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Sara Hughes 'Christmas Star'
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$3,000 - $5,000
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ARTIST
Sara Hughes
Description
Sara Hughes
Christmas Star, 2024
titled, signed and dated verso
acrylic on linen
400 x 300mm
Artist information
Sara Hughes
b. 1971 Canada
Lives in Auckland
Active since the early 2000s, Sara Hughes has created a rich artistic language centred in geometric abstraction. Hughes is well established and highly regarded throughout Australasia, with an extensive exhibition history across a broad range of public and private contexts. She has created work on a remarkable range of scales, from intimate paintings to immersive installations and large-scale public art projects.
Hughes has developed a practice that melds conceptual ideas with a complex approach to colour and composition. Her paintings have often featured dazzling geometry and bright palettes, creating striking visual effects that seem to hold an irrepressible energy and movement. Her recent work has explored time and light, and how our days are defined by these cyclical rhythms. She articulates this through a recreation of her own experiences of changing light, working in layers of colour over her canvases to evoke light from specific moments in time.
Hughes has won numerous awards and residencies, including the Francis Hodgkins Fellowship in 2003, the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York in 2007, and the Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in 2008/09. She has undertaken a number of high-profile public commissions, and her installation for the New Zealand International Convention Centre in Auckland is the largest integrated public artwork in New Zealand. Her work is held in many significant public and private collections, including the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Te Papa Tongarewa, and the National Gallery of Australia.
Gow Langsford Gallery has represented Sara Hughes since 2004.
Christmas Star, 2024
titled, signed and dated verso
acrylic on linen
400 x 300mm
Artist information
Sara Hughes
b. 1971 Canada
Lives in Auckland
Active since the early 2000s, Sara Hughes has created a rich artistic language centred in geometric abstraction. Hughes is well established and highly regarded throughout Australasia, with an extensive exhibition history across a broad range of public and private contexts. She has created work on a remarkable range of scales, from intimate paintings to immersive installations and large-scale public art projects.
Hughes has developed a practice that melds conceptual ideas with a complex approach to colour and composition. Her paintings have often featured dazzling geometry and bright palettes, creating striking visual effects that seem to hold an irrepressible energy and movement. Her recent work has explored time and light, and how our days are defined by these cyclical rhythms. She articulates this through a recreation of her own experiences of changing light, working in layers of colour over her canvases to evoke light from specific moments in time.
Hughes has won numerous awards and residencies, including the Francis Hodgkins Fellowship in 2003, the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York in 2007, and the Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in 2008/09. She has undertaken a number of high-profile public commissions, and her installation for the New Zealand International Convention Centre in Auckland is the largest integrated public artwork in New Zealand. Her work is held in many significant public and private collections, including the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Te Papa Tongarewa, and the National Gallery of Australia.
Gow Langsford Gallery has represented Sara Hughes since 2004.
