Richard Dean Hughes

British b. 1987

British artist Richard Dean Hughes describes the slippery relationship between the real and hypothetical. Hughes often revisits and describes a personal and internal space, taking artifacts, feelings and ‘visuals’ from imagined scenarios, bringing them into real time through the manipulation of material and collisional objects. His sculptures question the idea of plausibility, they question their own existence, acting as a representational display of the space in which Hughes is trying to describe. Often drawing from history Hughes generates a real sense of place and time within the work; evoking a frustration within the viewer by emphasising a disconnect with the primary content of the work. The inclusion of the majestic and the past tense exaggerates a change in modern society and our fragile relationship with nature, tradition and history. ‘For me I am interested in the sensation, be it positive or negative, we feel when we acknowledge that history seems so much more profound than the present, it is in some way this sensation, or this illusion, that I try to embed within the work.’

SELECT EXHIBITIONS
+2024 And the Safe Spots Become Impassable, Hong Kong
+2024 Twelve Thousand, Duo Show with Nicola Ellis, Manchester
+2024 A Mirror to Vanity, Brooke Bennington, London
+2023 This be the Verse, Xxijrahii Gallery, London
+2023 Things Fall Apart, the Centre Cannot Hold, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London
+2023 Ubiquitous no.14, Tube Gallery, Palma, Spain
+2023 Centre Of the Periphery, Pipeline Gallery, London
+2022 Everything at Once, Generation and display, London, Duo show
+2021 Subliminal Thaw, Night Time Story, Los Angeles, Online Solo Show
+2021 Off Trail, Air Gallery, Manchester
+2021 Vent, 9A Gallery, Todmorden Yorkshire
+2020 Soft DisplaY, Division Of Labour, Worcester
+2020 When Shit Hit’s The Fan, Guts Gallery, London
+2020 A Better Feeling, A Better Feeling, Paris France
+2019 The Manchester Contemporary, Solo Booth, Paradise Works, Manchester Central
+2019 Millenialism, Paradise Works, Salford
+2018 No Cigar, Goldtapped Gallery, Newcastle
+2018 The Manchester Contemporary, Show Me Up
+2018 Merry Go Round Broke Down, AIR Gallery, Altrincham
+2018 Tipping The Scales, Paradise Works, Salford, Manchester
+2017 A Show About The Show, Scaffold Gallery, Manchester
+2017 Pupa, Assembly House, Leeds
+2017 Is This Real Life??, Curated by I.O.U.A.E, B&D studios, Newcastle
+2017 PLAY, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
+2017 Duizend Bommen En Granaten, Stitching White Cube, Kunsthal 45, Den Helder Netherlands
+2017 Limbic, Cuddle Projects, Art Hub, London
+2017 Stick Or Twist, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
+2017 Mono, PS Mirabel Gallery, Manchester
+2016 Global Village, Stitching White Cube: Honig-factory, Zuideinde 74, 1541 CE Koog a/d Zaan, the Netherlands
+2016 Youth Hostel, Richard-Schirrmann-Weg 6, 84028 Landshut, Germany
+2016 Kulturhuset Brønden, Brøndby Strand Center 60, 2660 Brøndby Strand, Denmark
+2016 MarlerKunst 2016, Essen, Germany
+2016 Darkness Can Not Drive Out Darkness, Only Light Can Do That, Lights of Soho, London
+2016 Ambition, Instigate Arts’ HOME Gallery, Manchester
+2016 Spectrum, PS Mirabel Gallery, Manchester
+2015 XerXes Sculpture Prize, Serpentine Gallery, Hyde Park, London
+2015 A Slow Passion, Federation House: Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Space Manchester
+2015 Our Hands Were Always Dirty But Our Minds Were Always CleaN, Fallout Factory, Liverpool
+2014 Noise Festival 2014 Launch, Curators choice: Tim Marlow, House of Commons, London
+2014 The Best New Creatives, Noise 2014, Better Bankside and Southbank, London
+2014 Noise at The Tetley, The Tetley, Leeds

NOTICEABLE ART FAIR +2024 Solo Booth with Xxijra Hii Gallery, NADA, New York

Exhibitions

Gallery Exhibition

Ubiquitous nº14

26.09.23 - 10.12.23