Details
| First Name | Graham |
| Last Name | Hay |
| Nickname | graham-hay |
Social Media
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My Ceramics
| In the studio I like to do | Handbuilding, Sculpting, Slip casting |
| Clay body | Earthenware, Porcelain |
| Kiln Type | Electric Kiln |
About Me
| Introduction | A paper clay-folic since 1992, based in Perth, Western Australia. Full time in the studio. |
| What I Love about Ceramics | Making things. Setting new studio challenges for myself. Meeting wonderful clay people around the world, The joy of sharing my studio successes and failures with others and helping them along on their creative journey. |
| How I started with ceramics | Grew up on a farm in NZ playing in the creeks in summer and snow tobogganing on the hills in winter. The snow quickly turned into mud when the sun came out! Perhaps not surprisingly I naturally gravitated towards wet clay at school, collage and university. |
| What inspires me | Human and animal patterns (sociology), Plant forms. |
| What I'm working on at the moment | combining paper clay and metal (see my article for the US Studio Potter a few years ago: https://www.grahamhay.com.au/writing.html. Busy preparing work for two exhibitions, two demonstrations and artist talk at the 17th Australian Ceramics Triennale is in Walyalup (Fremantle), Western ASustralia, 2-5 October 2025. Dozens and dozens of demonstrations, talks, exhibitions, master classes from international and local experts and clay lovers. Details are being progressively going up on their website. |
| My Artist Statement | I have been working mostly in earthenware, terracotta and porcelain paper clay for over 30 years. Ihave a deep interest in the social organisation around ceramics, and the social foundations of the arts. Initially I was inspired by the movement of my peers within an art school and then later the art world. To articulate my personal perspective I borrowed aspects of architecture and banksia flowers(see 6 February 2008 blog entry). Many see similarities to marine life in my work.Through my practice as both a professional artist and freelance art educator, my social networks have grown, providing both professional opportunity and creative stimulation. I hope my ceramic paper clay work suggests the cycles, rigidities and dynamic nature of both our individual and collective activities, and myself within it. Increasingly over the last decade I have been inspired by theories of non-organisational social networks. |
| My CV |
Heading in this abridged CV are hot-links to more details: Graham Hay Education (4)
Exhibitions (182+)
The Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, USA
Latrobe Regional Gallery, Vic, AUS
Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews, Scotland
Commissions (18+)
Reviews/Books/Articles/Profiles (321+)
Public collections (14+)
Writing (35+)
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