Bay The Artist

BAY is an Adelaide based artist, whose work explores her Tongan heritage which was unknown to her until she began to research her family tree, discovering a family she never knew existed.

Mental health also has a strong influence on her easily recognisable abstract style, focusing on identity and the ever present question - ‘where do I belong?’ She is proud to support Headspace, Australia's Youth Mental Health Foundation, by donating a percentage of each sale.

BAY has collaborated with Madame Flavour Tea for the packaging of their Melbourne Morning Blend, sold nationally. Last year she was awarded an artist residency at Glenside Health Services, where she created a new body of work exhibited for SALA and successfully facilitated art therapy classes for their rural and remote consumers. With each new collection, she works to resolve her identity as a Polynesian woman, and better understand the complexities of mental illness in today’s society.

2020. Kupesi in Colour, Nexus Arts
2019 Mindful, Royal Adelaide Hospital
2019 Inheritance, Nexus Arts
2018 Pasifika, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide
2018 From Within, Raj House, Adelaide CBD
2017 Untiltled SALA exhibition, Nutrition Republic, Unley, SA
2017 Mind Maps, Adelaide Fringe Solo Exhibition, Hughes Gallery, Fullarton, SA
2017 Victor Harbor Art Show, Victor Harbour, SA
2016 Little Treasures, Pepper Street Arts Centre, Magill, SA
2016 Korea-Australia Art Prize, Korea Australia Arts Foundation, Sydney, NSW, Finalist
2016 Albert Park College Art Show, Albert Park College, Port Melbourne, VIC, Finalist
2016 The Mission to Seafarers Exhibition, Mission to Seafarers, Docklands, VIC, Finalist
2016 RAW Melbourne presents VERVE, Melbourne Pavillion, Flemington, VIC
2016 Ginger’s Coffee Studio, Goodwood, SA
2016 The Secret Art of Life, SALA Festival, The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, North Adelaide, SA
2016 SALA Festival ‘Second Nature’, Mâché Co-working Space, Adelaide, SA
2016 The Advertiser Contemporary Art Prize Finalist’s Exhibition, Keith Murdoch House, Adelaide, SA, Finalist
2016 RAW Adelaide Presents TREND, The Producers ...