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OCT24              EATING NEW YORK Glen Hayward

Quality presents the latest iteration of ‘Eating New York’ by sculptor Dr Glen Hayward, in collaboration with @PAULNACHE, Aotearoa NZ. Following on from installations at Sydney Contemporary, Canberra Art Biennale, Aotearoa Art Fair and City Gallery Wellington, we are excited to bring these conceptual carvings to the space for the first two weekends of October.

Aaron Lister writes “Glen Hayward’s work blends carving, painting and conceptualism to snare the viewer in a standoff around what is real or illusionary, art or not art, profound or absurd.

Hayward’s work is based on his travels to some of the world’s major galleries. Rather than profound art experiences, Hayward walked away with bad photographs of fixings such as the gold drinking fountain and the exit doors at The Museum of Modern Art. He later remakes these objects out of wood in his Whanganui studio.

Hayward is a wayward art viewer and, in many ways, also a wayward maker of art. His work constantly forces us to look and think again. It offers a kind of everyday mysticism, challenging us to trust in or doubt the validity of the objects or experiences that we encounter in the here and now—especially inside the art gallery but also in the world beyond it.”

Curated by: Glen Hayward, Sophie Adsett, Felix Adsett, PAULNACHE


Glen Hayward was born in 1974 Whanganui, Aotearoa NZ and completed his doctoral dissertation at Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 2005.