CV
b. 1983, Peterborough, UK
Selected Exhibitions & Opens
2024 Symbiosis, Four Corners (London), Curated by Hayley Harrison, Melanie King, and Ky Lewis
(May 2024)
Exploring grief and loss through art, Willesden Gallery (London), selected by Nadia Nervo
Symbiosis, Hundred Years Gallery (London), Curated by Hayley Harrison, Melanie King, and Ky Lewis
2023 Cubitt 30, Cubitt, (London)
Film and Beyond, Biddle Bros, (London)
2022 Cubitt 30, Victoria Miro, (London)
Re-Wild, Ilford Spark Lab, curated by Sheyamali Sudesh, (London)
Galvanise, Spitalfields Studios, curated by Annette Fernando, (London)
2021 TILT, Hoxton Gallery, (London)
Planted, Project Pop-Up, Art Walks Projects, (Edinburgh - Portobella)
2020 Fool’s gold, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum (Rugby)
ArtWorks Open 2020, ArtWorks Project Space (London) - Barbican Arts Group Trust,
selected by Alex Schady
and Michelle Williams Camaker
2019 Tracing the tide, Art Walk Porty Festival (Edinburgh)
Creekside Open, APT Gallery (London), Selected by Brian Griffiths
Wimmin II, Enterprise House (London)
Love & Rage, Atrium Space - Barbican Arts Group Trust (London) - Curated
East London Sound Ensemble performance, The Victoria (London)
2018 OUTPOST Members Show 2018, OUTPOST (Norwich), selected by The White Pube
The Great Divide: Popcorn, Beer and Politics, OVADA (Oxford)
Objection, ANGUS-HUGHES Gallery (London)
Object, hARTslane (London)
2017 ArtWorks Open 2017, ArtWorks Project Space (London) - Barbican Arts Group Trust,
selected by Florence Peake and Tai Shani
Rising, The Belfry and North Gallery (London), part of Art Licks
Kuuki, Roper Gallery (Bath), selected by Ellie Mawby
Deptford X Fringe, Brookmill Studios (London)
2016 The Overview Effect, Lewisham Art House (London)
Deptford X Fringe, Brookmill Studios (London)
2014 I am Beautiful Now, Radiant Art Gallery (Plymouth), selected by Ray White
Speculative Future, A-Side, B-Side Gallery (London), selected by Heather Gray
2013 The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries (London), Selected by Nina Murdoch,
Andrew Lambirth & Antony Williams
This Me of Mine, APT (London), Strange Cargo (Folkestone), Kaleidoscope Gallery (Sevenoaks), Ipswich Art School Gallery (Ipswich) curated by Jane Boyer, Supported by Arts Council England
The Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition, Zeitgeist Arts Project (London)
curated by Rosalind Davis & Annabel Tilley
2012 Cabinet Exhibition, Islington Arts Factory (London), selected by Antoni Ferrer
'Painters' at the Old Fire Station, Old Fire Station (London)
2011 New Lights Exhibition - Valeria Sykes Prize, Mercer Gallery (Harrogate), selected by Kate Brindley,
Paul Hobson & William Tillyer
2010 Surface Gallery Open Show 2010, Surface Gallery (Nottingham)
2007 Urban Space Off, FotoRio (Rio de Janeiro), New Life Shop (Berlin), FOTOPUB (Slovenia)
and FOTO ARTE (Brazil)
AudioVision, Dazed and Confused Gallery (London)
2005 A screening of 12 artists’ film and video, Showroom Cinema (Sheffield)
Residencies & Awards
21-22 Practicing Outside Residency, Phytology: Bethnal Green Nature Reserve
2021 Time Space Money, a-n Artists Bursary 2021:
Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England
2020 Emergency Fund for Individuals, Arts Council England
2019 National Lottery Project Grant, Arts Council England
Participatory Projects
2024 Strong Bonds For a Fragile Planet - Metal Peterborough (Peterborough) - Home is now - We are home - interactive walks
2023 To Be We Need to Know the River – LOT Projects (London), Circle of listening
Nunhead Cemetery East Lodge project- Nunhead Cemetery Open Day, All ages, Commissioned by Narrative by Design for Southwark Council
2022 Watford Neighbourhood Exchanges Project - Meridan Community Centre (Watford), All ages,
Cyanotype workshop, commissioned by Bridget Sawyers Art Consultants for Watford Borough Council
Phytology: Bethnal Green Nature Reserve (London), Adults, Circle of listening - a meditative gathering of experimental listening activities whilst sitting and walking silently together
Cubitt (London), All ages, listening sessions to inform organisation’s environmental policy - listening with students from a secondary school and a community group
