Karan Hayman
Karan Hayman
AMONGST WATER These most recent works continue to reflect and explore the realms of Mother Nature and the natural environment with all its beauty, hardship and complexity once humans are also added to the mix. Mixed in with the timeless and ageless questions to those mysteries and the ambiguities that arise. Colours are used to reflect mood and emotion and shapes are carefully placed and positioned to construct and create space, perspective and to help balance and build the overall compositions. The familiar images and motifs that historically reappear throughout my work have become more sophisticated over time more direct and obvious. The hills, waterways, seas, roads, trees, boats, birds, horses ect ect each have a symbolic metaphorical purpose and are used to represent and reflect the timeless questions around the spiritual, the unknown and to reflect emotions, feelings of loss, thoughts and ideas. An example would be ‘boats’ used to represent our timeless external search for ‘something more’ or ‘something new’ a new journey, a new pathway ect ect. ‘Hayman’s response to the landscape is an aesthetic one imbued with the sensitivity of an artist who feels the landscape as much as see’s it. “The mood of isolation and a strange melancholy exude her work” Dr Ashley Crawford Australian Arts writer and author of numerous publications.
Born in 1959 Hayman studied Fine Art at RMIT in 1980 and while still at Art School in 1981 was a founding artist that established Roar Studios Artist Run Co Operative and Gallery in Brunswick Street Fitzroy Melbourne. Hayman completed Post graduate studies at RMIT in 1992. Hayman has held numerous solo exhibitions in Australia and Tokyo and has been represented in numerous group exhibitions in around Australia including National Gallery of Australia Canberra, Heidi Art Museum, Shepparton, Regional Art Gallery, Benalla Regional Gallery ect and most recently Ponlyland Exhibition at Logan Art Gallery QLD as well as Group exhibitions in Tokyo and USA. Hayman’s work is held in the collections of National Gallery of Australia Canberra, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Bank, New Parliament House Collection, Kyneton Collection Macedon Ranges Shire Council, Baillieu Myer Collection, Gaden’s Sydney, Zurich Insurance Melbourne, Sangi Company Collection Tokyo and numerous private collections in Australia, Europe, USA and Japan. Sales: Julie Collins - Director gallery@djprojects.net 0417324 795 Free delivery and installation within Victoria. Shipping arranged interstate and overseas. & Gallery accepts Art Money www.artmoney.com www.andgalleryaustralia.net
Visit our 475sq mt gallery at 21 Morce Ave Sorrento
Black Swan 41 x 51 cm Oil on Linen $3,200
Cloud Over Boat 41 x 51 cm Oil on Linen $3,200
Watching 87 x 97 cm Oil on Canvas $6,500
Morning Sun 61 x 71 cm Oil on Linen $4,700
Apple Tree 30 x 30cm Oil on Canvas $2,500
Horse Grazing 61 x 51 cm Oil on Linen $3,700
Adrift 107 cm x 97 cm 2023 Oil on Linen $7,500
Flower Days 107 x 91 cm Oil on Linen $7,500
Across the Water 2023 61 X 51 cm oil on Linen $4.700
Heading Out 30 x 25 cm Oil on Canvas $1,800
Safe Waters 102 x 107 cm Oil on Linen $7,500
Sun Still Shines 61 x 71 cm Oil on Linen $4,700
Island Cove 41 x 51 cm Oil on Linen $3,200
Safe Waters 102 x 107 cm Oil on Linen $7,500
Road to Somewhere 51 x 41 cm Oil on Linen $3,200
Cloudy Skies 41 x 51 cm Oil on linen $3,200
Hill Island 46 x 61 cm Oil on Linen $3,500
Karan Hayman EDUCATIONAL / BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS 1959
Born Melbourne
1980-82
Diploma of Fine Art, R.M.IT Melbourne
1981
Founding Artist, Roar Studios, Melbourne
1983
Travelled Europe
1987
Living and Working in Kyneton, Victoria
1989
Travelled Italy, England and Japan, Solo show Tokyo
1992
Post Graduate Diploma of Fine Art, R.M.I.T.
1995
Living and Working in Melbourne
2002
Travelled Woomera for Anti Nuclear Exhibition
2003
Travelled Japan
2013
Living and working Kyneton
2014
Travelled Japan and Exhibited Tokyo.
2017
Artist in Residence, Murals Project, Candlebark School, Kerrie, Victoria.
2017
Travelled Vietnam
2018
Travelled Japan, Artists in residence, Kangaroo Valley,Shark Island Institute.
