Moorland Productions
Founded in 1994 to showcase the creative work of Kenneth G. Hay, and Seetha A., Moorland Productions works across a variety of media including painting, sculpture, installation, print, photography, video and sound.
The work produced explores different cultural, historical and linguistic themes through stylistically discrete forms and are planned, created and worked on by both artists, often on the same canvas using a distributed artistic practice between their two studios in London and SW France, where they also run an annual international Art Festival (LAF: Larroque Art Festival).
Moorland Productions has exhibited in over a hundred international Exhibitions and Art Fairs, including Biennales in Venice (1995,2003/4, 2010), Miami (2019,2022), Tokyo (2021), London (2020,2013), Stockholm (2014), Busan (2014, 2010, 2008), Berlin (1996), New York (2013), Gyumri, Armenia (2012), Incheon (2010), as well as individual and group shows in The National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta (2010), Galerie Nová Sín, Prague (2011-12), Galerie Cerná Línká, Brno, The Czech Centre for Experimental Theatre (2000), The Bulgarian Cultural Institute, London (2013), Coohaus Gallery New York (2013), The Georgian National Museum of History Tbilisi (2012), The Fondació Joan & Pilar Miró, Mallorca, Galerie Skolska Prague (2011), AKOS Centre, Yerevan (2011), Royal Dublin Society, Ireland (2010), The Today Museum, Beijing (2008), Xiamen Art & Residency Centre China (2008), Arts Centre, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (2007), Camelot Gallery, Cracow (2005), Goëthe Institut Cracow (2005), Galerie Pryzmat, Cracow (2004), New York Public Library (2002), Tripp Gallery Melbourne, Australia (1999), Living Arts Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (1999), Presentation House, Vancouver (1995) and others.
Their video “Miracle” was selected for the “Olympic One Minutes” promotional DVD for the 2008 Olympics in China (July 2005) and was exhibited in Beijing in June 2008, and then toured to Shanghai, Lisbon, Zagreb, Paramaribo, Brussels, São Paolo, Istanbul, Amsterdam and Gröningen. It was also was selected for exhibition in The Stedelijk Museum (NL) and toured to 30 museums/galleries in NL and around the world (2013).
Kenneth G. Hay
Born 1955 Inverness
Education
- Inverness Royal Academy 1967-73
- The University of Leeds 1973-77 – B.A Hons. in Fine Art
- Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy – (1978-80)
- University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, M.A. in Visual Art (1980-82)
- (Thesis: “The Concept of Transcendence: German Idealist & Materialist Aesthetics Baumgarten – Adorno”)
- University College of Wales, Ph.D in “Italian Materialist Aesthetics 1860-1960”, (1982-90) (“Neapolitan Hegelians to Galvano Della Volpe”)
Seetha A.
Education
- Diploma Leeds College of Art (1991-94)
- Delhi Academy of Fine Art and Member of Forum for Independent Film and Video makers, New Delhi (1995-9)
- Polytechnic of Central London/Humboldt Institute, Berlin, Higher Diploma in Translation Studies (1985-89).
- December 15, 2022
