Talks & Seminars
ARTIST TALK: WILL HUGHES
Will Hughes is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Teesside. For this talk Will will focus on their practice after they completed a Masters degree.
Will Hughes is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Teesside. Their work is conceptually driven by their lived experiences as a queer, non binary person in the UK, mixing pop culture references with material language to construct moments. They wish to seduce the viewer through often using repetitive mechanical movement, glossy/shiny surfaces and the lens of glamour as a means of storytelling. Glamour is a spell which is cast, a blur, it is transformative and seductive, 'You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.' Donatella tells us.
Will is a freelance project manager, working for Middlesbrough Art Week and The Auxiliary in Middlesbrough and is an advocate for artists at a regional level. They are currently researching and collecting responses from Teesside based artists about fabrication facilities in the region.
They have exhibited nationally and internationally, Most recently they had a solo exhibition ‘LA LA LA, LA LA LA LA LA, LA LA LA, LA LA LA LA LA’ at Abingdon studios and project space in Blackpool (2023) and in they have also just completed a year of development thanks to a DYCP award from the Arts Council. They were a nominated recipient of the Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award (2022) and are currently artist in residence at Lightpool Festival.
For this talk Will will focus on their practice after they completed a Masters degree at the BxNU (Baltic & Northumbria University) institute in Newcastle (2021) how there practice has evolved, the challenges of being an artist and making ends meet. Secondly Will, will share there experiences of working within the artist run community in Middlesbrough. The creative hub that is Teesside and how the sector is growing thanks to the support of Middlesbrough Cultural Partnership, the Combined Authority and Creative Factory.
Will is a freelance project manager, working for Middlesbrough Art Week and The Auxiliary in Middlesbrough and is an advocate for artists at a regional level. They are currently researching and collecting responses from Teesside based artists about fabrication facilities in the region.
They have exhibited nationally and internationally, Most recently they had a solo exhibition ‘LA LA LA, LA LA LA LA LA, LA LA LA, LA LA LA LA LA’ at Abingdon studios and project space in Blackpool (2023) and in they have also just completed a year of development thanks to a DYCP award from the Arts Council. They were a nominated recipient of the Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award (2022) and are currently artist in residence at Lightpool Festival.
For this talk Will will focus on their practice after they completed a Masters degree at the BxNU (Baltic & Northumbria University) institute in Newcastle (2021) how there practice has evolved, the challenges of being an artist and making ends meet. Secondly Will, will share there experiences of working within the artist run community in Middlesbrough. The creative hub that is Teesside and how the sector is growing thanks to the support of Middlesbrough Cultural Partnership, the Combined Authority and Creative Factory.
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