Cameron Hayes
Cameron Hayes
Hellen Keller, Annie Sullivan, Phiz and Mark Twain the Day Helen Keller Realised Everything Had a Word, 2006
Biography
Australian painter Cameron Hayes creates densely populated, dystopian worlds that call to mind the grotesquerie of Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights—but Hayes’ scenes address the modern world. Hayes blends stories ripped from present-day headlines and fictional themes, in effect producing paintings filled with charged contemporary subjects: pollution, political corruption and terrorism, economic inequality, and the sexualization of children in the media. One of his most controversial series centered on the Australian Aboriginal community of Tiwi Island, which Hayes painted in his signature, unsettling style, populating landscapes with graffiti and squalor; the show was cancelled amid public outcry, before being hosted elsewhere.
Exhibitions
Oct 2023 – Feb 2024 Group Show Airspace
Jan 05 – Feb 16, 2018 Cameron Hayes Cameron Hayes
Apr 01 – May 06, 2011 Cameron Hayes Tattles
Nov 21 – Dec 22, 2008 Group Show Drawing Review: 37 Years of Works on Paper
Cameron Hayes
Before There were Laws for Corporate Pedophilia, 2003
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Cameron Hayes
When the Rain Came the Terrorists Didn't Know Which Way Was Up, 1999
oil on linen
Cameron Hayes
The Russians Knew Perfectly Well That the Happiness of the African Animals Was That They Had Such Low Expectations before the Pets Were Introduced, 2007
oil on linen
Cameron Hayes
The Race to Be the First Celebrity: Jack the Ripper versus the Elephant Man, 2011
oil on linen
Cameron Hayes, 2008
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