2019
Artist in residence, Kangaroo Valley Exhibition, Shark Island Institute.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2023
Amongst Water - Recent Paintings & Gallery Australia, Sorrento, Vic
2022
Cross Currents & Gallery Australia, Sorrento, Vic
2019
Quiet Escapes Fletcher Arts Melbourne
2018
Soliloquy. Franque. Melbourne
2017
Sentio. Stevens Street Gallery. Yandina, Qld
2012
Paintings, Vosti House, Melbourne
2009
Recent works, Vosti House, Melbourne
2003
Heartlands, Nellie Casten Gallery, Melbourne
1999
Paintings, The Continental Café, Melbourne
1998
Interludes, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1992
Paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1990
Paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1989
Paintings, Gallery Zenta, Tokyo
1988
Paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1983
Roar Studios, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023
Salon Hang. & Gallery Australia, Sorrento. Victoria.
Metaphorical Landscapes. Fletcher Arts. Melbourne.
2022
Roar Exhibition. The Australia Club. Melbourne.
Only Human. & Gallery, Australia, Fed Square. Melbourne.
2021
Salon Hang. Fletcher Arts. Melbourne.
2020
Gippsland Art Gallery Bushfire Benefit
2019
Artist in Residence Exhibition, Kangaroo Valley, Shark Island Institute
2019
Covett and Collect Fletcher Arts Melbourne
2018
Franque,
2017
Ponyland Logan Regional Gallery, Qld
Melbourne
Photos by Martin Kantor, Art by subjects. Brightspace Gallery, Melbourne 2016
Artists for Kids Culture Trust, Brightspace Galllery, Melbourne Franque, Melbourne
2015
Franque, Melbourne
2014
Karan Hayman and Mark Howson, Sangi Collection. 40 Year Company Celebrations. Tokyo, Japan
2013
Spring Salon Franque Gallery, Melbourne
Winter Salon Franque Gallery, Melbourne
2012
Two By Four, Salt Gallery, Queenscliff
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Artists For Kids Culture, Brightspace, Melbourne
10 Years Brightspace Gallery , Melbourne
Roar Show, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide
2011
Roar Reviewed 30 Years On, Melbourne
Artists for Kids Culture Trust, Brightspace Gallery , Melbourne
Seven Seas,Salt Gallery, Queenscliff, Vic
2010
Brightspace Gallery, Melb
2010
Brightspace Gallery, Melbourne
2009
Brightspace Gallery, Melbourne
2008
Art Fair Melbourne, Melbourne
2007
Etchings,Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
2005
Artists’ Garden Show, Melbourne
Artists for Kids Culture Trust Exhibition, Melbourne
2004
Artists for Kids Culture Trust Exhibition, Melbourne
2003
Paintings, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney.
2002
‘Secret Country’ Gould Galleries, Melbourne
‘Erotica Today’ Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
2001
‘Roar Again’ Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
Metro 5 Christmas Show, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
2001
‘My Room’ Crown Casino, Melbourne
2000
John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery
‘We Are Australian’ Touring Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide,
Perth, Brisbane etc
Contempory Art Prize, Williamstown
‘The Art of Saving Lived’ Sothebys, Melbourne
1999
Artists for Kids Culture Trust Exhibition, Melbourne
1998
Kyneton Art Fair, Kyneton
1997
‘The Melbourne Group’ Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Nillumbik Art Award, Eltham
‘Roar 15 Years’ Roar Studios, Melbourne
Darebin La Trobe Art Prize, Melbourne
1996
Working Art Prize, Steps Galley, Melbourne
Celebration of the Horse, KDRT, Kyneton
Artists for Kids Culture Trust Exhibition, Melbourne
‘Paintings’ Vosti House, Melbourne
1995
‘Works on Paper’ Kyneton Collection Exhibition, Kyneton Greenpeace ‘Non – Artists against Nuclear Testing’ Ether Ohnnetitel, Melbourne
1994
1st Annual Kyneton Collection, Kyneton
‘Six Women Artists’ Art Center, Kyneton Prime Painting Prize, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery and Touring Orange Regional and Tamworth Regional Gallery
1993
R.M.I.T. Post Graduate Exhibition, Monash Studios, Collingwood Melbourne
Kyneton Art Fair, Kyneton Racetrack, Kyneton
Robb Street Gallery, Bairnsdale The Mill Exhibition, Kyneton
1992
‘Roar Studios Touring Exhibition’ Heide Park & Art Gallery Touring Shepparton Art Gallery, Benalla Art Gallery and Ballarat Art Gallery
ROAR 82-83 NOW
9 Roar Artists, William Mora Gallery, Melbourne
