Based in South East Queensland and recognised as high profile professional public artists, Rick Hayward
and Emily Devers have frequently collaborated as Frank & Mimi since 2011, and have been invited to create
contemporary large scale artworks across Australia and Internationally.
Rick Hayward is now translating 15 years of traditional sign writing and 8 years of collaborative public art
into a contemporary studio and public art practice. With a reductive visual approach and environmental and
anthropological attentiveness Hayward explores the space between craftsman and artist, investigating
notions of the human condition as it exists in flux between natural and built environments.
Emily Devers is a mid-career Contemporary Artist who is driven to combine the faithful representation
of objects and environments through realism, and the subsequent abstraction of these through abstract
mark making. Devers draws direct reference from her surroundings, often using imagery captured on film
and collaging these with digital images to highlight the disconnect between actual and representational -
experienced and remembered.
Together, Hayward and Devers have created engaging large scale public artworks for communities around
the world including South East Queensland, Sydney, Wollongong, Adelaide, Melbourne, New Zealand, Hawaii,
California, Mexico and Morocco, stimulating imaginations and conversations in thier wake.
Select Clients
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Brisbane City Council
Gold Coast City Council
Lulu Lemon
Balter Brewers
Pacific Fair
ARIA
Queensland Rail
Westfield
Robina Town Centre
Press
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2019 Peppermint Magazine
2019 Atlas Magazine - Etihad Air
2018 Tiger Tails - Tiger Air
2017 Spaces - Frankie Magazine
2017 No Cure Magazine
2016 West End Magazine
2014 No Cure Magazine
Public Speaking
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2019 Living Edge ‘Design Stories’
2018 PechaKutcha 'Art-What is it good for?'
2016 AGDA 'First Five Out'
2016 Creative Mornings, Brisbane Powerhouse
2015 The Design Conference, Brisbane Powerhouse
Group Exhibitions
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2019 ‘Trespass’ - Onwards Studio, Newcastle
2019 ‘Divergence’ - The Third Quarter, Brisbane
2018 'Less is more' - 1AMSF, San Francisco
2016 'Louder than letters' - Goodspace, Sydney
2016 'Fast Plant' - First Coat Studios, Toowoomba
2014 BARI Festival - Brisbane
2013 'Corner Store' - The Box, Brisbane
Jack Birtles Photograph