Rebecca Hayes is a mixed media artist and enjoys the collaboration of different processes. Her work is focused on the human body, both its physicality and it’s role as a vehicle for human experience.

Rebecca Hayes' most recent work was focused on recording her own body in a way that was not reliant on the second hand interpretations of a photograph or mirror. Being aware of our own bodies is not a primarily visual experience; we do not see ourselves as others see us.

An anatomical drawing is considered unrealistic when the artist does not observe foreshortening and depth, the interpretation of others is appropriately visual-centric, however, the way we observe a body from within it’s confinement demands a different interpretation, a tactile perspective.

By beginning with a process of wrapping the body in wire and then using this as a medium in printmaking, she has created a 2D self-portrait primarily through the process of touch. Touch is often considered the final decider over our reality, ‘Touch it to see if it’s real’. ‘Pinch me to see if I wake up’.

This has resulted in an aerial view from the head down to the feet, creating an impossible perspective of the self, which could not have been experienced visually.

 

Rebecca Hayes is an associate member of Hazlehurst Studios, Runcorn.

 

BA (Hons) Visual Arts

 

Exhibitions

2014    The Brindley, Runcorn, UK.

2014    Media City UK, Salford, UK.

2014    Hot Bed Press, Manchester, UK.

 

2015    Neo Artists Gallery, Bolton, UK.

2015    West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield, UK.

2015    The Art House, Wakefield, UK.

2015    Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast, UK.

2015    The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK.

2015    Hazlehurst Studios, Runcorn, UK.

2015    The Brindley, Runcorn, UK.