“10 Square Works for Wilderness” Linden Gallery Melbourne
1991
Works on Paper, William Mora Gallery, Melbourne ‘Seven Roar Artists-Ten Years On’Gallery 2, Launceston
1990
‘Works On Paper’ William Mora Gallery Melbourne
‘Greenpeace Benefit Exhibition’, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
‘Artists Against Animal Experimentation’, Deutcher Gallery, Melbourne
1989
‘Australian Art’ Caz Gallery, Los Angeles
Heidleberg And Heritage 9x5, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Gtoup show Robb St Gallery, Bairnsdale
Preview 1990, William Mora Gallery, Melbourne
1988
‘A New Generation’ Phillip Morris Arts Grant Purchases 1983-88 Australian National Gallery, Canberra ‘Work from the Studio’ Coventry Gallery, Sydney
‘Group Show’ William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1987
‘Colour 1’ Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1986
‘A First Look’ recent purchases, Drill Hall, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
‘Colour 2’ Coventry Gallery, Sydney
‘Winter Collection’ Rhumbarellas, Melbourne
1986
Drawings’ Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1985
‘Raw Reality’ Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1985
‘The Melbourne Group’ Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Drawing Exhibition Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1984
Group Show, Roar Studios, Melbourne
1983
‘Two Person Show’ Roar Studios, Melbourne
Group Show, Roar Studios, Melbourne
1982
Opening Exhibition, Roar Studios, Melbourne
Roar Studios Almost Christmas Show, Roar Studios, Melb
1981
Benefit Exhibition for Roar Studios, Green Street Studios, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS Art Bank; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria; New Parliament House Canberra; RMIT Collection, Baillieu Myer Collection; Gaden’s Collection; Shire of Kyneton, Sangi Collection Tokyo; Zurich InsuranceCollection and private collections in Australia, Japan, Europe and USA COMMISSIONS 2023
Indoor Swimming Pool Commission. Phillip Island. Victoria
2017
External Mural at Candlebark School, Kerrie, Vic
2011
Six Large Works for Asia Pacific P/L
1986
Restaurant Murals, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Canberra Phillip Morris Arts Grant,
1985
Dynamite Stores, Melbourne & Sydney
PRIZES 2022 Maritime Art Prize. Shortlisted. Melbourne. Kangaroo Valley Painting Prize. Shortlisted. N.S.W. 2021 Lethbridge Prize. Shortlisted. Qld. 2000 John Leslie Painting Prize. Shortlisted. Gippsland Art Gallery. Contemporary Art Prize. Shortlisted. Williamstown. 1997 Nillimbik Art Prize. Shortlisted. Eltham. Darebin La Trobe Art Prize. shortlisted. Melbourne. 1994 Prime Painting Prize. Newcastle Regional Gallery. Shortlisted. Touring Orange Regional Gallery and Tamworth Regional Gallery. BIBLIOGRAPHY 2011
‘Roar Reviewed’ 30 Years On, Denise Morgan, Macmillan Publishing
2006
‘Directory of Australian Art’, Dr Ashley Crawford, Craftsman House
2006
‘The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Susan McCulloch, Allen & Unwin
2002
Review Jeffrey Makin, ‘The Sun’ Melb 25 November
2001
Review ‘Roar Again’ Herald Sun, Melbourne
2001
‘Roar To The Fore’ Herald Sun, Melb
1995
‘Roar…And Quieter Moments from A Group Of Melbourne Artists’,
Traudi Allen, Craftsman House
1994
‘Images 2’ Contemporary Australian Painting, Neville Drury, Craftsman House
1994 ‘
The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Allen McCulloch, Revised and Updated by Susan McCulloch, Allen & Unwin
1993
‘New Art Eight’, Profiles in Contemporary Australian Art, edited by Neville Drury, Craftsman House
1992
bROARd Sheet, Roar 82-83 Now, 26 May-4 June
1992
Roar Studios Touring Catalogue, Joe Pascoe and Katrina Fraser, Shepparton Art Gallery
1991
‘The Artists that Roared’ The Age, Peter Wilmoth, Melbourne
1991
Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia, Germaine Max
1998
‘Fantastic View’ Herald Sun, Jay Carter Melbourne
1989
‘Raw Art’ The Express, Jeanie Heynats, Bairsdale, Vic
1988
‘Expressionism Attained’ The Herald Melbourne
1988
‘Dealing With Willy Mora’, The Age’ Jenny Brown, Melbourne
1987
Reviews Sydney Morning Herald,
1985
‘Art Network’Melbourne Group Show Review, Sydney, Cathy Lumby & John Ferris
1985
‘Roar Reality’ The Age, Melbourne
1982
‘Roar Something to Shout About’ The Age-Weekender