Sam Hughes (artist)

Sam Hughes (born 4 November 1977 ) is an Australian painter.

Hughes was born in Laverton, Victoria and raised in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. He developed an early interest in visual arts, and then went on to become a jeweller in Sydney. After 7 years of jewellery design and production, he focused his attention on painting and studied Visual Arts in Newcastle, New South Wales.

Still residing in Newcastle, Hughes has been producing, exhibiting and selling works in the area since 2003. His most notable achievements have been gaining entry and becoming a finalist in the Brett Whiltely Travelling Art Scholarship in both 2005 and 2007, winning the 2004 Sharon Grierson Education Prize, and also the 2006 Reg Russom Memorial Drawing Prize.

He has been involved in many group shows in the Newcastle area and has had 5 solo shows to date [http://www.samuelhughesart.com/mbr_bio.php] .

Volume project was a side installation when Samuel was starting his advanced diploma in fine arts.The projects used a subleased antic of a Hunter Street fashion shop in Newcastle.17sq meters of 10once canvas was painted to the walls and cillling and over a week worked the space "as a hole space"At opening night the work went on sale "by the cm" as buyers could sort out "plots" of the work and a price was calculated.Unannounced to the opening night crowd, the shop owner emptid and locked the down stairs shop less than 2hours after the exhibition was opened leaving inside Samuels work still attached to the wall. Less than 40 people where able to see the installation in its original location.

Batlow fence mural is a 60m /2m street mural in the NSW town of batlow panited on colorbond fencing it depects the four seasons of apple farming in the area. It was done in the spring and aultum of 2006-2007 for the Batlow development league.

Hughes' art is focused on urban landscapes and the hidden beauty within them, he studies juxtapositions, chaos and incidental beauty.quote
"His bold, flat planes of colour depicting interior and exterior scenes show him successfully hovering back and forth across that line [of abstract art] . That this hovering is achieved by a seemingly rudimentary technique outlining a basic architecture and with the barest of extraneous or descriptive detail is an indication of Hughes' purpose and skill. His works appear as studies - studies in purification. [ [http://www.cookshill.com/ Tony Micevsiki] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.sams-art.com/index.html Sam's Art]
* [http://www.samuelhughesart.com/ Samuel Hughes Art]
* [http://www.yourart.com/samuel.hughes/ Your art]
* [http://www.brettwhiteley.org/whats_on/archives/travelling_art_scholarship_2007]