Hayden Youlley Design – We Want It.

By Benjamen Judd

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So we are very aware that now is the time that we should be stocking up on artisanal chocolates in the shape of something that comes from a chooks bum that gets delivered by a magic rabbit. And we’ll get to that. But right now we’re more interested in getting our hands on some decent homewares that are going to look much better than the swole guts we’ll have in three days time due to over eating.

Hayden Youlley, of the eponymous Hayden Youlley Design, earned his stripes at The College of Fine Arts, UNSW. Without any prior experience, he boldly chose to major in ceramics and object design. And he clearly did the right thing with that because one look at his range shows not only a level of skill that can come from hard work but the rarer aesthetic ability of being able to produce unique, functional design.

Influenced by an appreciation of life’s vast and diverse experiences and the importance of growing and learning from these, Hayden uses the lightness, translucency, mimicry and texture of porcelain and to push the material and his skills to their very breaking point to find a convergence of crafting and concept, in perfect synchronicity.

Hayden Youlley Design is available at Craft ACT in London Circuit.