Name

Gerard Hayes

Culture

Australian

Gender

Male

Birth date

active by 1976

Occupations

Art curator | Art historian

Summary

Worked: Australia (VIC).

Context

Australia

Biography

Gerard Hayes studied Fine Arts at The University of Melbourne 1976–1979. In 1986 he received a Harold Wright scholarship to study in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. Since 1989 he has worked at the State Library of Victoria, at first in the Australian Manuscripts Collection and then in the Pictures Collection. He has published in the area of colonial visual culture, particularly Charles Summers, Ludwig Becker and the Burke and Wills expedition. He curated the Library’s online exhibitions 'Burke and Wills: Terra Incognita' and Eric Thake, and the exhibition of Rick Amor’s watercolours and oil sketches, 'I cover the waterfront' (2010). [Prints, printmaking and Philanthropy, 2019]

Last Updated

21 Jul 2021