Rick Hayward
Brisbane, Queensland
Rick Hayward is a Meanjin / Brisbane based artist and maker exploring consciousness and perceptions of reality through the craft based practices of fine woodworking and verre églomisé. Embracing traditional hand tools and techniques, he accesses the meditative qualities of discipline and process as an enquiry into the human condition, culminating in multi-dimensional works that bridge subject and object.
Hayward’s work is distinguished by his approach to design as being conceptual, functional, and aesthetic. He is interested in combining materials from his crafts to explore ideas around subjective reality, using furniture making techniques as a means to explore the physicality of the human experience; how the process of making can affect his subjective experience, and how interaction with the work affects others experience.
Hayward a qualified Signwriter (Cert. III), and have owned and operated creative studios since 2011. He has been trained by some of the worlds best in this field including David A Smith (UK) for gold leaf gilding. In 2021 he attended Roy Schack’s Foundation Course at the Brisbane School of Fine Woodwork, and continue to be mentored by Roy. Hayward attended the Sturt School for Wood in 2023, one of the worlds premium craft schools (Cert. III Furniture Design and Manufacture), where he was awarded student of the year by Studio Woodworkers Australia for his work as judged by the tutors. In 2024 Hayward was a finalist in the Maker of the Year award by Wood Review magazine, and won the Wootha Furniture Prize.
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Image credits
Photo of Rick Hayward. Photography by Jack Gibson. Image courtesy of Rick Hayward.
Asym Mirror, 2023, Rick Hayward. Steam bent Ebonised Blackwood, Glass, 12k White Gold leaf and 21k Champagne Gold Leaf. 40cm x 60cm x 4cm. Image courtesy of Rick Hayward.
