Essays
To read Hazel’s recent essays, Three thousand lilies (the hospital years) and The future of art fraud in French and English, double-tap each photo.

Three Thousand Lilies
A collector of my work told me one can’t disappear and spend five years in a psychiatric hospital then come back and say nothing, so I wrote an essay about it.

Le futur
Le futur de la fraude artistique est le futur de n’importe quoi d’autre : les vérités se révèleront ou sera révélées, tard si non tôt.

The future of art fraud is the same as the future of everything else: truths will either out or be outed, later if not sooner.


Dooney, Hazel. 'The future of art fraud', Counterfeit Culture, Griffith Review Edition 79, edited by Carody Culver. 7 February 2023 (pp. 111–117). ISBN: 978-1-922212-80-1

The artist writes a quarterly column for Coagula Art Journal, founded and edited by art critic Mat Gleason.


Dooney, Hazel. 'Broken', The Best Australian Essays 2013, edited by Robert Manne. Published by Black Inc., November 2013: (pp. 21-31). ISBN: 9781863956253
“I wrote Broken without justice but in hope of social and legal change for the next generations of girls. In late 2020, the laws that failed to protect me – and many others – at school from the ages of fifteen to seventeen were amended. Thank you to everyone involved.”
– Hazel Dooney


Dooney, Hazel. 'Broken', Women & Power, Griffith REVIEW Edition 40, edited by Julianne Schultz. April 2013 (pp. 252-262). ISBN: 9781922079978
An edited extract of 'Broken', retitled 'Bad Education', was published in Good Weekend Magazine insert in The AgeNewspaper and Sydney Morning Herald, 13 April 2013 (pp. 25-27).

Dooney, Hazel. 'Art and an undistracted conversation - and the dealer is doomed', TEDx Brisbane, 9 November 2011.

Dooney, Hazel. 'Self vs Self' blog, 23 August 2006 to 23 November 2017.
Self vs Self #1, Hazel Dooney 2004, high gloss enamel and reflective vinyl on custom-made board by Graham Reynolds, 100 x 150cm / 39 x 59 inches.

Edited extract of 'Life Study' retitled 'In front is a precipice, behind are wolves: Hazel Dooney walks the razor's edge between respect and celebrity in today's art world', was published in The Australian Financial Review, 15 September 2006 (pp. 6-7).
'Life Study' was first published in The Next Big Thing, Griffith REVIEW Edition 13, 13 August 2006 (pp. 275-283).


Dooney, Hazel. 'Life Study', The Next Big Thing, Griffith REVIEW Edition 13, 13 August 2006 (pp. 275-283). ISBN: 9780733319389
An edited extract of 'Life Study' retitled "In front is a precipice, behind are wolves: Hazel Dooney walks the razor's edge between respect and celebrity in today's art world", was published in The Australian Financial Review, 15 September 2006 (pp. 6-7).
Cover art by Hazel Dooney (credited p. 283).