{"title":"Paintings","description":"\u003cp\u003ePainting is where Phil Hayes's most iconic imagery lives. The dog, the thylacine, the Australian landscape rendered in bold colour and modernist pop energy that is immediately, unmistakably his. From lone dogs in open fields to roaring thylacines in dark landscapes, each painting carries the layered symbolism and social commentary that has defined Phil's voice as an artist for over four decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased in Melbourne and exhibited in galleries across Australia and internationally, Phil brings together influences from Australian suburbia, Tasmanian wilderness, and the wider currents of Western and Asian popular culture, all meeting on canvas.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal paintings by Phil Hayes. 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From 1888 to 1909, the Tasmanian government offered a cash bounty—£1 per adult and 10 shillings per pup—for every thylacine killed. More than 2,000official payments were made, and the true toll was likely much higher.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phil Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48810623041793,"sku":null,"price":2999.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9273\/9329\/files\/thebountyyears.jpg?v=1779069229"},{"product_id":"suburban-dream","title":"Suburban Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003eA suburban scene interrupted by possibility. 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None of them alone can prove the thylacine still exists, but together, they begin to feel whole. I lived and worked in Tasmania for years, and I know how strong the pull of this creature is. This piece is as much about the thylacine as it is about us and what we choose to remember, what we refuse to forget, and what we still hope might be true.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phil Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48810625138945,"sku":null,"price":6600.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9273\/9329\/files\/asonetheysaw.jpg?v=1779069769"},{"product_id":"benjamin","title":"Benjamin","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work depicts Benjamin, the last known thylacine, who died in captivity in 1936. Painted behind a veil of chicken wire, he becomes both a memory and a warning. The wire symbolises confinement, a cage not just of metal, but of human neglect and forgetting. Benjamin snarls not in rage, but in resistance, a ghost of the wild we chose not to protect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phil Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48810629726465,"sku":null,"price":5500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9273\/9329\/files\/Benjamin.jpg?v=1779070325"},{"product_id":"monument-eaglehawk-neck","title":"Monument Eaglehawk Neck","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet against a vividly rendered Tasmanian coastline, the thylacine appears as a life-sized monument—both present and impossibly absent. Elevated on a plinth, it reads like a museum relic misplaced in the landscape it once inhabited. The work balances realism with quiet fiction, reflecting on extinction, human intervention, and the unsettling calm of imagining a creature that should no longer exist, yet still lingers in collective memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phil Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48810888003841,"sku":null,"price":3200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9273\/9329\/files\/monumentateaglehawkneck.jpg?v=1779071362"},{"product_id":"the-trainee","title":"The Trainee","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis painting reimagines the thylacine not as a ghost of extinction, but as part of modern life—alive, trained, and working alongside humans as a police dog. It’s a sharp, alternate-history moment that asks what could have happened if we hadn’t wiped them out. Blending realism with quiet irony, the piece turns loss into possibility—and makes the absence feel personal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phil Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48810943709441,"sku":null,"price":899.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9273\/9329\/files\/thetrainee.jpg?v=1779071500"},{"product_id":"thylacine-in-landscape","title":"Thylacine In Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, remains one of the most iconic and enigmatic creatures in history. European settlers, both captivated and intimidated by the animal, launched relentless hunting campaigns that ultimately pushed the species to the brink of extinction. Within a mere century of European arrival, the thylacine had almost vanished entirely. 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