Lizzie Hughes
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Lizzie Hughes makes meticulously detailed works that are often produced following long periods of obsessive research. Her approach to collecting and then structuring data has allowed her to remotely explore distant landscapes and briefly enter the private worlds of others.
To this end, she has made an audio portrait of The Empire State building by telephoning and speaking to office workers on each of its eighty floors; an electronic map that shows the graphic outlines of over thirty nine thousand swimming pools located in the city of Las Vegas and 4,007 Horizons a video work that transforms generic seaside snapshots into a dazzling journey around the globe.
Not confined to digital media, Hughes has worked with text, performance, found objects and during a recent residency at The William Morris Gallery hand forged steel. For the exhibition Revolver II at Matt’s Gallery in London over one afternoon the public contributed to a complete reading of Gertrude Stein’s epic novel The Making of Americans. The 1,000 page book was fragmented into short passages that were read concurrently. Individuals absorbed with their own pages contributed to a collective soundscape.
Her most recent work, The Weather in Paris in 1909, is a collection of over three hundred picture postcards all sent from Paris in the year 1909. The cards are unified by their handwritten messages that refer to the state of the weather at the time of writing. The consistent notes about sunshine, wind, rain and snow are interspersed with fragments of other people’s lives from which we can infer a plethora of private narratives.
EDUCATION
2000 - 2002 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London MFA Fine Art – Sculpture
1993 – 1997 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London BA (Hon) Fine Art – Sculpture
1991 – 1992 Coleg Menai, Bangor, Gwynedd Foundation in Art and Design
RESIDENCIES
2013
The William Morris Gallery, London, UK
2011
Escalator Retreat– Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
2005-2010
ACME Fire Station Residency, London, UK
2005
Vent Live Art Residency – OVADA, Oxford, UK
AWARDS
2000
The Mostyn Open prize
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2014
Revolver II - Matt's Gallery, London
Ghost of a Ghost - The William Morris Gallery, London
2013
Film in Space (Anthology) – Camden Arts Centre, London
2012
Being Boring – Space Studios, London
The Present Is a Point Just Passed – The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich University, London (exhibited in and curated the exhibition)
Wysing Arts Centre Open Weekend – Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK -commissioned work
2011
Digitalis - Animate Projects, commissioned work premiered at the BFI London
Concrete Poetry – Hayward Gallery, London
2010
Lizzie Hughes, Video Works – Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham
Preparing the Ground – ACA Dovetail, Newcastle
Present Technology – Kingston University, London
2009
Elsewhere III – Atelier Marcel Dinahet, Rennes, France
A Very Loud Silence – Aquaspace Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Stations – The String Room Gallery, Aurora, New York
Ailleurs II – Five Years, London
Transfixed Motion/Transitory Still - Sheffield Institute of Art and Design, Sheffield
195 Miles – PSL, Leeds (in collaboration with The Whitechapel Gallery
2008
Slow Glass – Lisa Cooley, New York
If You Build It They Will Come – G39, Cardiff
Transhift08 – A1 LabArts, Knoxville, Tennessee
Real Life – Portman Gallery, London
The Whole World – www.tank.tv and Caszuidas Screen, Amsterdam
Planchette – Nettie Horn, London
2007
VAD Festival Internacional de Video i Arts Digitals – Centre Cultural la Mercè, Girona, Spain (Honorary mention)
Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens? –outdoor screening in Melbourne, Australia and (and tour)
Lighthouse – Old Truman Brewery, London
2006
B-Sides (New Media Scotland) – outdoor screening in Oklahoma (and tour)
Arcade – Westbourne Studios, London
>Over – G39, Cardiff
2005
Rub Out The Word – d.u.m.b.o. arts centre, New York
Peculiar Encounters – E1 Arts Space, London
Vent - OVADA, Oxford
Incantations – South Preservation Convent, Cork, Southern Ireland
2004
Pilot:1 – Old Limehouse Town Hall, London
East End Academy – Whitechapel Gallery, London - commissioned work
For the Time Being – Victoria Baths, Manchester – commissioned work
2003
Ailleurs/Elsewhere – Museum of Installation, London
ArtSheffield03 – Workstation, Sheffield
Hubbub – Globe Hub, Newcastle
2002
A Measure of Reality – Kettle’s Yard, Cambridg
Toys II – Kagan Martos, New York
2001
New Contemporaries 2001 – Camden Arts Centre and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
2000
Mostyn Open 11 – Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno