Quality presents the latest iteration of 'Eating New York' by sculptor Dr Glen Hayward, in collaboration with @PAULNACHE, Aotearoa NZ. Following on from installations at Sydney Contemporary, Canberra Art Biennale, Aotearoa Art Fair and City Gallery Wellington, we are excited to bring these conceptual carvings to the space for the first two weekends of October. Glen Hayward’s work blends carving, painting and conceptualism to snare the viewer in a standoff around what is real or illusionary, art or not art, profound or absurd. Hayward’s work is based on his travels to some of the world’s major galleries. Rather than profound art experiences, Hayward walked away with bad photographs of fixings such as the gold drinking fountain and the exit doors at The Museum of Modern Art. He later remakes these objects out of wood in his Whanganui studio. Hayward is a wayward art viewer and, in many ways, also a wayward maker of art. His work constantly forces us to look and think again. It offers a kind of everyday mysticism, challenging us to trust in or doubt the validity of the objects or experiences that we encounter in the here and now—especially inside the art gallery but also in the world beyond it. "I work at the intersection of carving and painting, I find all the world of things endlessly fascinating and potentially meaningful. This way of making solves two tensions, one my tendency to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of things, the time it takes to carve things limits the number of things I can make. The second is more process based, it acknowledges that selection of the 'thing' reflects a way of understanding the world, as the ready-made enacts. Although the world is fecund the mere presentation of it shows - an angle not all angles. To make a ready-made incites a value for the thing depicted, it permits a physical understanding of the world through making and parallels this through viewing." Glen Hayward was born in 1974 Whanganui, Aotearoa NZ and completed his doctoral dissertation at Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts in 2005.