Image by Kate Rossin for Made in the Middle 

Hayley is an artist and activist with a focus on socially engaged and sustainable projects, methods and materials. Her background is in costume for theatre, and her education in Visual Arts and Contemporary Jewellery.

She creates wearable art from textile, metal and is currently focused on environmentally positive materials and practices. Her work aims to connect us with our environment, with our stories, our sense of self and with each other.

Hayley is a Senior lecturer in Costume Design & Making at Nottingham Trent University. She is an experienced costume designer,  supervisor and maker, and finds great inspiration from developing these skills in her students.

Outside of NTU she runs creative workshops with people of various ages.

Hayley’s research aims are to explore sustainable practice within the arts and arts education, both from an environmental perspective and exploring creative practice as an essential tool in sustaining ones well-being. She firmly believes in the potential and necessity for artists to be the instigators of a more sustainable, equitable post-capitalist society.

Hayley has a studio on the outskirts of Nottingham, available by appointment to see work or discuss commissions or projects, please email hayley@freeformity.com.

Freeformity was previously Hayley Beckley Ltd.