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About Stephen HaleyBACKGROUND INFORMATION
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Australian artist Stephen Haley builds a bridge from the discoveries of the Renaissance to the 21st century. The construction of the vanishing point, and with it central perspective, was the starting point for the development of the modern, technology-driven world of images. The vedute of the early Renaissance offered a sober view of the buildings of spatially well-ordered cities. Haley creates a congenial image of the highly ordered structures of today's living and working environments. Using 3D technology, he produces striking illusions, which he then breaks through repetition and the mirroring of real city panoramas. It is a visual art of the fugue, in which the modern world emerges from well-organised basic themes. Haley's works, which he calls "virtual photographs", are scientifically grounded visual commentaries on present and future developments.
Stephen Haley holds a doctorate from the University of Melbourne, where he taught art history. In his academic work, he has explored the themes of society and reflection in depth. His thinking and creative work today start from a network that encompasses the internet, other networks and the dependencies of modern humans: "The net encloses us all; it has the power to constrain us but also to connect us. It can oppress, but it can also radiate dizzying beauty – depending on how and by whom it is used."
According to Haley, real space is increasingly being shaped by models from virtual space. "The mirror has become a sign of our times. We stand at a historic moment in which the real is disappearing into simulation." The scholar's theses find their congenial counterpart in his almost disturbingly beautiful images of a particular future.
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BETWEEN REALITY AND VIRTUALITY
Stephen Haley's artistic engagement with urban space goes far beyond the depiction of architecture. His works are at once images of the world we live in and reflections on how that world comes into being. What at first glance appears to be a cityscape reveals, on closer inspection, a complex perspective on the relationship between people, space and technology.
This engagement runs through his decades-long career. As early as "New Estate & Nature Strips" (2002), he placed the designed environment of modern humans at the centre of his work. In later exhibitions such as "Cities, Factories, Walls and Malls" (2018), "Formwork and Forgeries" (2020) and "Unsettled" (2022), he developed his investigation of urban structures further. Architecture appears not only as an expression of human creative power, but also as a reflection of the social systems that shape our everyday lives.
The combination of artistic practice and scholarly reflection defines Haley's distinctive approach. As an art historian with a doctorate and a long-standing university lecturer, he unites analytical precision with visual imagination. His works move between painting, photography and digital imaging, opening up a space in which the boundaries between reality and simulation increasingly blur.
His artistic position has been recognised with numerous awards, including the ANZ Visual Art Fellowship (2004) and the Rupert Bunny Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship (2016). His works are held in major collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria and the Bendigo Art Gallery.
Haley's art does not simply take us into a possible future. It reveals how much of that future is already embedded in the images of our present.
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Stephen Haley was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1961. He studied history, philosophy and painting at renowned institutions in his home city and in 2005 received his doctorate from the University of Melbourne with a thesis on the significance of the mirror in contemporary culture. The combination of art and scholarship has shaped his work ever since, as well as his academic career: for many years he taught at Australian universities, including as Head of Painting at the University of Melbourne, which appointed him Honorary Senior Fellow in 2023.
His works, exhibited internationally, are held in major collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria and the Bendigo Art Gallery. Numerous awards recognise his artistic achievements, among them the ANZ Visual Art Fellowship (2004), the R & M McGivern Acquisitive Prize for Painting (2006) and the Rupert Bunny Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship (2016).
