Hayley\u2019s LA Times commission for a story that revisited the #MeToo movement was a particularly standout piece for them, Hayley tells us, \u201cwhen I reflect on the piece, I remember how charged I was with raw emotion existing in proximity to my own life.\u201d Hayley is thankful to have expressed these feelings on this stage, on such a topic as sexual abuse, which thrives on silence.<\/p>\n
Feelings charge Hayley forward. For the Wellcome Collection, her illustrations accompanied a piece on the writer\u2019s adult autism diagnosis. A topic not too often spoken of in context of the adult experience, chronicling the writer\u2019s journey through illustration allowed Hayley to explore their own journey of diagnosis. From this personal series emerged a core tenet of Hayley\u2019s work \u2013 journeying.<\/p>\n
In terms of Hayley\u2019s methodology, it starts with making sense of a given article or essay \u2013 their dyslexia means they reread and highlight meaningful areas. These words thread together, picking up emotions along the way which Hayley pours into the body. When starting to draw, Hayley positions their or a friend’s body as reference imagery. It doesn\u2019t just stop at the body, however: \u201cAlongside the bodies, I emphasise the story I\u2019m telling through colour, hand-rendered textures, and metaphorical and symbolic environments.\u201d Not one to be caught up in the literal, Hayley repositions her illustrations and builds \u201cwindows into new worlds, inviting the viewer or reader in to form their own interpretation,\u201d she says. Illustration is an extension of worlds for Hayley, of new ideas and new experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayley\u2019s LA Times commission for a story that revisited the #MeToo movement was a particularly standout piece for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-32373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}