Patrick Hughes was born in Birmingham, England in October 1939. His first exhibition was in 1961 and his first reverspective was made in 1964. He has been exhibiting with Angela Flowers Gallery since 1970.
He has written and collated three books on visual and verbal rhetoric.
Hughes' work is full of irony. By creating a world solidified into perspective he makes pictures that come alive before our eyes.
In the myth of the sculptor Pygmalion makes a stone woman, whom Aphrodite brings to life as Galatea. Hughes makes wooden lumps of space and you bring them to life by looking at them. It is sculpted painting, solid space.
Murray McDonald
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Volumes, Patrick's latest multiple is now available to order at Flowers East. Contact.
Art and Illusions, Masterpieces of trompe l'oeil from antiquity to present day
The well attended exhibition at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence closed on 14 January. The show is touring to Musee du Luxembourg, Paris where it will open on 17 February 2010 to 1 August 2010.
Flowers Central in Cork Street, London
are holding a solo show of Patrick's work. The show will open on 12 January and run untill 6 February 2010.
Animamix Biennial
2009-2010
Patrick's work will be exhibited at this event.
Opens 27 December 2009 -
5 February 2010.
Venue: 3rd floor of building
No, 1, Today Art MUSeum, Beijing
Galerie Boisserée in Cologne
will be exhibiting Patrick's work in a solo show. The solo exhibition opens on 17 March and will run untill 24 April 2010.
Please see News & Exhibitions for more information.
Lélia Mordoch Galerie in Paris
is showing Patrick's work in a solo exhibition. The show opens on Thursday 15 April and will close on Saturday 22 May 2010. Please refer to News & Exhibitions for more information.
The Brain Experimentium
Patrick's work will be included in this touring exhibition.
The exhibition opens in Copenhagen, Denmark on
1 October 2009 and runs untill
1 September 2010. It will then tour to Göteburg, Sweden
from 1 October 2010 to
1 September 2011 and then on to The Netherlands. More details will be posted here when confirmed.
Patrick's submission for the Vancouver Biennale 2009-2011 has
been accepted. Please refer to the News & Exhibitions page for the
latest news. The scuplture
will be erected in Vancouver in
January 2010.
Visual Deception Japan
The touring trompe l'oeil exhibition in 3 venues attracted a staggering 750,000 visitors!
For a more details on the above please refer to the
News & Exhibitions section.
