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Artist Statement:
I have painted and drawn from an early age and discovered the joy of fabric and stitching when aged 13. My art explorations continued throughout my life while living in the Australian Bush, working as a Registered Nurse, teacher, farmer, saw mill owner and activist for social justice.
Nursing taught me to feel compassion and understanding of the human condition – this guides the content of my work. Farming led me to growing my own flock of sheep, learning to shear, spin and dye using native plants from my own land. Patchwork and quilting followed on from this. Teaching forced me to educate myself about all forms and expressions of art and being a sawmill owner taught me persistence, a sensitivity to my environment, and sculpture from found and shaped timber and machinery. From my social justice involvement I learnt that something amazing can be created from hard work and love and that following my heart was where my strength was to be found.
My work is my primary focus of my life. Every day is devoted to photographing, designing, painting, stitching, dyeing, drawing, printing, learning, looking, playing and researching. Over time I have learnt many skills to help me express visually what I am trying to say in my art. My work speaks of personal experiences from my life, my friends and my travels. I ask myself “How can I say what I want with thread – what color, what technique, what texture, what emotion, what else?”
My inspiration comes from both the external world and my inner world: The Myall Creek Massacre in Australia, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the cycle of birth and death, women’s roles and issues, the search for justice, the environment both macro and micro and finally, the textures, the threads, the weaving, the unraveling, the mending of myself.
Artist’s Resume:
Education:
2007: Certificate of Achievement: Teacher of English to Speakers of Other
Languages (TESOL)
2006: Intel Master Trainer – Certificate of Completion
1999 – 2000: Graduate Diploma in Education
1999: Photography: An Introduction. RMIT, Melbourne. Certificate of Completion (Distance Education)
2001 – 2002: Bachelor Visual Arts (four units only) Open Learning, Curtin University. WA (Distance Education) Introduction to Sculpture, Ceramics, Painting, Jewelery Making, Textiles
1992 – 1999: Bachelor of Arts, New England University. Communication & Design (Distance Education)
1990 – 1993: Certificate of Attainment. Desktop Publishing, Touch Typing, Word Processing. TAFE
1983 – 1999: Fashion Retail Advanced Course. Inverell NSW TAFE College. Needlecraft, Commercial Advanced Certificate
1978 – 1980: General, Psychiatric Training plus Audiometry, Podiatry, Grief counseling
Professional Experience:
2000 – 2007: Elementary & High School teacher – Art, Computer, Design, Health.
1996 – 2003: Owner & operator cypress pine sawmill
1993 – 1996: Typesetter, photographer & writer for The Bingara Advocate, NSW
1988 – 1994: Farm owner & manager – cattle & sheep – wool used for natural dyeing & spinning
1985 – 1993: Community college teacher of sewing, using sergers, patchwork, quilting & computing.
1975 – 1985: Psychiatric, General & Community Nurse
Exhibitions
2012: "Artist as Quiltmaker XV Exhibition" May 13, 2012 - July 29, 2012. "Award of
Excellence" (one of two awarded) for "Cambodia: The Killing Fields".
2012: “Fiber in the Present Tense”. The Arsenal Center for the Arts March 3, 2012 - April 21,
2012.
2011: Online “The QCC Doily Project” (http://paulette-hayes.com/qcc---splothering-qcc.html)
2011: “Art of the Personal Altar” Group Exhibition Featherstone Center for the Arts
2011: “Moshup Trail”. Gayhead Gallery - Group Exhibition - Invitation
2011: Vineyard Haven Public Library – 2nd Annual Group Show – juried
2010: “Fall”. Group Exhibition Featherstone Center for the Arts
2010: “The Art of Quilts”. Group Exhibition Featherstone Center for the Arts – Invitation
2010: “The Art of Flowers”. Group Exhibition Featherstone Center for the Arts
2010: MV Agricultural Society Fair – Competition
2009: MV Agricultural Society Fair – Competition
2004: Solo Photo Exhibition: Victoria Gallery, Newtown, Sydney.
