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Gregory Hayman

Cromer, Norfolk
Gregory Hayman has a hybrid practice that juggles looking and memory through the prism of gay and queer theory, he has exhibited widely in the UK and overseas.
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Hayman’s practice is underpinned by extensive research and he produces a range of 'epistemic objects' or 'research artworks'.  In other words, he makes artworks to investigate the subject of his study, linking practical outcomes in a virtuous circle.   Hayman's work is informed by his experience as a gay man and draws upon queer and LGBT+ contexts and sensibilities as well as other not visible disabilities.

Among his most recent research has been explorations of Picasso's Guernica, Velasquesz's Las Meninas, and a video project based on Goya's El Perro  - The Drowning or Submerged Dog.  

For the Picasso project, he examined how dishonour, deriving from feelings of disgust, shaped the reputation of a man whose life had been devoted to the study of art history.  The vehicle, Sir Anthony Blunt, was a famous art historian; Keeper of the Queen's Pictures; and one time Soviet spy.  Hayman's interest stemmed from direct involvement.  In his working life Hayman had to lie publicly about the existence of a memoir Blunt had secretly written before his death.  This experience sent Hayman on a journey to seek out the traces left by Blunt, in an attempt to create a portrait and greater understanding of him. For this enquiry, Hayman carried out interviews with colleagues and students of Blunt's; his biographer; and visited the British Library to consult the autobiographical manuscripts Blunt wrote.  

 

Qualifications and training

MA Fine Art: Distinction, NUA, Norwich 2015

BA Hons Fine Art: First Class, NUA, Norwich, UK

MA University of Cambridge

MA University of Sussex

BA University of Westminster

 

Hayman’s practice is underpinned by extensive research and he produces a range of 'epistemic objects' or 'research artworks'.  In other words, he makes artworks to investigate the subject of his study, linking practical outcomes in a virtuous circle. 

Work in Recent Exhibitions

2024

Cromer Artspace: Dying Matters.

2023

MOMA. Machynlleth. Summer Exhibition.

2021

Yare Gallery, Great Yarmouth:  Summer Exhibition (August)

The DYSPLA Digital Retrospective Exhibition as part of The Living Record Festival J(anuary - February)

2019

International Video Art Exhibition (4 months duration – Feb 2019) Taipei, Taiwan 

2018

International Video Art Exhibition (4 months duration – October 2018 – Feb 2019) Taipei, Taiwan 

Yu Hsiu Museum of Art, in Nantou,  Taiwan (November 2018)

Bohemian Like Me, Cambridge Art Space Gallery, Jan 2018

Thresholds: (The Not Just Collective) At The Tapestry, Liverpool, Feb, 2018

Dyspla International Moving Image Festival, Crypt Gallery, London, March 2018

This Was Hardcore, with Survive, Brooklyn, USA, March 2018

 

2017

Fountain17, Gladstone Museum, Stoke on Trent, Sept 2017

Menier Gallery, London Sept 2017

Stimulus, Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus, Athens, June 2017

  • Greenhouse Gallery, Berlin, May 2017
  • Fountain17, Hull City of Culture, April-May 2017
  • Fountain17, on tour at The Gladstone Museum, Stoke on Trent, Summer 2017
  • Sardines and Beer, 13A Gallery, Norwich. April 2017
  • Clerkenwell Design Week May 2017
  • Framing the Crisis, Vault Collective at System Gallery, Newcastle, May- June 2017
  • Double Yolk, Lime Street, Newcastle March 2017

Prizes and Competitions:

  • Shortlisted for the Bishop’s Art Prize, Norwich (2015)
  • Shortlisted for Signature Art Prize The People's Choice Award London (2015)
  • Shortlisted for the Bishop’s Art Prize, Norwich (2013)
  • Shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, London (2012)
  • Shortlisted for the Student Art Medal Prize, Glasgow (2012)

Solo exhibitions:

Link Gallery, University of Winchester September – October 2015

Pop-up exhibition, Aid & Abet, Cambridge (2013)

Redundant Ideologies, NUA, Norwich (2011)

West Acre Arts Centre, Norfolk (2009)

 

Group Exhibitions:

Transcribe/Translate: System Gallery, Newcastle, November 2016

Constellation, Norwich July 2016

Scaffold Gallery, Manchester June 2016

  • Kunstraum Walcheturm Zurich, “From the Intangible to the Tangible” November 2015
  • Studio 1.1 Gallery, (Curating & Exhibiting) London (August 2015)
  • MA Degree Show NUA, Norwich (September 2015)
  • Impact 9, The China Academy of Arts, Hangzhou in October 2015.
  • Unease (Curating & Exhibiting) Halesworth Gallery (July 2015)
  • Hidden, The Undercroft, Norwich, Norfolk (April 2014)
  • International Print Portfolio Project, Impact, Dundee, (2013)
  • Degree Show NUA, Norwich (2013)
  • Real, Yallops Gallery, Norwich (2013)
  • Hungate Medieval Art Museum, Norwich (2013)
  • The Jerwood Drawing Prize, MAC, Birmingham (Jan. 2013)
  • The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Bournemouth (2013)
  • The Jerwood Drawing Prize, The Jerwood Gallery, Hastings (Dec. 2012)
  • The Jerwood Drawing Prize, The Jerwood Space, London (2012)
  • British Art Medal Society, Glasgow School of Art Museum Gallery (2012)
  • Encounters, Sainsbury Centre for Contemporary Art, Norwich (2012)
  • Print Odyssey, Print to the People, Stew Gallery, Norwich (2012)
  • Hungate Medieval Art Museum, Norwich (2012)
  • Conglomeration, Stew Gallery, Norwich (2012)
  • And of This, St Margret’s, Norwich (2011)
  • Toss, NUA, Norwich (2011)
  • Coast Arts Festival, Norfolk (2011)
  • Hard Times Exhibition, Grey Friars Gallery, Kings Lynn, Norfolk (2011)
  • Worsted Festival, Worsted, Norfolk (2011)
  • Passais la Conception, Normandy, France (2011)
  • Cambridge Regional College (2008)
  • YMCA Central, London (2004)
  • Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland (1994)
  • Midlands Art Centre (MAC), Birmingham (1995)

Public Collections

  • The Castle Museum, Norwich
  • NUA Norwich University of the Arts
  • Rhodes University South Africa
  • University of Dundee
  • Osaka College of Art and Design Kyoto

Talks & Lectures

  • The Jerwood Space, London
  • NUA Norwich University of the Arts
  • The Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
  • University of Cambridge

Publications:

My Journey with Anthony Blunt – Self published artist/project book to compliment my MA submission. September 2015

If you Believe That  - (Ghost writer) for David Frost.  1986.

 

Citations and credits:

Bulletin of the Marx Memorial Library.  No 132 Autumn 2000 Page 11 Footnote 12. 

Picasso and the Politics of Visual Representation: War and Peace in the Era of the Cold War and Since (Liverpool University Press - Tate Liverpool Critical Forum)  In the Chapter by Lynda Morris.

It’s  a Don’s Life. Mary Beard.  2009

Hansard – The official record of debates in the House of Commons: HC Deb 12 July 1991 vol 194 cc1289-96  (Debate on The Community Charge).

 

 

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