Education:

2019:                     Bachelor of Art & Design, SCU.

2017:                     Certificate IV Training & Assessment

2015 – 2016:       Diploma Visual Art, Lismore TAFE.

1999 – 2000:       Graduate Diploma in Education

1999:                     Photography: An Introduction. RMIT, Melbourne. Certificate of Completion (Distance Education)

2001 – 2002:       Bachelor Visual Arts (four units) Open Learning, Curtin University. WA (Distance Education) Introduction to Sculpture, Ceramics, Painting, Jewellery Making, Textiles

1992 – 1999:       Bachelor of Arts, New England University. Communication & Design (Distance Education)

1990 – 1993:       Certificate of Attainment.  Desktop Publishing, Touch Typing, Word Processing.  TAFE

1983 – 1987:       Fashion Retail Advanced Course. Inverell, NSW. TAFE.  College. Needlecraft, Commercial Advanced Certificate

1978 – 1980:       General, Psychiatric Registered Nurse Training plus training in Audiometry, Podiatry, Grief counselling

 Professional Experience:

2017                       Casual Teacher of Art North Coast TAFE Lismore

2000 – 2007:       Primary & High School teacher – Art, Computer, Design, Personal Development, Languages

1996 – 2003:       Owner & operator cypress pine sawmill

1993 – 1996:       Typesetter, photographer & writer for The Bingara Advocate, NSW

1988 – 1994:       Farm owner & manager – cattle & sheep – wool used for natural dyeing & spinning

1985 – 1993:       Community college teacher of sewing, use of overlockers, patchwork, quilting & computing.

1975 – 1985:       Psychiatric, General & Community Registered Nurse

Volunteer Work:             

2004:                     Set designer, builder, photographer, costume designer, costume sewer for ‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream’, North West Theatre Company. Also ‘Educating Rita’.

1998 – 2007        Foundation Member, Life Member, Treasurer/Organizer, Myall Creek Memorial Committee (Heritage listed in 2009)

1991 – 2003        Photographer Roxy Theatre Restoration Committee, Bingara. Judge of various local competitions.

Exhibitions

2020:     ‘Control. Abuse. Kill. She’ll Be Right Mate’ Lismore Regional Gallery

2019:     Graduation Show Southern Cross University. ‘Control. Abuse. Kill.’ People’s Choice Award.

2018:     Installation ‘Witness Trees’ with artist Judy Watson and Julie Gough at Myall Creek, June. 

2012 – 2013: ‘The Unfinishable’ textile tour of the United Kingdom

2012:     ‘Fiber in the Present Tense’. The Arsenal Center for the Arts, Boston. Massachusetts.

Publications: Media:

2020:    Video by ABC Journalist Catherine Marciniak of 2019 Graduation Show ‘Control. Abuse. Kill: She’ll Be Right Mate!’ shown on ABC and across Australia on the ABCs web pages. https://youtu.be/6ZB8juhgVSU           

2016:   Textile Fibre Forum.  ‘Unravelling. The Art of Paulette Hayes’. Steven Giese. ArtWear Publications, Ashburton, Victoria. Issue # 121, 2016, pp 36-38.

2012:     Fibre Art Now. ‘Fibre in the Present Tense’. Adrienne Sloane. Fibre Art Now, East Freetown. MA. Spring 2012. Volume 1, Issue 3. Pp 8-9.

2012:     Featured artist in Tales Of The Unfinishable: Investigating the Incomplete.  Felicity Clarke and Hazel Connors. Wide Open House., Arts Council England. 2012.  Pp 32 – 34.

2011:     Photo of Art Quilt ‘So Tell Me I Don’t Have Lyme’ for article ‘In Our Blood’ by Sam Telford.

 Martha’s Vineyard Arts & Ideas. Patrick Phillips (Pub)., June 2011. P42

2004:     Cover photo for book Genocide and settler society: frontier violence and stolen indigenous children in Australian history. Dirk Moses. Berghahn Books, 2004.

Awards:

2012:     The Kirtz/vAn Nortwich Award. For ‘Cambodia: The Killing Fields’. The Artist as QuiltMaker XV. Ohio, USA.