. Exhibition within International Ceramics Symposium 2011, Frölunda Culture Centre, Gothenburg, SWEDEN https://www.grahamhay.com.au/2011SwedenSustainableCeramics.html
2014, 6' 7" x 6' 7" x 6' 7" (2 x 2 x 2 m), Media: Mixed Media, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, High-fire, Surface: Unglazed
Ceramic porcelain paper clay, paper (maps), bolts Photo: Graham Hay Performance: Dublin Biennial 2014, Ireland Ceramics Ireland article: Hay, G., Carlin, N., (2015) Translating ceramics: Neolithic to Digital, to Contemporary Social Object, Ceramics Ireland, 34 p44-46 ISSN: 13939513 Story: https://www.grahamhay.com.au/hay2015ireland.html
2017, 8' 2" x 8' 2" x 8' 2" (2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 m), Media: Mixed Media, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, High-fire, Surface: Unglazed
Ceramic Southern Ice porcelain customised paper clay, steel, nylon, rubber. Photo: VeniceDocumentationProject. Personal Structures exhibition, GAA Foundation/European Cultural Centre, during Venice Biennale, Italy Video: Process: https://youtu.be/JF7YypUw_XA Story: https://www.grahamhay.com.au/2017venicebiennale.html
2018, 2' x 2' x 2' (60 x 60 x 60 cm), Media: Mixed Media, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, High-fire, Surface: Glazed
Ceramic porcelain Southern Ice custom made paper clay, hi-temp. nichrome wire Photo: Victor France
2019, 1' 3" x 1' 4 " x 10" (38 x 40 x 26 cm), Media: Mixed Media, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, High-fire, Surface: Unglazed
Ceramic southern ice porcelain customised paper clay, nichrome and phone wire Photo: Victor France
Artist Statement
My work investigates and engages with the social foundations of Art. Rather than grand speculate on "what Art is", I initially research thousands of artists from within a critical ethnographic framework. This grew out of training in arts education, political economics, fine arts, and 25 years of independent, full time artistic practice. This is an ongoing examination of institutional dynamics, education systems, administrative burdens, social foundations of arts funding, international social rituals, and impact of new communication technology on the art studio.
My work is frequently created from multiple parts, predominately in ceramic porcelain and terracotta paper clay, or paper, and can be up to 3 m high and weigh several tonnes. Construction may be through soft, wet or dry paper clay joins, or post firing assembling prior or after shipping. Due to Perth’s (W. Australia) small population and geographic isolation, these are frequently shipped to exhibit in a dozen countries.
Bio
Born in New Zealand, ceramic artist Graham Hay is based in Western Australia. He has participated in over 160 exhibitions in a dozen countries, including biennales in Australia, Holland, Argentina, Romania, and Italy, This included a 500 kg vessel-based ceramic sculpture and performance in Personal Structures – no borders, a 2017 Venice Biennale event. Graham graduated from the Universities of Western Australia, Edith Cowan, and Curtin. While he works across different mediums, he is an internationally recognised as a pioneer in the paper clay sculpture movement. Having given over 300 artist talks, workshops, and demonstrations in a dozen countries, he was invited to co-lead the first international paper clay symposia in Hungary, the US and Norway, and to join the Académie Internationale de la Céramique in 2019. He is grounded in providing studio based community classes within the Robertson Park Artists’ Studio, Perth, Western Australia.