Artist involved in public art, film and tin automata, born in Altrincham, Cheshire, whose “little tin figures represent moments in time…. Making things out of stuff that others throw away is very liberating.” Hazell graduated from Reading University, 1977–81, gaining his master’s from the Slade School of Fine Art, 1984–6. While at the Slade, in 1985 he won a University College London Travel Grant to visit mud mosques in Mali, in 1986 a Boise Scholarship to Japan. After being Sculpture Fellow at Cheltenham College of Art, 1987, in 1988 Hazell won a Crafts Council Setting Up Grant, other grants including ones in 1992 and 1995 taking him to Slovakia and Pakistan, part of his wide travels, including residencies around Britain, in Germany and America.