Phytology: Bethnal Green Nature Reserve (London), All ages, Cyanotype workshop in collaboration with Melanie King
The Mildmays (London), Older people - Cyanotype workshop for residents living in extra care housing
2021 PEER (London), All ages - a quest to communicate with local gardens and pavement plants
2020 Benn Partnership Centre (Rugby), Adult Group - Sculptures made from discarded materials
2013 – 2020
Peel Community Centre (London), Over 55’s - Lead weekly art group combining traditional art mediums with discarded materials, in response to the local human and non-human environments surrounding the centre
Sept 2012 – 2020
Cubitt Gallery – Teachers (London), KS3 & 4, over 55’s, and residents living with dementia - Delivery of regular one off & short term workshops
July 2016 – July 2018
Positive Collective – Studio 5 (London), Adults - Led weekly group exploring acts of hopeful activism through the making and sharing of art, spontaneous hope and happiness in public spaces, and for guests of a night shelter for homeless people in Islington
Mar 2015 - Sept 2017
Claremont Community Centre (London), Over 55’s - Led weekly Art Club, supporting the development of individual’s creative practices
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
Archer Academy (London), KS3 - Led weekly experimental oil painting after-school club
Sept 2013 – Mar 2014
Beatrice Tate Secondary School (London), SLD & PMLD Tower Hamlets - Led an off site art club exploring nature at Mile End Art Pavilion
Performance & walks
2023 and we walk, Regents Canal (London)
2022 ‘Projection’:
An Evening of Listening, Phytology: Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, (London)
No, I Don’t Want No Scrub, Hartslane (London)
2021 ‘Flying Phantom’, Hoxton Gallery (London)
2019 ‘Kirsty, Kirsty, how does your garden grow’, Wimmin II, Enterprise House (London)
2018 ‘Home is now’:
Visions in the Nunnery, Nunnery Gallery (London), Selected by Tessa Garland & Sophie Hill
Objection, ANGUS-HUGHES Gallery (London)
Object, hARTslane (London)
Bring Your Own Performance, SPACE (London)
Bargerella, The Floating Butty (London)
Publications
2023 To Be We Need to Know the River, Publication – August 2023
Listening with: Reflections on the Earth Crisis, Commissioned by Cubitt, Supported by Islington Giving for Going Greener Project
2022 ARK, ‘Projection’, Dark Mountain: Issue 22
2013 Jane Boyer, This 'Me' of Mine: Self, Time & Context in the digital Age, (Speak Me Many Times - Artist Interview), Xlibris, UK
2011 Tim Ridley, Something's happening, selected by Tim Ridley as a-n Choice Blog (July 2011)
Selected Commissions & Talks
2021 First Friday, art.earth - a talk about Hayley’s residency at Phytology: Bethnal Green Nature Reserve.
Where can we find hope, Fevered Sleep (London) - ‘Time travelling, back to you – to be with you now’ is an audio and text response to Fevered Sleeps project ‘Where can we find hope’
2020 Creative Activism, British Museum (London) - Looking at how society has changed during 2020, BM Youth
Collective member Layla Bradbeer speaks to artist Hayley Harrison about their work as an artist, their practice and how they use their work to speak about the climate crisis.
Art Matters, Almeida Theatre (London) - Hayley Harrison was invited as a panellist on a discussion and critique at Almeida Theatre in which young activists revealed their artistic responses to the climate crisis. This event was part of the ‘Shifting Tides’ Festival
Fool’s Gold and where to find it - Rugby Art Gallery & Museum (Rugby) and Cubitt Gallery (London) - a talk by Hayley Harrison and Pamela Schilderman about processes within their practices and work made for ‘Fool’s Gold’ at Ruby Art Gallery and Museum
2019 If we talk of remarkable things - part of the Going places Festival, Cubitt Gallery (London) -
A talk with 7 artists about their commissioned work with older people in community or care settings
Professional Development
2023 Artquest Activism & Social Change (CLIMATE)
2020 London Creative Network, SPACE (London)
2013 School for Artist Educators, Cubitt Gallery (London)
2005 BA HON’s Fine Art (2:1), Sheffield Hallam University (Sheffield)
2002 BTEC Diploma in foundation Studies in Art and Design. Loughborough University (Loughborough)