2003: Solo Photo Exhibition: Ceramic Break Sculpture Gallery
Representations:
2011: Julie Robinson Interiors, West Tisbury, MA
2011: Shephard Fine Art Space, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
Publications:
2012: "Fiber Art Now" Volume 1, Issue 3. pp 8-9. Coverage of Fiber in the Present Tense.
2011: Photo of Art Quilt “So Tell Me I Don’t Have Lyme” for article “In Our Blood” by Sam
Telford.
Martha’s Vineyard Arts & Ideas. Patrick Phillips (Pub)., June 2011. P42
2004: Cover photo for book Genocide and settler society: frontier violence and stolen
indigenous children in Australian history. Dirk Moses. Berghahn Books, 2004.
Awards:
2010: July MV Agricultural Society Fair
“Cambodia: The Killing Fields”
1st Place Wall Hanging Kathleen Sullivan Award for Originality in Needlework section
2009: MV Agricultural Society Fair “Madonna’s of Martha’s Vineyard”
1st Place Wall hanging Louis Watkins Award – The Most Original Quilt Pattern
“Sunset at West Tisbury” 2nd Place quilt
1994: RoyalAcademy ofArts Award for top student in design for two consecutive units.
Artist’s Biography:
Paulette Hayes was born and raised in the ‘bush’ in Australia and as a child loved to draw, paint and stitch . For most of her life she worked in various occupations while involving herself in the arts in any way possible with the limits of small town life.
She taught herself lead lighting, spinning, knitting, dyeing, photography, embroidery, fabric printing and computer skills to enhance her art. For many years she designed and stitched all the costumes for the Northwest Theatre Company, (NSW) as well as designing and creating the sets, tickets, promotional posters and photographic records. She studied design and introductory classes in ceramics, jewelry making, painting, photography and textiles via distance education but is mostly self-taught.
Paulette was an initiator, designer and builder of the Myall Creek Memorial, the first dedicated to an Aboriginal massacre in Australia. In 2007 the memorial was included in the National Heritage listing and has become an example to all other reconciliation projects in Australia.
In 2007 she moved permanently to the United States where she lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband Nick and devotes all her time to creating her art and developing ideas during the long winters.
I have painted and drawn from an early age and discovered the joy of fabric and stitching when aged 13. My art explorations continued throughout my life while living in the Australian Bush, working as a Registered Nurse, teacher, farmer, saw mill owner and activist for social justice.
Nursing taught me to feel compassion and understanding of the human condition – this guides the content of my work. Farming led me to growing my own flock of sheep, learning to shear, spin and dye using native plants from my own land. Patchwork and quilting followed on from this. Teaching forced me to educate myself about all forms and expressions of art and being a sawmill owner taught me persistence, a sensitivity to my environment, and sculpture from found and shaped timber and machinery. From my social justice involvement I learnt that something amazing can be created from hard work and love and that following my heart was where my strength was to be found.
My work is my primary focus of my life. Every day is devoted to photographing, designing, painting, stitching, dyeing, drawing, printing, learning, looking, playing and researching. Over time I have learnt many skills to help me express visually what I am trying to say in my art. My work speaks of personal experiences from my life, my friends and my travels. I ask myself “How can I say what I want with thread – what color, what technique, what texture, what emotion, what else?”
My inspiration comes from both the external world and my inner world: The Myall Creek Massacre in Australia, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the cycle of birth and death, women’s roles and issues, the search for justice, the environment both macro and micro and finally, the textures, the threads, the weaving, the unraveling, the mending of myself.
Artist’s Resume:
Education:
2007: Certificate of Achievement: Teacher of English to Speakers of Other
Languages (TESOL)
2006: Intel Master Trainer – Certificate of Completion
1999 – 2000: Graduate Diploma in Education
1999: Photography: An Introduction. RMIT, Melbourne. Certificate of Completion (Distance Education)
2001 – 2002: Bachelor Visual Arts (four units only) Open Learning, Curtin University. WA (Distance Education) Introduction to Sculpture, Ceramics, Painting, Jewelery Making, Textiles
1992 – 1999: Bachelor of Arts, New England University. Communication & Design (Distance Education)
1990 – 1993: Certificate of Attainment. Desktop Publishing, Touch Typing, Word Processing. TAFE
1983 – 1999: Fashion Retail Advanced Course. Inverell NSW TAFE College. Needlecraft, Commercial Advanced Certificate
1978 – 1980: General, Psychiatric Training plus Audiometry, Podiatry, Grief counseling
Professional Experience:
2000 – 2007: Elementary & High School teacher – Art, Computer, Design, Health.
