Visiting Artist Opening Reception: James L Hayes

Join us as we celebrate the newly completed work by our recent Visiting Artist in Residence, James L Hayes. The reception will be held at The 600 Apartments from 4:00-6:00PM. This event is free and open to the public, but please RSVP to receive the building access code! 

About James: 

James L Hayes is a contemporary visual artist based in Cork, Ireland, he has a multi-disciplinary practice, making sculptures, installations, cast iron performances and film works as well as developing large-scale public art projects. Hayes’s recent works aim to reinvest a modernist sculptural language, whilst exploring aspects of casting technologies as a means by which to interrogate the boundaries between artist, artisan, and art object. His sculptural work aims to draw out the often incongruous relationships between finished art objects, and the industrial aspects of the processes that produce these often revered objects. This referencing or re-imagining is brought together with his broader research interests that range from contemporary interpretations of sculptural legacies and underexplored historical works and interpretations of contemporary literature and science and that draw from traces of significant pasts and cultural histories.   Hayes exhibits his works nationally and internationally, recently at the Centre Cultural Irlandais (CCI), Paris, The Glucksman Gallery, Cork, The Royal Hibernia Academy (RHA) Dublin, Caponi Sculpture Park Minnesota, The MART Gallery , Dublin, The McNally School of Fine Arts / La Salle College of Arts, Singapore, The UNO Gallery New Orleans, Art Market Budapest and SUPERMARKET Art Fair Stockholm. He has been an artist in residence at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre and The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Ireland, he is a graduate of TU /Limerick School of Art & Design (LSAD), De Montfort University, Leicester and University College London (UCL) in the UK and he is a Lecturer in Sculpture at Munster Technological University (MTU) Crawford College of Art in Cork, Ireland.