Contact: info (at) andyhughes (dot) net
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About
Andy Hughes was born in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England in 1966. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1991. In 1995 he moved to work and live in St Ives, Cornwall. He has supported various NGO's and has worked with Surfers Against Sewage since 1991. His work was recently auctioned for the Marine Conservation Society at Deutsche Bank headquarters in the City of London, his work received one of the highest bids. Andy Hughes was awarded the first Tate Gallery St Ives Artist Residency in 1993 and was recently shortlisted for the Arts Council Antarctic Fellowship 2007 & 2008. In 2009/10 a major exhibition of Andy Hughes work was exhibited at the The Mariners Museum, Virginia, USA. He teaches foundation degree photography at Truro College, Cornwall. His new book will be published by Booth Clibborn Editions & Abrams in the Autumn 2012
Studied
Royal College of Art, London - MA Photography
University of Wales, Cardiff - BA Hons Fine Art First Class
Fellowships & Awards
2008 Shortlisted Reserve Artist, British Antarctic Survey
[Arts Council England Fellowship]
2006 Arts Council England Funding Grant
2000 National Lottery and Millennium Commission Award
1998 Bournemouth International Arts Festival | Artist Commission
1998 Southern Arts Major Award
1997 South West Arts
1995 Prince's Trust Travel Grant
1994 Winner of Eastern Arts Young Artist Award
1995 St Ives International Festival of Light Project
1991 Winner of ELLE Magazine Talent Award
1991 Winner of Sunday Times Magazine Photography Award
Selected Exhibitions Group and Solo
2011 5th International Marine Debris Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii
2011 The Nature of Waste: An Art Meets Science Symposium.
This digital exhibition will present artists working with global ocean plastic pollution on the new Visualization Wall in the Petit Science Center at Georgia State University, Atlanta
2010 Mariners Museum, National Maritime Museum, USA
2008 The New Landscape, Royal Cornwall Museum
2008 Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
2008 The Happening, Cornwall, Tokyo, London, New York
2008 Royal West of England, Bristol
2008 Crane Kalman, Brighton
2007 Second Nature, Vitreous Fine Art, Cornwall
2007 Goldenshot, London
2007 Postcard from St Ives, Belgrave Gallery
2007 London-Photo 2007, Old Billingsgate. London
2007 Art Now Cornwall, Tate Gallery, St Ives
2007 The St Ives School 1997 - 2007, University College Cardiff,
2006 The Core Gallery, The Eden Project, Cornwall
2006 Invited selected artist ‘Danger Global Warming’ Blacksmoke & Greenpeace
2004/5 Oxbow Longboard Art Project, various galleries across the UK
(invited artists included Damien Hirst, Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz), Banksy,
Aphex Twin, David Carson )
Selected Publications & Media
Landscape Magazine, DEFRA
BBC Brazil
BBC Cornwall - People
Discarded Studies / Wordpress
Guardian Environmen
Material World - Blog
Featured Artist for Nokia/Virgin Airways In-Flight Media 2008
RPS Contemporary Group Magazine Feature Sumer 2007
Saatchi Gallery's online magazine review
Royal Photographic Society, Contemporary Group Magazine 2007
Imaginginfo.com 2007
Orion Magazine May/June 2007
SEED Magazine (USA) Book Review 05.07- Polymers Are Forever
AG International Journal of Photography 05.07
Art Now Cornwall, Tate Publishing ISBN 9781854377517
Everyday Trash 6.02.07 (everyday trash/wordpress)
Cornwall Today 02.07
Inside Cornwall: Issue 157 January 2007
Royal Photographic Society, Journal, 01.07
The St Ives School 1997 - 2007 - UWIC ISBN: 0955477808
Independent London Photographers Magazine, 12.06
Western Morning News, Magazine, 11.06
Eden Magazine No. 24
Canadian National Post, Arts & Life, 24.07.06
BBC Blast 1.09.06
Surfers Path Magazine (USA & Europe)
Channel 4 Short Film “The Nations Favorite Buildings"
Hotshoe Photography International
The Big Issue
Selected artist /RPS - 1998 Year of Photography & Electronic Imaging
BBC World Service - Young Artists in Cornwall
Gulf News, UAE
Published work in ID Japan, Sunday Times Magazine
Big Magazine New York
British Journal of Photography
BBC Radio 4 Kaleidoscope Interview
BBC Radio 4 The Afternoon Shift
Lecturing & Teaching
Cardiff University, Southampton University,Truro College
Royal College of Art, Northampton College, ARCO Lisbon,
Cornwall College, University College Falmouth,Tate Gallery St Ives.
Symposiums & Panels
Invited Panelist, Tate Debate, Tate St Ives, Art Now Cornwall, April 2007
The St Ives School: Symposium, Cardiff University, January 2007;
Speakers: Mike Tooby, Curator National Museum of Wales,
Dr Chris Short, Professor of Art History
One Friday Conference:
Russell Square,
London, February 2007
Speakers: Amelia Noble, Jason Smith, James Henderson,
Daniel Eatock, René Knip
Collections
Cornwall County Council Collection of Modern Art
Arts Council Wales
Mariners Museum, Virginia, USA
Private collections in USA and UK
Publications
Dominant Wave Theory
ISBN 1-86154-284- /
Full colour 290 mm x 300 mm
Booth Clibborn Editions, London, England
H N Abrams Inc., New York
Art Now Cornwall
Tate Gallery
ISBN - 978-1-85437-7 ©
Tate Gallery 2007 Susan Daniel-McElroy
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