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Hayley Ward
Education
1996 Graduate Diploma – Visual Arts (Painting) Monash University Gippsland Campus
1992 Bachelor of Arts (2-D Studies) University of New England, Northern Rivers, Lismore
Exhibitions
2010 Crossing New England (Armidale Art Gallery)
2009 Beneath the Surface (Armidale One Two Six, Armidale)
2008 Sensing the Landscape (Tamworth Regional Gallery)
2008 Off Beat (Andrea Bruno Gallery, Tamworth)
2007 In Retrospect (Gallery One Two Six, Armidale)
2006 My time, my place, my self (NERAM, Armidale)
2004 Degrees of Difference (Gallery One Two Six, Armidale)
2004 Encaustic Wax Paintings (Gallery Lane, Leura)
2003 Falls Art Fest (Wentworth Falls)
2000 Between Matter & Consciousness (L’Otel, Sydney)
2000 Mosman Art Prize (Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney)
2000 Grounded (PCL Exhibitionists, Sydney)
1998 Emotional States (Sweetforay Gallery, Katoomba)
1997 Journeys (Sweetforay Gallery, Katoomba)
1997 20/20 Vision (Sweetforay Gallery, Katoomba)
1996 Blue Mountains Art Prize (Wentworth Falls)
1994 Northcoast Art Festival (Epicentre, Byron Bay)
1993 A.I.M.S. Art Prize (City Hall, Lismore)
1992 Nexus (Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Lismore)
1992 Ex-Site (Queensland College of the Arts, Brisbane)
1991 Drawing to Conclusions (Gasworks Art Centre, Lismore)
1990 Blue Stocking (Northern Territory University, Darwin)
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores the subjective quality of memory when we interact with and experience the landscape. By using an intuitive process of mark making I build up layers of encaustic wax paint, I then scrape into the surface to reveal the underlying textures and colours of previous layers. In my work I am attempting to create an intuitive language that represents or visually expresses the innate or the instinctual. Encaustic wax paint has many appealing qualities: there is both a satisfying solidity to the paintings combined with a visual liquidity and transparency to the surface.
Encaustic or hot wax painting originated in ancient Greece. The technique was lost during the middle ages and only rediscovered in the eighteenth century. It was mainly used for wall or mural painting due to its resistance to moisture. Using molten wax combined with resins and pigment, opaque or translucent layers can be built up. A final heat treatment, or “burning in”, by passing a heat source over the surface, fuses and bonds the painting into a permanent form.
The paintings are encaustic hot wax paintings. The process is Molten wax combined with resins and pigment 'burning in' - a heat treatment by passing a heat source over the surface, fuses and bonds the painting into a permanent form.
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