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Gregory Hayman

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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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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.  

 

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