Artist Profile – Glen Hayward
Glen Hayward’s work involves replicating, in wood, everyday items such as cardboard boxes, fire extinguishers, even polystyrene packing. Hayward’s technically astonishing recreations challenge the viewer to ask questions like: Is this art, or isn’t it? Does art genuinely transform the objects of the world, or merely imitate them? On an even deeper level, Hayward’s visual gags destabilize the categories of perception and cognition. His work demonstrates that it is simply not just a matter of initially seeing a cardboard box then, having ‘got the joke,’ thinking of it as art. Hayward’s pieces remind us that we see and think the world in a single movement, and thus the world we experience is already shaped by our preconceptions, even as it re-shapes them in turn.
Glen Hayward has work in the following collections:
- Mazda New Zealand Ltd, Hilton Hotel, Auckland
- Genevieve Becroft collection
- Judith Anderson collection
- Wallace Trust collection
- Collection of Jim & Mary Barr
Awards
- 2003 - Emerging Artist Award, Hilton Hotel, Auckland
- 2003 - Norsewear Art Award, (Merit, fine arts), Hastings Exhibition Centre, Hastings
- 2002 - The Goldwater art award, Merit award), Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island
Exhibitions
- 2006 'The Pinkhouse Primer' COCA
- 2005 'The Length of a Piece of String'
- 2004 'The Shroud of Grey Lynn'
- 2003 'Lounge - Records/books, window work' - Auckland City Art Gallery
- 2002 'Those Old Chestnuts' - Te Tuhi Gallery
- 2001 'Glen Hayward presents fruit on vans' - 101 Old Mill Rd
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Works by Glen Hayward (Page 2 of 2)
'Sex Pistols'
- Acrylic & carved wood
