Since graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from RMIT University, Hayley has been exhibiting in artist-run initiatives, public art spaces and contemporary art spaces throughout Australia.

Projects include 24hr Art-NTCCA projects: immemorial, Jogjakarta Indonesia (2009), interpositions (2007) and Fusion Strength (2005), Tidy Town Paris, Paris France (2008), and Bangun-Abandon Project, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (2008).

Arts residencies include ACME Studios, London UK (2010), Cité Internationale des Arts Studio, Paris France (2008), Hill End AIR Program, NSW (2008) and Lost Generation Space AIR, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (2007-08).

Arts Advocacy roles include: Peer Advisor to Australia Council for the Arts (2009), Coordinator of the artist-run initiative DVAA (2004-07), research assistant for Creative Tropical City: Mapping Darwin’s Creative Industries CDU project (2008-09) and NT correspondent for Art Notes, Art Monthly Australia Magazine (since 2008).

Hayley has been living in Darwin in the tropics of northern Australia since 2004, is currently holding the position of Administrator at 24HR Art-NTCCA and has a love-hate relationship with her 1968 Morris Mini.