The Creative
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The Creative

Since I was very young I noticed people around me had pictures drawn on their bodies. I noticed the trash collectors had tattoos on their forearms, legs.

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The Underbelly of Society
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The Underbelly of Society

It is 11:42 PM and I should be asleep. This one keeps coming back to me - wave after wave, feels like I'm drowning, pulling against the stream etc.

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Romance
Alexander Hayes Alexander Hayes

Romance

Soul deep, in our lives through lines etched round eyes, paths appear before us and we find our steps in unison as kindred. Through breath, hearing not listening, seeing not looking. A two-world feeling, surreal, mindful, as lovers we walk long walk, speak long speak, journey long journey.

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Sexuality
Alexander Hayes Alexander Hayes

Sexuality

I choose to live my life by one accord - Libre D’être. Free to be. Stand free. Free to be me.

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In Letting Shame Go
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In Letting Shame Go

Some say 'wrong' is not a word but until I find something to replace it with easily it will remain. A bit like saying anger is a useless and pointless emotion, where forgiveness quells the soul and then brings on the saint.

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Returning
Alexander Hayes Alexander Hayes

Returning

After about of severe depression brought on by a broken shoulder, twenty-four (2) Endone tablets, and as many bottles of wine I set out to reclaim my brain creative.

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Orange

On my trusty hip side drawing pad, I would often sketch small drawings to ‘keep my eye in’ as my late Father-in-Law David Gregson would remind me to do.

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Alto 711
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Alto 711

For a brief period of time I was afforded a reality which was exciting, rewarding, safe and happy as I house shared with my boss, rallying the VET sector to engage with the Internet and occasionally myself creating art work amongst it all.

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Father
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Father

It fills me with joy waking everyday knowing that it will always be the case, that the child that I lost and the four I have as being the most blessed of people I will ever have an enduring and loving relatedness with.

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Guildford Grammar
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Guildford Grammar

It is not often that ‘graffiti’ street artists meetup and showcase their ‘getting up’ skills with private schools boys, particularly in the context of an articulated pedagogically approved senior fine arts program.

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Aquatic Desire
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Aquatic Desire

The symbolic entrance to business establishments in the Margaret River region of Western Australia is often open for ripe parody.

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Invisible Cities
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Invisible Cities

This collaborative installation by artist Alexander Hayes, Casper Fairhall, Robert Muir and Paul Carstairs was based on the idea that a city comprises hidden histories, experiences and markers embedded within its form and personality, that point towards myriad possible directions for its future.

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Meekatharra Magic
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Meekatharra Magic

These works are derivative of a trip that I made out to Meekatharra as part of a mining | drilling | rigging gig. Using the drill core sample I combined this with shellac and gold leaf to create works which are emblematic of the experience of being out there on Country, where the landscape is peppered with abandoned mining leases like cancer drilling holes in a body.

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Tillbrook Street
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Tillbrook Street

My solo exhibition in 2003 at Gomboc Gallery brought to a close an epic journey in love, loss, and grief with the passing of my late Father-in-Law, David Gregson, and the divorce from his eldest Daughter, Dimity Gregson.

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Speakers Corner
Alexander Hayes Alexander Hayes

Speakers Corner

In 2003 I submitted a proposal to the McClelland Survey and Award along with collaborative Artist, Robert Muir who I was working with at the time with audiophonic and plundophonic works, installation and other arts related projects in the community.

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Glenn Valley
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Glenn Valley

Deep in the Glenn Valley was once a thriving winery and fruit farm. Through the years the toll of lack of water and hard country took the family business to ruin.

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Springforms
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Springforms

Across the wheatbelt of West Australia lies strewn through countless fields, along creek lines, paddocks, rocky outcrops and bushland literally millions of tonnes of discarded steel from farming practices.

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