Mair Hughes works in sculpture and installation and is currently based at Stroud Valley Artspace in Gloucestershire. Hughes received the RSA Barnes-Graham travel award in 2007 after completing her MA in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art, visiting northern Italy to explore the earthy and ephemeral legacy of Arte Povera, as well as exploring edible production processes closer to home through visits to the Tunnock’s factory in Uddingston.
In recent work Hughes reincarnates artefacts and ideas from the past under new guises and with altered intentions. Employing a spectrum of making methods from textiles and hand-built ceramics to staged photographic images and adapted manufactured objects, Hughes’ eclectic approach to production reflects the strange and sometimes perverse hierarchies of value and matter that we grapple with in a material world.
