Richard Dean Hughes
Hughes incorporates a wide range of traditional processes alongside new technologies, and an ever-growing array of materials from resin, metal, polyurethane and paint, to dust and newspaper. Using small tools to carve certain works, then stereo-lithography to produce others; like his work, Hughes shifts and morphs, reacting to the concept, and the language of generated ideas.
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b. 1987 Chester, UK
Lives and works in Manchester, UK
Education
2006-2009 Manchester School of Art, Manchester UK
Selected Exhibitions
2024
And the Safe Spots Become Impassable. Curated by Yisi Li and Ethan Yip, Hong Kong
Twelve Thousand - Duo Show with Nicola Ellis in a disused tram warehouse, Manchester, UK
A Mirror to Vanity, Brooke Bennington, London, UK
2023
This be the Verse, Xxijra Hii Gallery, London, UK
Things Fall Apart, the Centre Cannot Hold, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London, UK
Ubiquitous no.14., Tube Gallery, Palma, Spain
Centre Of the Periphery, Pipeline Gallery, London, UK
2022
Everything at Once, Generation and display, London, UK
2021
Subliminal Thaw, Night Time Story, Los Angeles, US
Off Trail, Air Gallery, Manchester, UK
Vent, 9A Gallery, Todmorden Yorkshire, UK
2020
Soft Display, Division Of Labour, Worcester, UK
When Shit Hit’s The Fan, Guts Gallery, London, UK
A Better Feeling, A Better feeling design space, Paris, France
2019
The Manchester Contemporary, Solo Booth, Paradise Works, Manchester, UK
Millenialism, Paradise Works, Salford, UK
2018
No Cigar, Goldtapped Gallery, Newcastle, UK
The Manchester Contemporary, Show Me Up, Manchester, UK
Merry Go Round Broke Down, AIR Gallery, Altrincham, UK
Tipping The Scales, Paradise Works, Salford, Manchester, UK
2017
A Show About The Show, Scaffold Gallery, Manchester, UK
Pupa, Assembly House, Leeds, UK
Is This Real Life??, Curated by I.O.U.A.E, B&D studios, Newcastle, UK
PLAY, Bankley Gallery, Manchester, UK
Continued…
Duizend Bommen En Granaten, Stitching White Cube, Kunsthal 45, Den Helder, Netherlands
Limbic, Cuddle Projects, Art Hub, London, UK
Stick Or Twist, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
Mono, PS Mirabel Gallery, Manchester, UK
2016
Global Village, Stitching White Cube
Honig-factory, Zuideinde 74, 1541 CE Koog a/d Zaan, Netherlands
Youth Hostel, Richard-Schirrmann Weg6, 84028 Landshut, Germany
Kulturhuset Brønden, Brøndby Strand Center 60, 2660 Brøndby Strand, Denmark
MarlerKunst 2016, Essen, Germany
Darkness Can Not Drive Out Darkness, Only Light Can Do That, Lights of Soho, London, UK
Ambition – Instigate Arts, HOME Gallery, Manchester, UK
Spectrum, PS Mirabel Gallery, Manchester, UK
XerXes Sculpture Prize, Serpentine Gallery, Hyde Park, London, UK
2015
A Slow Passion, Federation House: Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
Our Hands Were Always Dirty But Our Minds Were Always Clean, Fallout Factory, Liverpool, UK
2014
Noise Festival 2014 Launch, Curators choice: Tim Marlow. House of Commons, London, UK
The Best New Creatives, Better Bankside and Southbank, London, UK
Noise at The Tetley, The Tetley, Leeds, UK
In the press / Online
2024
Emergent Magazine, ‘And the safe spots become impassable’ at Basel Hong Kong 2024
2022
Art Maze Magazine, issue 24, Featured interview
Floorr Magazine, issue 10, Featured Interview
2021
Tique Art, Exhibition feature
2018
Rung Magazine, Produced and curated by East Bristol Contemporary
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