Exhibitions
2020 Formwork and Forgeries, Mars Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2019 DigiCiti, Art Central, Hong Kong, China 2017 Out of Place, Survey Exhibition 2004–2017, curated by Simon Lawrie, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, Langwarrin, Australia Reverse Photography, Rupert Bunny Art Fellowship Award Exhibition (collaborative photography with Penelope Davis), St Kilda Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Changing Places, Mars Gallery at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Sydney, Australia 2012 Somewhere About Now, Survey Exhibition 2006–2012, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2011 Here is There, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia 2008 Projected Worlds, Academy Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Australia 2007 Selected Video Works: Stephen Haley, National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, Australia 2006 Projector, 18th Street Arts Centre, Los Angeles, USA Solo Exhibitions
2021 The McClelland Collection: 50 Years of Spatial Practice, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Australia 2018 Chaos and Order: 120 Years of Collecting at RMIT, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2017 Digital: The World of Alternative Realities, Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne, Australia 2011 2112: Imagining the Future, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2010 At Home in the World, LUMAS Galleries worldwide 2009 Shelter: On Kindness, Melbourne International Arts Festival, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2004 The Spirit of Football, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Siggraph, Super Computing Conference, Pittsburgh, USA 2003 Glacier (touring exhibition), curated by Darren Wardle and Suzanne Davies, Benalla Art Gallery, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, QUT Art Museum Brisbane, Australia 1998 Deacons Graham and James / Arts 21 Award, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Australia Group Exhibitions
2008 Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Australia Macarthur Cook Painting Prize, FortyFiveDownstairs Gallery, Melbourne, Australia When I think about Art, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia 2007 Penelope Davis, Stephen Haley, Joyce Khol, Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, USA The Director’s Lounge 2007 Contemporary Art and Media, Berlin, Germany U-Turn, Glendale Art College Gallery, Glendale, Los Angeles, USA The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC Maroondah City Council Collection Highlights, Maroondah Art Gallery, VIC Macarthur Cook Painting Prize, 45 Downstairs, Melbourne, Australia Living Elvis, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2006 Random Access, curated by Robert Lindsay, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria Resistance is Futile, VCA Gallery, Victoria
Melbourne Reign, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaReunion, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2005 The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria World Year of Physics Art Prize, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Savage Club Invitation Prize, Savage Club, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Industrial Strength, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia 2004 The Spirit of Football, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Sigraph, Super Computing Conference, Pittsburgh, USA ANZ Visual Art Fellowship, ANZ Bank Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Young Collectors, Michael Carr Art Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Spring, Michael Carr Art Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia FloraNova, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Boogie, Jive and Bop, Curator Malcom Bywaters, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia2003 The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC Glacier, Curators Darren Wardle and Suzanne Davies, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, Victoria Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales Queensland Art Museum, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland Boogie, Jive and Bop, Curator Malcom Bywaters, Launceston Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania Hobart School of Art, Hobart, Tasmania Red Spot Special, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Hallelujah, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney 2002 Suburban Echo (Stephen Haley, Howard Arkley, Alex Danko, Darren Wardle; Curator Robert Lindsay), McClellan Regional Gallery, Mornington Home Front, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia Third Nature, Michael Carr Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria Recent Acquisitions 1999 – 2002, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, Victoria Clear Seeing, UMPA Art Prize Exhibition, Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia Innovation Exhibition, Innovation: Arts-Media-Design National Symposium Part 2, The VCA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2001 Glacier, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Here There Elsewhere: Suburban Themes, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Office of Utopic Procedures, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne, Australia A4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2000 A Brush With Death, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1999 The Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship 1999, VCA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia A Four Art, Westspace, Melbourne, Australia 1998 Deacons Graham and James/ Arts 21 Award, Museum of Art, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Stable, La Trobe Street Gallery, Melbourne
Diversity, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Centre of Art and Design, ChurchillA-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia Talk Artists Run Space, Melbourne, Australia Pinoak Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1997 Deacons Graham and James/ Arts 21 Award, Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Whim: Humour in Art, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Autumn Show, La Trobe St. Gallery, Melbourne.
Christ I’m Pissed Off, Stop 22 Gallery, Fringe Arts, Melbourne, AustraliaWork, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia A-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia 1996 See Spot Run, Next Wave Festival, Temple Studios, Melbourne, Australia Shifting Ground: Moonee Valley Invitation Art Prize, City of Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, Australia 100 Years of Footy, The Artist’s Garden, Melbourne, Australia A-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia 1995 Destinazione - Arte: Platform Artists Exchange Exhibition, Villa Spinola, Genova, Italy Rupert Bunny Foundation Selected Artists Exhibition, City of Port Phillip, Melbourne, Australia Save Albert Park Nine by Five Invitation Exhibition, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne ArtWorkz 7, 101 Collins St Gallery, Melbourne, Australia A-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia 1994 Power and Site, Next Wave Festival, Gallery Gecko, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia Out West, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia Endangered Species, Linden Gallery, St.Kilda, Melbourne, Australia The Room Outside, Argyle St. Studios Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia A-4 Art, Westspace Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia 1993 Slide, Gertrude St Gallery, 200 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia Small Works, Fitzroy St. Gallery, St.Kilda, Melbourne, Australia Young Melbourne Artists, Leonard Joel’s’ Auctions, Melbourne, Australia 1992 ArtWorkz Four, 101 Collins St Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Mass Hang, Deutscher Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia Daventry Art Prize, Monash Studios, Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia 1991 All Stock Must Go, Swanston St. Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia First National Student Art and Design Show, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Australia RMIT Graduate Show, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia 1990 Verisimilitudes, Swanston St Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
