Kildare native Simon Hayes, who works as a facilities manager on the Johnstown Estate, Co Meath, currently has his work on show in Gormleys\u2019 Sculpture Auction until Tuesday, 12 May.<\/p>\n
He is known for contemporary steel sculptures which carry philosophical insights, involving steel geometric structures and some featuring reflective surfaces.<\/p>\n
Mr Hayes, who creates his sculptures in his home in Donadea, Co Kildare, is known for contemporary steel sculptures which carry philosophical insights.<\/p>\n
Mr Hayes added: \u201cI like to examine societal structure in my work \u2013 in particular, the invisible rules and invisible boxes it puts you in.\u201d<\/p>\n
His recent debut into the art world, just over three years ago, has been met with critical success, including a Sculpture in Context award.<\/p>\n
Mr Hayes\u2019 collection at Gormleys\u2019 Sculpture Auction has the potential to reach \u20ac120,000, while the entire auction contents have a high estimate of \u20ac630,000.<\/p>\n
The auction involves over 100 garden structures and also includes pieces by artists Eamonn Ceannt, Patrick O\u2019Reilly, Olivia Kim, Paddy Campbell and Cody Swanson also feature in the auction.<\/p>\n
The 45-year-old first worked with steel as a way to create a hanging chair for his garden.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI created my home workshop to work with steel because it presents a great deal of choice in terms of malleability. \u201cI am a carpenter by trade, so there is some cross-over in terms of the skillset. However, with wood, you are working with a bulky material, whereas steel allows you to create a big piece from a starting material that is relatively smaller.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of his works in the auction, Escape, is formed from individual large nails which together create the impression of a box, speaking to the discomfort he says can come from existing within the invisible parameters of society.<\/p>\n
Mr Hayes\u2019 work is also currently being shown at Cotswold Sculpture Park, south of Cheltenham in the UK.<\/p>\n
His works are being shown alongside a range of international sculptors.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Gormley\u2019s auction is currently showing on gormleyartauctions.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kildare native Simon Hayes, who works as a facilities manager on the Johnstown Estate, Co Meath, currently has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,17753,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-418159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}