Wells Street Studio operates as a working studio for Hayley in art, design, production and education. It is a small home-based studio located on Gadigal land in Newtown, Sydney.

Wells Street Studio offers small focused workshops to adults, teenagers and children in both hand-building and wheel work, and particularly enjoys working through final year major works with students offering specialist construction and glaze technology advice and support.

If you would like to collaborate or speak about a commissioned project or would like private tuition, please feel free to contact Hayley.

Hayley is an artist, designer and educator who grew up in Orange on Wiradjuri land and is currently living and working on Gadigal land in Newtown, Sydney. She has a BA Fine Arts from UNSW Art & Design (then COFA). Upon completion of this degree, Hayley spent time working and travelling overseas before returning to Sydney to undertake a BA Interior and Spatial Design at UTS, graduating with first-class honours.

In 2010 Hayley co-founded Smith and Carmody, a multidisciplinary design partnership working on projects such as Cornersmith in Marrickville and Brickfields in Chippendale before leaving the business to focus on other creative endeavours.

In the last decade, Hayley’s fine art and design background has progressed to a practice centred around ceramics. From 2014 to 2020 she worked as a ceramics technician and tutor at Pine Street Creative Arts Centre (City of Sydney) - overseeing the technical running of the studio and teaching a large number of the adult and children’s workshops. During this time Hayley assisted on several glaze technology workshops and masters workshops.

In 2018 Hayley worked as a tutor at Makerspace & Co in Marrickville teaching Introductory workshops under the guidance of Xavier Modoux and assisting on several Master throwing and glaze technology workshops with Anthony Brink.

Presently Hayley conducts workshops and from her home studio Wells Street Studio in Newtown, where she teaches a range of classes in both wheel throwing and hand-building whilst working on developing works for exhibition and domestic wares for sale.