Clinton Hayden

Clinton Hayden’s photography-based installation practice explore ideas of intimacy and longing.

Through the use of perspective, depth of field is enhanced as a metonym for proximity. Objects from a domestic environment are used to engage in ideas of a shared intimate space. Portraiture, incidental and still life photography are utilised to generate tensions between states of presence and absence.

Through these adaptive photographic processes, Hayden’s work emphasises varied states of physical and emotional closeness.

“Hayden exemplifies the possibility for personally driven practice to be handsome and confronting; sexually charged and engaging; brave, and above all generous”

Dr Zoe Marr, 2010

Masters of Fine Art (Photography) RMIT , Melbourne
Graduated 2011

Bachelor of Arts (Visual) ANU School of Art
Graphic Investigation Workshop(Major), studied in Photomedia and the Artist Book Studio as sub-majors. Graduated 2003.