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Hayley Meaden

Role

Hayley works as a Senior lecturer in Costume Design & Making at Nottingham Trent University. Using her experience as a costume designer/maker, supervisor and practice-based researcher, she finds great inspiration from developing these skills in students.

Embedding diverse learning materials and supporting students from all backgrounds to have equitable access to learning are to Hayley’s teaching practice. As is encouraging each of her students to find their own creative voice and empowering them to use that voice to create positive change. Hayley is proud to be a Fellow of HEA.

Hayley’s research aims are to explore sustainable and social engaged practice within the arts and arts education, both from an environmental perspective and exploring creative practice as an essential tool in sustaining one’s well-being.

Career overview

Hayley is an applied 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 was in Visual Arts and Contemporary Jewellery.

In her practice, Hayley creates wearable art from varied materials including textiles and 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. Outside of NTU she run creative workshops with people of various ages, particularly enjoying creative workshops in schools.

She firmly believes in the potential and necessity for artists to be the instigators of a more sustainable, equitable post-capitalist society.

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External activity

Hayley is part of the Green Book taskforce in partnership with Nottingham Playhouse. Working to develop sustainable best practice in the theatre industry working with Theatre Green Book principles.

Hayley is also currently studying an MRes in Sustainability and Adaptation at the Centre for Alternative Technology, exploring performative activism as a route to behaviour change around the climate emergency.

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