SOLO SHOW, RAE & BENNETT GALLERY

An exhibition of new photographs

Last year while visiting America the sisters traced the journey of their American ancestors as they pioneered westward, before settling under Montana's Big Sky.

"Stories and songs of our family lineage were uncovered, recounted and shared as we travelled. These photographs are a record of our time spent in Wibaux, Montana (population 580), the place where our Great grandmother Verona was born a hundred years ago, in a one room shack."

Image: The Sisters Hayes, A Portrait of The Sisters Hayes in Big Sky Country (detail), 2012

WHEN

Opening
Friday 24 February 2012, 6pm

Exhibition
24 Feb - 30 Mar 2012
Tues to Fri 10am - 5pm

WHERE

Rae & Bennett Fine Art Printers & Gallery
475 Brunswick Street, North Fitzroy

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project11:
paradise... a hell of a place

GROUP SHOW, ANNA PAPPAS GALLERY

Check out The Sisters Hayes new installation- 'Shadowland' currently in a new group exhibition at Anna Pappas Gallery.

paradise...a hell of a place presents eleven Australian and international artists seeking the contemporary relevance of a word that has been reconceived perpetually throughout history. Utilising the diverse media of sculpture, installation, photography, film, animation, drawing and painting, these artists guide us through personal and universal encounters with paradise.

Opening Night | Friday 11 February, 6pm

Guest Speaker | Alexie Glass, Director, Gertrude Contemporary

Featuring work by
Sarah Berners
Paolo Consorti (Milan)
Brad Haylock
Andy Hutson
Deborah Kelly
Christopher Köller
Bonnie Lane
Simon MacEwan
The Sisters Hayes
Natascha Stellmach (Berlin)
Michael Wegerer (Vienna)

Curated by Anna Pappas

WHEN

Opening
Friday 11 February 2011, 6pm

Exhibition
4 Feb - 9 Mar 2011
Tues to Fri 10am - 6pm
Sat 12noon - 6pm

WHERE

Anna Pappas Gallery
2-4 Carlton Street,
Prahran

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"Run away to the Carnival, where circus stars and sideshow queens, poets and daredevils, painters, playwrights, aerialists and food artistes concoct a heady mix of unforgettable entertainment under a handmade starry sky.

From Finucane & Smith, the world's pre-eminent purveyors of provocative variety and intimate spectacle including the award-winning The Burlesque Hour, comes the surreal indoor CARNIVAL OF MYSTERIES. Inspired by some of life's most profound mysteries, this complex, multilayered, seductive and wild artistic experience will leave Festival audiences begging for more!

"45downstairs has been exquisitely transformed by the Sisters Hayes into a nostalgic but timeless world of sideshow and cocktail bar..."- AussieTheatre.com

Overhead, underfoot and throughout four extraordinary intricate sites, the Carnival of Mysteries seduces audiences with the work of 30 unique artists commissioned to respond to the Mysteries of Innocence, Passion, Mercy, Forgiveness and Love." Full Details >

"Each set-piece has been elaborately and carefully crafted to achieve the appearance of nostalgia. It perfectly creates an aura of trickery and intrigue..."- ArtsHub

SUPPORTERS:

Sidney Myer Fund, Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, fortyfivedownstairs, Sofitel Hotel for the Arts, City of Melbourne, Electrolight, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Viponds Paints

WHEN

Festival Season:
6 - 30 October 2010

WHERE

fortyfivedownstairs
Theatre
45 Flinders Lane
MELBOURNE

INFO & TICKETS

Created by Moira Finucane & Jackie Smith

Production Design by
The Sisters Hayes

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A GOOD DEATH is a dark and fascinating exhibition of new work by The Sisters Hayes.

"These Melbourne sisters sure are a talented trio, it must be the gene pool."- Frankie

For one week only viewers were invited to delve into the depths of the Church Crypt, at Saint Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic Church, and discover a world of reliquary, heroism, death and religion.

The Sisters have most faithfully resurrected stories of Martyrdom. Saint Joan of Arc's burning at the stake, Saint Sebastian's death by arrows (and then clubs) and the beautiful Saint Barbara's beheading have been recreated in a dark and captivating series of paintings, video's , performances and installation.

"The multi-dimensional work draws on their expertise, while adding new ventures such as live performance to tell the unpleasant fates of martyrs ,.. the project has allowed this giggly trio to indulge their preference for the darker side of stories."- The Age

SUPPORTERS:

St Mary's Sacred Music Centre | Rose Chong Costumes
Commissioned & developed by Next Wave through Kickstart 2009. An RMIT Union supported presentation.

WHEN

A GOOD DEATH
Sun 16 - Sun 23 May 2010

WHERE

The Crypt at
St Mary Star of the Sea
33 Howard Street
West Melbourne

CREATIVE TEAM

Creators
The Sisters Hayes
Associate Producer
Lara Thoms

Lighting Bronwyn Pringle
Sound Angela Grant

Production Assistants
Brendan Harwood, Adam Tavella, Carol Xu

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From the house of Finucane & Smith, the frenetic creative team that brought you The Burlesque Hour, Gotharama and Salon de Dance, comes a new piece of writing that will sweep you up in its terrible undertow, THE FLOOD. Patrick White Playwright Award winning playwright Jackie Smith has crafted an Australian Gothic, and with a team of exceptional artists, who have between them won nearly 20 theatre awards, she will let the water level rise and the truth float to the surface at La Mama.

Maude Davey & Caroline Lee play out the mesmerising disturbing friction between bereft sisters in one sleepless night, through alcohol, memories of their dead father and no way to get out. Shirley Cattunar is their mother, who can't or won't remember.

THE FLOOD brings together 10 extraordinary Melbourne artists who are renowned for their nuanced rendering of the human condition.

PERFORMANCES

THE FLOOD
at La Mama, Carlton
December 3-20 2009

CREATIVE TEAM

Written by Jackie Smith
Directed by Laurence Strangio.

With Shirley Cattunar, Caroline Lee and Maude Davey

Designers
The Sisters Hayes (Set & Costume), Bronwyn Pringle (Lighting) and Natasha Anderson (Sound)

Design assistant
Jacquie Holland