Sara Hughes (artist)

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Sara Hughes
Born1971 (age 53–54)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
NationalityNew Zealander
Education Elam School of Fine Arts

Sara Hughes (born 1971) is a Canadian-born New Zealand artist.

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Background

Hughes was born in 1971 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [1] [2] She graduated in 2001 from the Elam School of Fine Arts with a Masters of Fine Arts. [3]

Career

Hughes is a painter and installation artist. [3]

Hughes is represented in Auckland by Gow Langsford Gallery [4] and in Melbourne by Sutton Gallery. [3]

Work by Hughes are included in some of public collections including the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, [2] Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, [5] and the National Gallery of Australia. [6]

In 2023 she was commissioned to create art works called Colour Quartet to be sold to raise funds for the restoration of Kāhui St David's a music centre in Khyber Pass Rd, Auckland. [7]

Residencies

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Sara Hughes". findnzartists.org.nz. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Sara Hughes". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Artist Profile - Sara Hughes". Sutton Gallery. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "Sara Hughes". Gow Langsford Gallery. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Sara Hughs, Collections Online". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "NGA collection Sara Hughes". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Saving St David's: Transforming a church into a centre for music". RNZ . 30 November 2023. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  8. 1 2 "Sara Hughes awarded Berlin Visual Art Residency". Scoop News. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  9. ↑ 20 years of Artists-In-Residence McColl Center
  10. ↑ "2005: Sara Hughes". Wallace Arts Trust. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  11. ↑ "The Frances Hodgkins Fellowship". University of Otago. Archived from the original on 4 October 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

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