Weaving with Siri Hayes

Learn the basics of weaving using recycled and found materials.  Siri Hayes will take you through processes that have informed her recent artworks developed through the InPlace Commissions Program on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country at Garambi Baanj (Laughing Waters) Cultural Precinct.

About Siri Hayes:

Hayes has exhibited for over 20 years in solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia as well as in Japan, Canada, Finland, France and Poland. These include 'Photography: Real and Imagined,' 'Negotiating this World: Contemporary Australian Art,' 'Melbourne Now' and 'Stormy Weather: Contemporary Landscape Photography' all at the National Gallery of Victoria, 'Future Primitive' at Heide Museum of Modern Art, 'Boundary Line' at TarraWarra Museum of Art, and 'Contemporary Australian Portraiture' at the National Portrait Gallery. Hayes’s work features in over 20 public Australian collections. She has received several photographic prizes including the National Photographic Purchase Award, an Australia-Korea Foundation travel grant and the Olive Cotton Award for Excellence in Photographic Portraiture. In 2008 she was a finalist in the inaugural Prix Pictet exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France an award for international photography that engages with environmental themes. In 2010 Hayes was artist-in-residence at the. Australia Council studio in Barcelona, Spain.

Catch Siri’s artwork now at Local Remix Assembly: Artist colonies, residencies and the Collection at Montsalvat and Watch These Hands at Heide.