Tony Hayward studied Sculpture at Saint Martins School of Art and completed his Master's at the Royal College of Art in Ceramics. He is a curator, artist–publisher and fine artist. He lectures on Made In India, a unique collection of over 300 items and artefacts that are examples of designer–making from the Indian sub-continent. The collection of toys, automata and small manufactured items today represents some of the fast-disappearing aspects of craft and design in India. Yet the collection serves to inspire and inform representing the innovative re-use and reinvention of materials such as misprinted tin to recycled metal.
Tony Hayward has exhibited in the UK at the Victoria Miro Gallery, Flowers East, Gallery S O, Marsden Woo, Ikon Gallery, Whitechapel Art Gallery and many others. Internationally, his work has been shown in the US and throughout Europe. His work is in various collections from Unilever to the British Council. In 2010 he exhibited at the Jerwood Contemporary Makers and curated a sculpture exhibition, Heft in Winchester.
He is an artist–publisher and lectures at the Royal College of Art, Camberwell College of Arts and many other colleges, museums and galleries including the V&A.
Hayward travels frequently to India and has a collection of recycled items, toys and automata broadly shown under the title Made In India. He also gives talks, papers and lectures at various schools, colleges and museums. He has recently published a book, Indian Rat Traps. The research for
the book was based on a collection of small manufactured items from
India that us scrap materials as their basis.
Recent publications by Tony Hayward include: Indian Rat Traps (2009) and Loving Couples (2010).
Recent exhibitions include Jerwood Foundation (2010) Jerwood Makers 2010; Marsden Woo Gallery (2010) Double Take, London; Gallery S O (2010) Multiples, London; Andromeda, (2009) Buitendoor, Ostende, Belgium and Asia House (2008) Indian Mud Flaps, London.
Tony Hayward’s fields of research interest include scrap and waste materials and the ‘hidden life of things’. Working with various collections of ephemera, Tony Hayward explores appropriation and identity and is currently researching a book on Indian misprinted matter.