Jennifer Hayes

I am a multidisciplinary artist working with ceramics, metal, wood, and textiles. My work revisits the imagery of fables, folklore, and fairy tales to explore memory, desire, and the ways stories are carried through material.

As an avid reader growing up, I often stayed awake long after bedtime, reading by nightlight until night turned into morning, captivated by tales of witches, magic spells, and talking animals. When I wasn’t reading, I was writing and illustrating my own stories. Narrative remains central to my practice, shaping both the ideas and forms that emerge in my work.

My clay practice incorporates slab building, wheel throwing, coiling, and layered surface treatments. I combine these ceramics with found objects, metal, wood, and textiles. By bringing together diverse materials and processes, I create objects that function as vessels for storytelling, revealing what exists in the spaces between memory and imagination, reality and myth.