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Collections

National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Victoria

Australian Parliament House

Art Bank

Heide Museum of Modern Art

State Library of Victoria

Monash University Collection

Victorian Arts Centre

Albury Regional Gallery

City of Benalla

City of Darebin

City of Melbourne

City of Yarra

Gippsland Art Gallery

Gold Coast City Art Gallery

Latrobe Regional Art Gallery

Latrobe University

Melbourne University

Monash Gallery of Art

Legal Aid

Queensland University

Tweed River Art Gallery

And numerous private collections in Australia and overseas

Commissions

2018 – In the Valley – commissioned to make new work for the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery in response to the Mornington Peninsula for art+climate=change 2019

Selected Awards/Grants/

2018 – The Nillumbik Art Prize awarded by Mark Feary director of Getrude Contemporary Montsalvat

2017 – The Athenaeum Club Visual Art Research Award – awarded by judges Max Delaney director of Australian Centre Contemporary Art, Juan Ford artist and Professor Jon Cattapan artist on behalf of the Athenaeum Club

2017 – Another Look: Contemporary Artists and the Collection – commissioned to make new work responding to the Town Hall Gallery Collection

2016 – National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Award – awarded through the Victorian College of the Arts

2015 –  A Crafted History – commissioned to create work in association with a Maroondah Council area community

2014 – Cultural Threads – commissioned to create new work with the City of Greater Dandenong community for their Cultural Threads Festival

2012 – Arts Development Project Grant – Arts Victoria

2012 – William Bowness Photography Prize – Honourable mention–Monash Gallery of Art

2010 – Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award – Highly commended – Gold Coast City Art Gallery

2010 – Arts Development – presentation grant – Arts Victoria

2009 – Skills and Development Grant – Australia Council for the Arts

2008 – Arts Victoria Development – creation grant – Arts Victoria

2006 – The Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture – Tweed River Art Gallery

2005 – National Photographic Purchase Award – Albury Regional Gallery

Selected Reviews/Publications

2018 – Hayes, Siri, Eucalyptus meets indigo in Kanazawa – with gold leaf, Garland Magazine

2016 – Steph Harmon, 21st July 2016, Bob Dylan, high fashion and ‘human folly’: 30 years of Melbourne Photography, The Guardian

2014 – Allen, Christopher 15th February 2014, Sea of Dreams explores artists portrayal of Port Phillip Bay, The Australian, page 4.

2013 – Rainforth, Dylan, March 27 2013, The space: What’s happening in art, The Age

2013 – Phe Luxford, 25th June 2013, Siri Hayes: Back to Nature Scene, The Melbourne Review

2013 – Rainforth, Dylan, October 24 2012Football Art, The Age, page

2013 – Rainforth, Dylan, November 28, 2012, Natural style, The Age, page

2013 – Backhouse, Megan, April 21, 2012, Your weekend: In the galleries, The Age,

2012 – 101 Contemporary Australian Artists, Kelly Gellatly, published by the National Gallery of Victoria

2012 – Rob McHaffie,

2012 -The World is our lounge room, Stamm

2010 – Look – Contemporary Australian Photography, Dr Anne Marsh

2010 – Rainforth, Dylan, Sept 20th 2010, The Arts Friday, The Age

2009 – Twin gardens of artistic Eden depart bitter taste, Robert Nelson, The Age

2008 – Water Francis Hodgson, Prix Pictet, teNeus

2005 – Landscape and the renewal of social space, Kyla McFarlene, Photofile

2005 – CCP renewed, Chris Reid, Realtime 68

2005 – Paen to the noble weed, Robert Nelson, The Age

Victorian College of the Arts

Monash University Church Hill campus

Victoria University

Melbourne Festival of Ideas 2012 Festival of Ideas in the panel discussion on Contemporary Visions and Critiques of the Landscape

Residencies

2018 – Kanazawa Yuwaku Sousaku no Mori Center for Crafts And Culture – Kanazawa, Japan – self-initiated residency

2014 – Heritage Hill, Dandenong as part of their Cultural Threads textiles festival

2010 – Australia Council Barcelona Studio – Barcelona, Spain

2008 – Monash University Museum of Art residency at Monash Churchill Campus

Lecturing, Tutoring & Technician Work

Monash University sessional lecturer – 2009 – present

Victorian College of the Arts casual lecturer – 2005, 2015, 2018

Victorian College of the Arts photography technician 2003-2004

Swinburne TAFE tutor 2000 – 2006

Guest lectures/Artist talks

RMIT

Education

2015-2017 – Master of Fine Art – Victorian College of the Arts

2001 – Graduate Diploma of Visual Art – Victorian College of the Arts

1996 – 1998 – Bachelor of Fine Art – photography – Victorian College of the Arts

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018 – Loading Carlton Library Light Boxes

2017 – Loading – Sutton Projects, Melbourne

2017 – Botanical Backdrop – Stockroom Kyneton, Kyneton

2017 – Holding Still – Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne

2013 – Back to Nature Scene – Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

