Hayley Smith (artist)

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Hayley Smith (born 1965) is an American sculptor. Smith is known for her intricate and detailed wood turning works.

Early life[edit]

Smith was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1965.[1] She studied both design and art education in Cardiff.[2] She discovered wood turning by accident when, during her second year of university, she was assigned a woodshop project and the lathe was the only tool not being used.[3]

Work[edit]

Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[1] the Minneapolis Institute of Art,[4] the Yale University Art Gallery[5] the Victoria & Albert Museum,[6] the Center for Art in Wood[7] and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Hayley Smith | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
  2. ^ Ulmer, Sean M.; Blackburn, Janice; Martin, Terry; McFadden, David Revere (2004). Nature Transformed: Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection. Hudson Hills. ISBN 978-1-930561-08-3.
  3. ^ Wallace, Kevin; Martin, Terry (June 2008). New Masters of Woodturning: Expanding the Boundaries of Wood Art. Fox Chapel Publishing. ISBN 978-1-60765-097-3.
  4. ^ "Bowl, Hayley Smith ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org.
  5. ^ "Hemisphere #6, Yale University Art Gallery". artgallery.yale.edu.
  6. ^ "Hemispherical Bowl #7/98 | Smith, Hayley | V&A Search the Collections". V and A Collections. 15 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Collection". The Center for Art in Wood.
  8. ^ "Hemispherical Bowl #7 | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org.