Statement: Gregory Hayman
Statement: Gregory Hayman
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:
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
Prizes and Competitions:
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
Public Collections
Talks & Lectures
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).