Hughes' sculptural practice engages with traditional sculptural materials in new and inventive ways: mixing bronze with organic material for instance. He is also fascinated by the strangeness of British art, whether it be primitive art, strange craft objects or the reinvention of landscape, still life in British Surrealism and modernist British sculptural history.
Des Hughes 'Stonut' 21x20x14cm Bronze, Crisp Bag (2008)
Exhibitions
Hughes' work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally including Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (2005), Michael Benevento, Los Angeles (2008), Frieze Art Fair (2010), Nottingham Contemporary (2010), Ancient & Modern London (2012), Buchmann Galerie, Berlin (2013), Manchester Art Gallery (2013), The Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, UK (2014) and The Hepworth Wakefield, UK (2015-spring 2016).
Des Hughes 'Small Adult' 39x25x24cm Resin, Copper, Plaster (2014)
Selected group shows include Bart Wells Institute, Hamish McKay, Wellington, New Zealand (2004), Art Out of Place, Castle Museum, Norwich (2005), Strange Weight, Martos Gallery, New York (2007), Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring, Camden Arts Centre, London (2007), Art Now: Beating the Bourds, Tate Britain, London (2009), Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts), Camden Arts Centre, London, curated by Simon Starling (2010) and 'BigMinis, Fetishes of Crisis', curated by Alexi Vaillant, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux (2010) Dystopia, CAPC, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux (2011), Sometimes I wish I could just disappear', David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen (2011), The Sleepers, Clare Woods and Des Hughes, Pallant House, UK (2016)
Des Hughes 'Armature' 53x60x20cm Resin, Copper, Plaster (2013)
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