Kenneth Hay

Joined Artfinder: March 2018

Artworks for sale: 123

France

Updates from Kenneth Hay's studio

  • A Spasso a Venezia

    A short film documenting Moorland Production's digital percussion project with Venetian school children, exhibited at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. The project involved transforming the pupils' drawings into sound tracks for a digital audio CD which was played at the Biennale. Because of their personal involvement, pupils, parents and teachers all came to the Biennale, which is unusual, as local people often feel estranged from this major art event.

    14 January 2025

    Larroque Art Festival

    An annual international arts festival which I run in SW France. Over the years more than 650 artists from 50 countries have participated, exhibited and/or visited to meet, share ideas and work on new projects.

    14 January 2025

    The Studio in France

    A quick tour round the studio one day, with various works in progress

    14 January 2025
    Premio Internazionale Donatello

    Premio Internazionale Donatello

    Moorland Productions (Seetha A/Kenneth Hay) were in Florence at the Palazzo Borghese to receive the International Donatello Prize for their painting "Agapanthus", from Curators/Art Historians Silvio and Salvatore Russo, of the Effetto Arte Foundation, Palermo, Italy, on the 21 January 2023. Their work also featured in "Contemporary "Celebrity Masters", Volume 1, published by Effetto Arte and edited by Silvio Russo.

    06 February 2023
    Tokyo International Art Fair

    Tokyo International Art Fair

    Moorland Productions' (Kenneth Hay / Seetha A) painting "Geisha in Three Modes" was selected to represent the Art Fair as a poster on the Tokyo Underground. Estimated viewers: 6.8 million per day. We will be exhibiting a selection of our collaborative works at the Art Fair.

    18 September 2021
    Seetha at the National Gallery of Art, Valletta, Malta (2008)

    Seetha at the National Gallery of Art, Valletta, Malta (2008)

    Seetha A at our show of "Control Mechanisms" at the National Gallery of Art, Valletta, Malta (2008). The Group show of digital and painted work included Moorland Productions, Maltese artist Vince Briffa and UK artist John Michael Anderson. MP showed a series of "Control Mechanism" paintings, a series of digital prints of Japanese Zen Gardens, photographed in Kyoto, and a film, "Haiku" filmed in Japan in 2007.

    30 June 2021
    The Studio Leeds

    The Studio Leeds

    My Studio at Leeds University in the 1990s. The works in progress on the desk are some of the "Stalingrad' paintings, first exhibited at the Brahm Gallery, Leeds in 1996.

    03 March 2018
    The Bag Factory, Johannesburg, SA

    The Bag Factory, Johannesburg, SA

    Visiting the Bag Factory Studios in Johannesburg whilst there and in Pretoria for conferences and work as an examiner at the School of Fine Art and Architecture. They run an interesting artist residency programme.

    03 March 2018
    Screenprinting in Miro's Studio, Palma de Mallorca

    Screenprinting in Miro's Studio, Palma de Mallorca

    Editioning a print made with Seetha A during a residency at Joan Mirò's studio in Palma de Mallorca in 2012. We were part of an international 'translocal project' which developed several projects in Armenia, Mallorca, Ireland and France.

    03 March 2018
    The Studio, SW France

    The Studio, SW France

    I bought the former 'Mairie' (Town Hall) and Post Office of a tiny hamlet in SW France around 1996 and have been slowly renovating it - the Post office section is now the studio and gallery, from where Seetha and I (Moorland Productions) work, but we also host shows of other artists, invite artists to share a residency, and direct an annual Arts Festival.

    03 March 2018
    The Studio, Settignano, 1978

    The Studio, Settignano, 1978

    The studio in the sunlight. Whilst studying at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence between 1978 and 1980, I spent a year living in Settingnano, in the hills just north of Florence. This was my studio there.

    03 March 2018
    The Studio, Settignano, 1978

    The Studio, Settignano, 1978

    My studio in Settignano, in the hills just north of Florence, had a balcony running round it from where you could hear the distant bells of Florence, and look over the lemon groves to the city below. Michelangelo's brother had lived in the adjacent house, as well as Dante Gabriel Rossetti a few houses further away (a few years before me!). I stayed there for about a year whilst studying at the Accademia di Belle Arti under pupils of Guttuso and Kokoschka.

    03 March 2018