Moira Hayes: DOWN BAD
Organized Through SATELLiTE Project Space
Department of Visual Arts, Western University
Moira Hayes, 16 Patch Quilt, Cotton, 70″ x 40″
DOWN BAD
Moira Hayes, MFA Candidate
August 18 – 29, 2026
Reception: August 20, 5 – 7pm
TAP Centre for Creativity, London
DOWN BAD is the culmination of local artist Moira Hayes’ MFA thesis work. Through multi-media collage, sculptures, text pieces, and quilts, Hayes invites the viewer into their Faustian Bargain narrative, a maddening journey to make a deal with the Devil. The exhibition explores how comfort fits into a life without financial stability, a steady job, home ownership, and mental well-being. While the mission is set, the viewer is challenged to determine what the true value of a human soul is, and who the Devil might actually be.
Moira Hayes, Checking the Mirror, text, 56″ x 40″
About the Artist
Moira Hayes is a Canadian artist from London, Ontario. Hayes’ work utilizes a queer lens to explore the intersection of the canon of fine art and the inherent silliness of existence. By combining the historic canon with post digital media, Hayes poses the question of who determines ‘good’ or ‘bad’ art, and why (or if) the answer matters.
Moira Hayes, ISpy, detail, HTV on canvas
About SATELLiTE Project Space
SATELLiTE Project Space (est. 2015) is a dynamic partnership between two significant London, Ontario arts institutions: Fanshawe College’s Fine Art Program and Western University’s Department of Visual Arts, School for Advanced Studies in the Arts & Humanities/SASAH and Faculty of Information and Media Studies/FIMS.
The mandate of SATELLiTE Project Space is to provide flexible space for educationally-supported projects, collaborations, and experiments in the arts and culture. SATELLiTE provides learning opportunities and mentorship for art students in London: in education, curatorial work, exhibition and event programming, and arts administration. It also invites the larger community to experience and participate in these programs through community partnerships. SATELLiTE is a testing ground for new projects and collaborations, programs, residencies, artworks, and performances.
SATELLiTE continues to program mobile on-site exhibitions at partner spaces, like TAP Centre for Creativity.
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TAP Centre for Creativity
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Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday: 12 – 5pm
Accessibility: TAP is accessible.
Image Descriptions:
1. A fabric quilt is held up in a forest. It has 8 patches on the side facing the viewer.
2. Accessible text: A paranoid run-on sentence about worrying that oneself might be the devil.
3. Among graphic clipart, including dynamite, arrows, and smiley faces, one face has drawn-on devil horns.
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