Hannah Hughes (b. 1975) is a London-based visual artist. She graduated from the University of Brighton in 1997, and her work has since been exhibited internationally. Her work focuses on the use of negative space, and the salvaging and re-purposing of found materials. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Gloucestershire, and her practice-based research explores processes of fragmentation and strategies of re-fitting within the areas of collage, sculptural photography and ceramic sculpture.
Her first book Mirror Image was published by Jane & Jeremy in 2023; and she has participated in two collaborative publications with artist Dafna Talmor, Glossaries, published by Folium in association with Sid Motion Gallery, (2023) and Glossaries II, as part of Emic Units 1, published by Shibboleth, 2023). Her work is included in an experimental publication by Rodrigo Orrantia, 'Material Immaterial’, which has included performances at Cosmos, Arles and Offprint, Paris.
She recently participated in the Brâncuşi and Britain Early Career Research Symposium ‘Modern Sculpture, Essence, and Difference: Reflections on the Work of Constantin Brâncuşi’ at the Courtauld, London, hosted by the Henry Moore Foundation.
Selected Exhibitions:
Solid Slip, (Solo) Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, Germany (2024)
Material Thinking, Lightbox Gallery & Museum, Woking, Surrey, (2024)
Art Fictions Anthology 1, ASC Gallery, London (2024)
Glossaries: Hannah Hughes & Dafna Talmor, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2022-23)
Monochrome, Coleman Projects, London (2022)
The State of Things, Landskrona Foto Festival, Sweden (2022)
Photo50: No Place is an Island, curated by Rodrigo Orrantia, London Art Fair (2022)
Entractes #15, The Eye Sees, Arles, France (2021)
Gleaners: Olivia Bax & Hannah Hughes, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2020)
Super Flatland, White Conduit Projects, London (2020)
New Formations, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA (2020)
The Office of Revised Futures, Format International Photography Festival, Derby (2019)
The Truth in Disguise, Geste, Paris, France (2019)
A Romance of Many Dimensions, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2018)
Concealer, curated by Tom Lovelace, Peckham 24, Copeland Gallery, London (2018)
These Fingers Read Sideways, (Monomatic), Fettes College, Edinburgh (2018)
Shapely, Ahbyah Baker and Hannah Hughes, CSA Space, Vancouver, BC, (2011)
Her work has been published in the FT Weekend Magazine, AnOther.com, Art Licks Magazine Issue 25, ArtMaze Magazine Issue 22, the RPS Journal, Trebuchet, Photomonitor and the British Journal of Photography and she has been interviewed on the Art Fictions Podcast and Chats with Artists in Lockdown podcast. Her work is also featured in the publication ‘Look At This If You Love Great Photography: A Critical Curation Of 100 Essential Photos’ by Gemma Padley, published by The Ivy Press, 2021.
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