Hayley Sheldon USA, b. 1984

Hayley Sheldon is a multidisciplinary sculptor and installation artist focusing on tactility and color. She is continually interested in experimenting with common materials and manipulating them in new ways. Her current body of work utilizes a catalog of shapes made by sewing directly into wood frames using the fibers to create a translucent color field effect.

Sheldon strives to blur the boundaries between contemporary, minimalist art and woven, fiber-based handicrafts, in an attempt to elevate methods and traditions often considered to be activities of the domesticated woman, and speak to the viewer in the universal language of color and form. Her work finds inspiration from and pays homage to the natural world, while simultaneously giving a defined physical presence to amorphous ideas surrounding joy, loss, tenderness and distant memory. Hayley is drawn to the meditative quality found in repetition of movement and gravitates towards this kind of creating.