OVERVIEW
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS.
1981-83Diploma of Fine Art, Ballarat University
1984Graduate Diploma in Education, Ballarat University.
1989Graduate Diploma of Art/Design (Distinction), University of Tasmania.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE.
1985-88Art Teacher, Ballarat Grammar School
1990Lecturer, School of Art and Design, University ofTasmania.
1992Art / Design Teacher, Rosny College, Hobart, Tasmania.
1992Guest Lecturer, Dept of Fine Art, University of Newcastle, NSW.
1993–97 Rip Curl Artist / Designer
1993Artist / Lecturer in Residence, University of NSW, Sydney.
1994Artist in Residence, Morongo College, Geelong Victoria
1995-97 Head Designer Rip Curl
1997-99 QSD (Quiksilver Denim) designer.
1999-05Quiksilver and Roxy Design and Development Manager (Clothing & Accessories)
2005–07Roxy Product Manager (Clothing & Accessories)
2007-09Director Quiksilver Asia Pacific Product and Sourcing
2009-11Vice President Quiksilver Global Research & Development
2011-13 Senior Vice President Quiksilver Asia Pacific Product and Sourcing
2013- 15Director Animal UK
2015-2023 Executive Vice President Global Product & Marketing PacSafe HK
2023-Full time Artist
1984 – Current. ARTIST
Phil is an Australian artist whose diverse practice spans painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. Since the early 1980s, he has exhibited professionally both nationally and internationally, with work held in public and private collections from Japan and the USA to Lithuania.
Deeply influenced by both Western and Asian popular cultures, his 13 years living in Hong Kong helped shape a distinctive style that fuses modernist structure with the boldness of pop art. Central to Phil’s work is an ongoing fascination with symbolic imagery—particularly the recurring figure of the ‘Dog’, which began as a social commentary on Australian suburbia and has become a hallmark of his visual language.
In parallel with his fine art practice, Phil spent 18 years as an artist and designer in the global surf industry, working with Rip Curl and Quiksilver. This experience further deepened his connection to ocean culture and the graphic intensity of commercial design.
Phil completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Tasmania and later lectured there for several years—an experience that left a lasting imprint on his artistic direction. It was during this formative period in Hobart that he developed an enduring fascination with the thylacine, not only as an extinct species but as a powerful symbol of loss, myth, and resilience within the Australian psyche. Over time, the thylacine has become a kind of personal totem in his work: part cautionary tale, part ghost story, part emblem of wildness lost.
More recently, his focus has turned to the thylacine, not merely an extinct animal, it became a symbol of myth, loss, and resilience in his exploration of memory, wildness, and identity.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS.
1989Red China Suite, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart, Tasmania.
1990Life Forms, Entrepot Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Tasmania.
1990Avago Gallery, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart, Tasmania.
1991A Racontuer’s Meandering, Arthouse Inc, Launceston, Tasmania.
1991If You Go Out In The World Today You’re Sure Of A Big Surprise,
Eltham Gallery , Melbourne, Victoria.
1994Recent Work, Ryrie St Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria.
2002Phil Hayes, QDOS, Lorne, Victoria.
2002Recent Works, Convent Gallery, Daylesford, Victoria
2004Recent Works, Convent Gallery, Daylesford, Victoria
2009Australese, ufoArtgallery, Soho, Hong Kong
2010Surfboards and other icons, UFO Art Gallery, Soho, Hong Kong
2011101, Damina Gallery, Soho, Hong Kong
2016Talking Animals, Art Supermarket, Soho, Hong Kong
2025The Bounty Years, SOL Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS.
1985-2024: 190 national and international group exhibitions, including the following:
Sculpture 85, World Trade Centre, Melbourne, Victoria
1st International Miniature Art Annual, Del Belo Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
A Roar Christmas, Roar Studios, Melbourne, Victoria.
Dodd, Hayes, Hoffman. S.M.B. Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria.
2nd International Miniature Art Annual, Del Belo Gallery,Toronto, Canada
8th M.P.A.C. Print Prize, Mornington Peninsular Art Centre, Victoria.
3rd International Miniature Art Annual, Del Belo Gallery,Toronto, Canada.
Freemantle Print Award Exhibition, Freemantle, W.A.
10 Artists, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
Swan Hill Print & Drawing Show, Swan Hill Gallery of Contemporary Art, Vic.
9th M.P.A.C. Print Prize, Mornington Peninsular Art Centre, Victoria.
Instant, First Draft (WEST ) inc, Sydney, N.S.W.
Local Light-A Tasmanian View, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart.
One of Each, Marion Nicholl Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Canada.
Alternative Situations for Contemporary Printmaking, The Print Club, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Eros - Internationale Exlibriswedstrijd 1991, StedelijkMuseum, Sint-Niklass, Belgium
11th Mini Print International, Cadaques, Barcelona, Spain.
11th Mini Print International, Honolulu University, Hawaii, USA.
Intergrafia ‘91
