Press & Publications

Books, selected press and video 2006–2025

Video

Air, Saint Kentigern College, 2013 — installation time-lapse, 5 min. Hung above the reception of the College’s MacFarlan Centre; commissioned by the Parents & Friends Association for the College’s 60th Jubilee.

His own books

2014

Ray Haydon Sculpture

Essay by Laura Howard, foreword by Warwick Brown. Sanderson Contemporary. ISBN 978-0-473-29586-8

A survey of the work to that point, including the first carbon fibre pieces. Out of print.

2020

Re-orient: Recent Sculpture by Ray Haydon

Essay by Laura Howard, photographs by Sam Hartnett. Sanderson Contemporary. Paperback, 64 pp

Published alongside the 2020 exhibition Re-orient.

Anthologies

2017

TWENTY / TWENTY: 20 Artists / 20 Writers

Sanderson Contemporary. Hardcover, 178 pp. ISBN 978-0-473-40370-6

Twenty gallery artists, each portfolio set against text by one of twenty New Zealand art writers.

2011

The Artists: 21 Practitioners in New Zealand Contemporary Art c. 2011–2013

Edited by Arron Santry, Kylie Sanderson and Tamara Darragh. Beatnik, 2011

2008

The Artists: A Snapshot of Contemporary New Zealand Art Practice c. 2007–2008

Beatnik

Books he appears in

2009

Seen this Century

Warwick Brown. North Shore City: Random House NZ

2007

New New Zealand Houses

Patrick Reynolds and John Walsh. Random House NZ. Work illustrated, pp. 12 and 164–172

Selected press

2025

Ray Haydon Bronze Commission

Sanderson Contemporary, 6 September 2025

On the installation of Soul, his largest bronze commission.

2025

Ray Haydon: Seventy Five

Exhibition listing. Art Collector Magazine (Australia), November 2025

2024

We sit down with revered sculptor Ray Haydon and his wife Sarah to discuss his creative process, vision, and penchant for collecting chisels

Denizen, 15 November 2024

A studio interview with Ray and Sarah Haydon on process, materials and a lifetime of experimentation.

2024

Ray Haydon: Evolve

Exhibition listing. Art Collector Magazine (Australia), November 2024

2023

Ray Haydon: Dancing with Materials

Interview by Dr Andrew Paul Wood. ArtZone Magazine, Issue 96, pp. 56–57, September 2023

2023

Painting the Air

Home Magazine, p. 21, September 2023

2023

Featured Artist: Ray Haydon

Kate Mullins. NZ House & Garden, September 2023

2022

What I Have Learned: Ray Haydon, Sculptor

Denizen, Autumn 2022

2009

Exploring space and absence

Terry McNamara. The New Zealand Herald, August 2009

2006

Earthy and Lyrical

Art News New Zealand, Spring 2006, p. 128

Artworks featured in

Denizen (Autumn and Spring 2023; Autumn 2022) · The New Zealand Herald (2019, 2017, 2015) · NZ House & Garden (2014, 2012, 2011, 2010) · Homestyle New Zealand (2014) · Home New Zealand (2011, 2008) · Design Folio, Issue 4 (2011) · Urbis, Luxury Issue No. 47 (2009) · NZ Life and Leisure (2008) · New New Zealand Houses, Random House (2007) · Urbis Landscape (2006) · Urbis (2005–06)