Des Hughes
Works available
Stonut
2008
Edition 1 of 3
21 × 20 x 14 cm /
8 1/4 × 7 7/8 × 5 1/2 ins
Biography
Des Hughes was born in Birmingham in 1970, he lives and works in Herefordshire.
Born in 1970 in Birmingham, United Kingdom, Des Hughes lives and works in London. Hughes' sculptural practice reconfigures our rapport with the everyday by staging banal ready-mades next to handcrafted replicas of commodities, and three-dimensional caricatures of familiar thing
Solo exhibitions include 'Endless Endless 'Frame', Frieze Art Fair, 2010, 'Small Collections', Nottingham Contemporary, 2010 and 'Des Hughes and Richard Hughes', Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, 2008. Group shows 'Dystopia', CAPC, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, 2011 and 'Sometimes I wish I could just disappear', David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, 2011. 'Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts)', Camden Arts Centre, London, curated by Simon Starling, 2010 and 'BigMinis, Fetishes of Crisis', cur Alexi Vaillant, CAPC centre d'art contemporarin de Bordeaux, 2010.