Andy Hughes is Programme Leader for Action Photography.
Andy Hughes is a leading English photographer whose photographic works reflect a concern with the ocean, beach and environmental issues. He studied Fine Art at Cardiff University, and photography at the Royal College of Art, London. In 1993 he moved to Cornwall where he was the first artist in residence at the Tate Gallery St Ives. He continues to support various NGO’s such as Surfers Against Sewage and the Marine Conservation Society.
His work was recently auctioned at Deutsche Bank Art Auction where his work sold for over £1,500 per print / for the Marine Conservation Society. Recently he was the reserve shortlisted artist for the Arts Council Antarctic Fellowship. During 2010 the Mariners Museum,USA exhibited his work along with the photographer Chris Jordan.
His book ‘Dominant Wave Theory’ is published by Booth-Clibborn and was designed by David Carson. David Carson is an American graphic designer best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. Carson is almost universally acknowledged as the greatest and certainly the most influential graphic designer of the 2oth Century. In particular, his widely-imitated aesthetic defined the so-called “grunge” era.
His work was shown at the 5th International Marine Debris Conference, Honolulu and also at the San Sebastian Amstel Surf Film Festival in 2012.
A new book was published by Booth-Clibborn ( London) and Abrams ( New York) in 2013 about his love of Jack Russell dogs.
Andy has just returned in the summer of 2013 from Alaska as an invited artist for the Gyre Project: this tells a global ocean debris story through the work of more than 20 artists from around the world. The 7,500-square foot exhibition includes a section specific to Alaska featuring the 2013 expedition’s resulting scientific discoveries, as well as art created from the ocean trash gathered on Alaska’s beaches during the journey. Andy Hughes, Mark Dion, Carl Safina, Pam longobardi and other world leading scientists were on board the RS Norseman for a journey along the remot Alaskan Coastline.
WATCH THE MOVIE HERE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr5m8b28eqA
Selected bibliography
Dominant Wave Theory, Andy Hughes, 2006, Booth-Clibborn Editions (london) Harry N Abrams (New York). ISBN 1-86154-284-4
Art Now Cornwall, Susan Daniel McElroy & Sara Hughes, Tate Gallery, ISBN 978-1-85437-751-7
The St Ives School 1997- 2007, Exhibition Catalogue, Dr Christopher Short, Mike Tooby, ISBN 0-9554778-0-8
http://www.andyhughes.net
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Nick Hughes
http://www.nicholas-hughes.net/
Image #34 | © Nicholas Hughes 2007
Nicholas Hughes is a UK based artist who works mainly within his immediate location whether that be – central London, the British coastline, Switzerland or Germany. His work has recently been shown at ‘Landscape’, the 5th International Photo Festival in Seoul 2005, Paris Photo at the Carrousel de Louvre 2005 and at ‘Earth’ The Houston twentieth Biennial Fotofest in 2006. He has a solo show at the Photographers’ Gallery in London from September – November 2007. He has pursued a career as a photographic artist since obtaining a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1998 followed by a Master’s Degree from the London College of printing in 2002. His work is represented by The Photographers’ Gallery in London and by Gana Art Center in Seoul and has been featured in numerous publications, including Next Level, Hotshoe International, the Photographer and the British Journal of Photography, and is held in photographic collections worldwide.
“Immensity is within ourselves. It is attached to a sort of expansion of being that life curbs and caution arrests, but starts again when we are alone.”
Gaston Bachelard (The Poetics of Space).
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