Murals, illustration and paintings by Hayden Dewar

Hayden Dewar is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist and muralist with over 20 years of experience. He is best known for his vibrant, surreal murals, and also creates studio paintings and illustrations in a similar style. His murals can be found throughout Naarm and beyond, turning public spaces, schools, shopfronts and any surface that comes his way into imaginative, otherworldly scenes.

Much of his work reads like a chapter book in an ongoing story about a strange world inhabited by his signature characters, the Solarquins: guardians of nature and seekers of harmony, painted alongside local native plants, animals and mementos of history or a place.

Much of Hayden’s work is completed for LGA councils. For more about this please see this detailed info on “Council, school and community murals”

Large-scale and commercial murals

Hayden paints murals at many different scales, from courtyard walls to 100-metre hoardings to an 18-meter-high water tower. Hayden is available for large-scale commercial commissions: murals for brands, businesses, property developers on building facades and anything in-between. His clients include Tennis Australia, Victoria University, Yarra Trams, Yarra Energy Foundation, Globird Energy, AusNet Services, Dimmeys Stores, the Red Cross, ICAN and the Royal Children’s Hospital.

Some of Hayden’s larger walls:

• Watering Werribee, A water themed mural painted on the 18 m high Werribee water tower
• Work, Play, Connect, Cheltenham (City of Kingston): a two-wall project at Jean Street Reserve
• Tree of Knowledge, Cobblebank (City of Melton), 7.5 m × 48 m
• Zero Carbon Merri-bek, Coburg (Merri-bek Council), 7 m × 42 m
• Australian Open mural, a 100-metre hoarding for Tennis Australia
• Metro Tunnel mural, a 100-metre collaborative wall in Kensington
• The Dimmeys mural, 50 metres long, for the stores’ 150th anniversary

Council, public-art and school murals

Hayden has completed mural projects for almost every council in Naarm, and paints murals for primary and secondary schools, including Thomastown Meadows, St Brendan’s in Flemington, Viewbank Primary school, St Jude’s in Scoresby and Hallam. Most of these school murals are designed around each school’s emblem and local wildlife. He has also painted murals for libraries, such as Reading is Magic in Sunbury, and for cafés, restaurants and private homes.

Based in Naarm/Melbourne, working across Melbourne and is also available for regional Victoria, interstate and international commissions.

Illustration and paintings

Alongside murals, Hayden produces illustration for advertising and publishing, concept art and storyboards for film and TV, album covers and animation, and paintings for exhibitions and private commissions.

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