Cameron Hayes
Cameron Kingsley Hayes (born 1969), known as Cameron Hayes, is an Australian artist specialising in large scale allegorical oil paintings in a figurative style. His paintings have been selected for numerous prestigious Australian art prizes including The Blake Prize, Moet and Chandon Fellowship and the Sir John Sulman Art Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Early life and education Cameron Hayes was born in Sydney in 1969. His family relocated to Melbourne where he attended St Kevin's College in Toorak. When his father was jailed, he remained at the school on scholarship. He attended RMIT University (Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts) in Melbourne, Australia. Work Cameron Hayes is a painter using traditional oil pigments on linen. He paints intricate, multi-layered compositions encompassing subjects from Australian identity, contemporary culture, global politics, history, ethics and observational human behaviour. Each canvas relates to a “story” requiring the artist to research subjects from a multidisciplinary perspective, utilising narrative and allegorical devices to compose the artwork. He is an Australian figurative painter who creates visually complex artworks made up of uniquely individual characters, scenes and motifs intersecting across expansive picture planes, often described by critics and writers as being in the style