1996 – 2003: Owner & operator cypress pine sawmill
1993 – 1996: Typesetter, photographer & writer for The Bingara Advocate, NSW
1988 – 1994: Farm owner & manager – cattle & sheep – wool used for natural dyeing & spinning
1985 – 1993: Community college teacher of sewing, using sergers, patchwork, quilting & computing.
1975 – 1985: Psychiatric, General & Community Nurse
Exhibitions
2012: "Artist as Quiltmaker XV Exhibition" May 13, 2012 - July 29, 2012. "Award of
Excellence" (one of two awarded) for "Cambodia: The Killing Fields".
2012: “Fiber in the Present Tense”. The Arsenal Center for the Arts March 3, 2012 - April 21,
2012.
2011: Online “The QCC Doily Project” (http://paulette-hayes.com/qcc---splothering-qcc.html)
2011: “Art of the Personal Altar” Group Exhibition Featherstone Center for the Arts
2011: “Moshup Trail”. Gayhead Gallery - Group Exhibition - Invitation
2011: Vineyard Haven Public Library – 2nd Annual Group Show – juried
2010: “Fall”. Group Exhibition Featherstone Center for the Arts
2010: “The Art of Quilts”. Group Exhibition Featherstone Center for the Arts – Invitation
2010: “The Art of Flowers”. Group Exhibition Featherstone Center for the Arts
2010: MV Agricultural Society Fair – Competition
2009: MV Agricultural Society Fair – Competition
2004: Solo Photo Exhibition: Victoria Gallery, Newtown, Sydney.
2003: Solo Photo Exhibition: Ceramic Break Sculpture Gallery
Representations:
2011: Julie Robinson Interiors, West Tisbury, MA
2011: Shephard Fine Art Space, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
Publications:
2012: "Fiber Art Now" Volume 1, Issue 3. pp 8-9. Coverage of Fiber in the Present Tense.
2011: Photo of Art Quilt “So Tell Me I Don’t Have Lyme” for article “In Our Blood” by Sam
Telford.
Martha’s Vineyard Arts & Ideas. Patrick Phillips (Pub)., June 2011. P42
2004: Cover photo for book Genocide and settler society: frontier violence and stolen
indigenous children in Australian history. Dirk Moses. Berghahn Books, 2004.
Awards:
2010: July MV Agricultural Society Fair
“Cambodia: The Killing Fields”
1st Place Wall Hanging Kathleen Sullivan Award for Originality in Needlework section
2009: MV Agricultural Society Fair “Madonna’s of Martha’s Vineyard”
1st Place Wall hanging Louis Watkins Award – The Most Original Quilt Pattern
“Sunset at West Tisbury” 2nd Place quilt
1994: RoyalAcademy ofArts Award for top student in design for two consecutive units.
Artist’s Biography:
Paulette Hayes was born and raised in the ‘bush’ in Australia and as a child loved to draw, paint and stitch . For most of her life she worked in various occupations while involving herself in the arts in any way possible with the limits of small town life.
She taught herself lead lighting, spinning, knitting, dyeing, photography, embroidery, fabric printing and computer skills to enhance her art. For many years she designed and stitched all the costumes for the Northwest Theatre Company, (NSW) as well as designing and creating the sets, tickets, promotional posters and photographic records. She studied design and introductory classes in ceramics, jewelry making, painting, photography and textiles via distance education but is mostly self-taught.
Paulette was an initiator, designer and builder of the Myall Creek Memorial, the first dedicated to an Aboriginal massacre in Australia. In 2007 the memorial was included in the National Heritage listing and has become an example to all other reconciliation projects in Australia.
In 2007 she moved permanently to the United States where she lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband Nick and devotes all her time to creating her art and developing ideas during the long winters.