Hayley West b. 1971

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Performance Artist)
West's current research directly relates to a lived awareness of death and memorial, working with sculpture, video, performance and installation. She is currently a Masters by Research candidate with an Australian Post-Graduate Award (APA) scholarship, and a Green Burial and Death Café advocate.
Tags: death, dying, mortality, memory
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exhibited at
Death
Date
23 May 2015 - 5 July 2015
Place
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW
Description

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre presents: DEATH

Art about death typically brings to mind a certain kind of theatricality or a sombre tone, a classic still life with a skull and an extinguished candle, however the contemporary artists in this exhibition are talking about death in unexpected ways. Death has touched everyone and its effect is often life changing. It is a subject with many complexities. It is capable of stirring powerful emotions and actions, meanwhile by definition it is a simple scientific fact of life, “the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism”

This exhibition focuses on the ways in which we process and deal with death and mortality; practically, emotionally, physically and psychologically, rather than the moment or meaning of death. Death is an unromantic look at some of the many facets of death including a suicide pact in the suburbs of Perth, subverting a fear of death with faux enlightenment, talking to the dead through white noise and the vestigial in elation to the embodiment of memory, archive and grief.

Artists:
Declan Apuatimi, England Banggala, Carla Cescon, Ronnie Djanbardi, Simon Gende, Nora Holland, Richard Lewer, Thomas Munkanomi, Tony Pilakui, Samuel 'Marbuk’ Poantimului, Patrick Pound, Clementine Puruntatameri, Tracy Puruntatameri, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Helen Shelley, Laurens Tan, Hayley West

Type
Exhibition
Tags
death, Western Sydney, Group exhibtion
Website
http://www.casulapowerhouse.com/exhibitions/death.aspx
exhibited at
Magenta
Date
7 March 2015 - 13 April 2015
Place
WEST Project Space, 38 Railway Pde, Hazelbrook, The Blue Mountains NSW , Australia
Description

MAGENTA was an exhibition curated by Beata Geyer.

The grouping of artists with very diverse art practices and approaches to art production explores the notion of magenta, both as concept and as percept, in various imaginative contexts. Artist and curator Beata Geyer presents this exhibition as a multilayered installation where different artistic responses merge to create an exciting viewing experience. Magenta is contained not just within the pictorial or spatial spectrum but also within the conceptual multitude of perspectives and overlay of forms and dimensions. The interaction of colour between form, material, space and architecture unlocks the multitude of meanings attempting to define what magenta potentially is.

Artists: Louise Blyton, Sue Callanan, Adrian Clement, Fiona Davies, Beata Geyer, Shavaurn Hanson, Joel Lambeth, Tom Loveday, Ian Milliss, Tobias Richardson, Margaret Roberts, Hayley West, Caroline Wilde and Kayo Yokoyama.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
WEST, Blue Mountains, colour
Website
http://www.modernartprojects.org/unfolded-magenta-world-7-march-13-april-2015/

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