Haydn says, “When the snapper swims along - it swims up to it’s prey and bang - he does what he got to do and he’s gone - that’s me”
 
At 21 years, Haydn is a keen sportsman and enjoys football, basketball, cricket and spear fishing. His brother is Edward Sansbury, AFL footballer for the Kangaroos.
 
Haydn says, “I’m young, black and broke”.

As a young boy Haydn’s family travelled a lot - they spent a few years in Kalgoorlie on an emu farm - and lived on and off the Aboriginal community of Point Pearce - coming back home every chance they had. In year 10, Haydn showed promise as an artist, so he was placed in a specialist art class for talented students. He dropped out of school mid way through the following year to concentrate on playing football.
 
Haydn says, “I was living in Adelaide - getting into trouble - and I wanted to snap out of that life - I came back home to Point Pearce - I started painting to take my mind off of what was going on around me - to relax my mind”.
 
The Adjahdura Artists are great friends; Haydn says, “We all go butterfishing together - we go in deep waters - shark waters - we aint afraid of going deep - there hasn’t been an Aboriginal man ever taken by a shark”.
 
He has several licences to drive heavy machinery and a certificate in pest and weed control. Like the other Adjahdura artists, the sea, cultural landscapes and Dreaming stories are major influences on his work.
 
Haydn says, “Everyone who was taken away from this place always came back. You can take a nunga (black fella) out of his land, but you can’t take the land out of a nunga”.