About Cate Hayes
I’m Cate Hayes, an author, artist, and consultant based in Australia. My work spans creative writing, art, wellbeing, and professional development through Cate Creations – Create Dream Believe Achieve. I combine storytelling, creativity, and leadership to help others find clarity and purpose in their own creative journeys.
​I launched Cate Creations in 2016, driven by my passion for art, writing and helping others. My journey has also been shaped by deep faith and the experience of overcoming chronic pain. I invite you to learn more about this chapter—and how it fuels my creative purpose—by visiting my GoFundMe and watching the full story on YouTube.
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Education
2021-2023
University of Adelaide
MBA Masters of Business Administration
Two year full time MBA Online - including Capstone Research Project on The Social and Economic Value of Public Art
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2004-2005
SOAS
MA - Master of Arts - Visual Arts and Archaeology - Dean's Merit Award for Thesis, Contemporary Thai Art. Sub majors Thai Language and Chinese Ceramics, South East Asian Art and Archaeology. Thesis by dissertation: Supervisor Professor Elizabeth Moore.
2000-2001
The University of Adelaide
MA - Master of Arts - Applied Historical Studies (Curatorial Internship and Public Historian Qualification)
Research Project - Melbourne's Living Museum of the West - A web site for the Footscray Historical Society Supervisor Professor Wilfred Prest
1995-2015
Various
Other Education
Conferred - Graduate Diploma in Applied Historical Studies (1999) Internship Migration Museum of South Australia and Eyres House National Trust, Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing (1998), both from the University of Adelaide. Inaugural Class Professor Thomas Shapcott. Published in Iron and Lace class Anthology, and presented at Writer's Week in Adelaide.
Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts and Archaeology, Flinders University 1995. Conferred, Majors Art History and Indigenous Archaeology: Minors; Women's Studies, Australian Studies (Literature and Culture): Sociology (Theory).
PhD Thai Contemporary Artists started at ANU (2015), Master of Education started at UWA (2017), Juris Doctor started at RMIT (2025).
Hampstead School of Art - Painting and Drawing - Nigel Caple (2004).
Graduate Certificate - Royal Holloway College - British Museum - Art of the Islamic World (2003) Distinction, Later renamed and moved to SOAS under Professor Heather Elgood.
Certificate in Small Business Management - TAFE South Australia 1996​
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