2012 – All you knit is Love – Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

2010 – Aquatic Listening (in collaboration with music composer Eve Duncan) –  GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney

2010 – Dredge (in collaborations with music composer Eve Duncan)  – Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

2010 – Listening portraits (in collaborations with music composer Eve Duncan) – Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell

2010 – Listening portraits (in collaboration with music composer Eve Duncan) – Gallerysmith, Melbourne

2009 – En plein air – Gallerysmith, Melbourne

2008 – Landscapes – Switchback Gallery, Churchhill

2008 – Landscapes – University of Sydney Gallery, Sydney

2008 – Transition Portraits – Gallerysmith, Melbourne

2005 – Lyric Theatre – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

2004 – Lyric Theatre – Benalla Regional Gallery, Benalla

2003 – Farm – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

2003 – Feed – TCB, Melbourne

2001 – Walking Home- West Space, Melbourne

2001 – The Lost Child – public installation of imagery in bus shelters in Bulleen & Templestowe, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 – In the Valley – Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

2018 – Nillumbik Prize – Montsalvat

2017 – Framing Nature – McClelland Sculture Park and Gallery

2017 – Another Look: Contemporary Artists and the Collection – Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne

2017 – An Unorthodox Flow of Images – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

2017 – Revealing Identity: the Collections of La Trobe University- Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo

2017 – 9 x 5 – VCA Gallery, Melbourne

2017 – Mixed Tape – Stockroom Kyneton, Kyneton

2016 – Masters exhibition – Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

2016 – Sanctuary – Glen Eira Gallery, Melbourne

2016 – Climarte Poster Project –  various public locations throughout the City of Melbourne

2016 – Mr Favisar – Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne

2016 – Unsettled Bodies – Stockroom Kyneton, Kyneton

2016 – Without end – Kings ARI, Melbourne

2015 – Terra Australis – Galerie Pavlova, Berlin, Germany

2015 – A Crafted History – REALM Art Space, Melbourne

2015 – For Future Reference – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

2015 – 21st Century Heide: the Collection since 2000 – Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

2015 – EARTH MATTERS: Contemporary photographers in the landscape – Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

2015 – Conflicted: Adversaries in Art – Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne

2014 – Sea of Dreams – Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Melbourne

2014 – Formality -Trocadero ARI, Melbourne

2014 – Khem – Strange Neighbour, Melbourne

2013 – Future Primitive  – Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

2013 – Melbourne Now – National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2013 – MAKE-UP: The painted face in contemporary photography – Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

2013 – The Shock of the Nude – Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale

2013 – Northern Lights – Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne

2012 – Negotiating this World: Contemporary Australian Art – National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2012 – A Curious Nature: the landscape as theatre in contemporary photography and new media – Geelong Gallery, Geelong

2012 – I would breathe water  – Sarah Scout Gallery, Melbourne

2011 – Boundary Line – TarraWarra Museum, Healesville

2011 – The New Arcadia – Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore

2010 – Stormy weather – the landscape in contemporary Australian photography – National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2010 – Exhibition of the Monash Collection  – The Australian Club, Melbourne

2009 – Prix Pictet – Palais de Tokyo, France

2009 – Prix Pictet – Dubai International Finance Centre, Saudi Arabia

2009 – International Festival of Photography – Lodz Arts Centre, Poland

2008 – Tickle attack – Backlight Trienniale – Exhibition Centre Tri, Tampere, Finland

2008 – Recent acquisitions – University of Queensland, Brisbane

2008 – Quiet Earth – Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

2008 – A strange façade – Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale

2008 – Where in the Woods – VCA Gallery, Melbourne

2007 – Moving Galleries – Connex metropolitan train system, Melbourne

2007 – Echoe – Deloitte, Melbourne

2007 – Olive Cotton Award – Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillimbah

2006 – Valid editions – Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne

2006 – Reverie – Switchback Gallery, Churchill

2006 – Inhabitation – Australian Galleries, Melbourne

2005 – A portable model of… – Latrobe Regional Gallery, Sale

2005 – Haunted – Kings, Melbourne

2005 – National Photographic Purchase Award – Albury City Art Gallery, Albury

2005 – A portable model of…. – Plimsol Gallery, Hobart

2005 – Outdooring – Gallery Senkukan, Tokyo

2005 – Badlands – The Wedding Circle, Sydney

2004 – Address Book – Bus Gallery, Melbourne

2004 – City of Perth Photomedia Award – Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth

2004 – Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award -Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast

2004 – The Woods – Kings, Melbourne

2003 – Stella – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

2003 – Darebin-La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize – Bundoora Homestead Art Center, Melbourne

2003 – National Photographic Purchase Award – Albury City Art Gallery, Albury

2003 – The Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award -Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast

2003 – Bloom – SPAN Galleries, Melbourne

2002 – Contemporary Australian Portraits – The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

2002 – Love at First Sight – Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

2002 – B-Sides – Bus, Melbourne