Gemma Hughes Artist – Artist and sculpture

Moon in a Box 2019 Glansevern Hall Gardens

Moon in a Box 2016 Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, ‘Art in The Garden’

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The structure of the theatre is inspiring me here

The structure of the theatre is inspiring me here in a closed box piece. It's very heavy for its size!
Slate, lead and daylight.

#workinprogress #lightandform #theatre #contemporarysculpture #colourandsculpture #daylightartworks

Here is the tarmac piece caught collapsing in the

Here is the tarmac piece caught collapsing in the heat!
This was a re-mould of 'Unravelling Time - Still Life with Lemon' which did its first collapse at the start of the Climate Change exhibition at @midwalesartscentre back in April.

#climatechanges #heat #contemporarysculpture #stuffmatters

"Unravelling Time-Still Life with Lemon" will be @

"Unravelling Time-Still Life with Lemon" will be @midwalesartscentre from this week. Thank you and good luck to all those managing this largely outdoors exhibition.

#artandenvironment #sculpture #artinwales

Alchemy. From dull rock.. through fire... to a bri

Alchemy. From dull rock.. through fire... to a brilliant white substance.

#lime #kiln #limekiln #contemporarysculpture #artandcolour #artandscience #lightinstallationart #noelectricity

1) lime form with lath and plaster 'wings'. 2)lime

1) lime form with lath and plaster 'wings'.
2)lime form before 'wings' installed.

The installation can fit inside any of the brick 'wicket arches' through which the limestone rocks were brought in and out on little railway tracks. You can see one of the trucks loaded with rock in the background.

#sculptureinstallation #lightandshadow #artandlight

I love this place - Hoffman Lime Kiln Llanymynech.

I love this place - Hoffman Lime Kiln Llanymynech.

Limestone rocks and coal were packed into this brick arched Kiln and burnt. The heat was immense. The H2o in the rock burnt away making it 40%lighter, and depending on purity, white.

# limestone #kiln #industrialrevolution

My lime and lath installation went from the studio

My lime and lath installation went from the studio to the Hoffman Lime Kiln in Llanymynech yesterday.

This is part of an ongoing and evolving Project to make work that is inspired by the material LIME (kiln burnt limestone) and research into its production at the kiln.

More photos to follow.

#sculpture #installationart #lime #traditionalbuildingmaterials #contemporarysculpture #kiln

The tarmacadam box and lime putty/stucco were asse

The tarmacadam box and lime putty/stucco were assembled and went to a gallery today for a Climate Change exhibition.

"Still Life with Lemon - Unravelling time."
It's a time-based, position-specific piece.

As the temperature on the windowsill increases, the tarmac box will soften and fall apart. As a result the yellow paint lines (that do the re-reflecting) will also be destroyed and the lemon and peels will then lose their colour.

#sculpture #lightandform #climatechange #darkmatter #stilllife #lemons #balance

This is a plaster cast ( lime putty, stucco with g

This is a plaster cast ( lime putty, stucco with goat hairs) of a twist of lemon peel.

Shown here before trimming the hairy miniscus off.

Forming this was a much more delicate operation than beating the asphalt, but had to be executed with the same speed.

#sculpture #whitematter #contemporaryart #exhibitingsoon #stilllife #installationart #calciumcarbonate #limestone #fossils

Satisfying but sticky end to the week, forming an

Satisfying but sticky end to the week, forming an asphalt box.

It took weeks to track down some hot tarmac and I had to beat it into its steel mold in the back of the car in a layby😂.

#sculpture #darkmatter #contemporaryart #exhibitingsoon

Another recent drawing of two lead forms in a boxy

Another recent drawing of two lead forms in a boxy space. Finding a 2D expression of/for my 3D work has had me flummoxed for quite a while....

#contemporarysculpture #drawing #black andwhite #stage

New drawing. Charcoal and pencil across gesso'd p

New drawing.
Charcoal and pencil across gesso'd paper feels great - capturing something of the spacial theatre of my sculptures I hope🤞

#contemporarysculpture #drawing #stage #blackandwhite

Scaling up from hand sized lump of lime putty to 1

Scaling up from hand sized lump of lime putty to 1m form.
# workinprogress #sculpture #lime #project #installation

I could play with this luminosity all day! - which

I could play with this luminosity all day! - which is why I don't fix the internal form to the slate base.
This piece is currently on the windowsill at Taste in Montgomery.

#contemporarysculpture #lightandform #tastemontgomery #montgomery #inspiredbywales #windowsill

Last of the snow sits in the furrows. Dull lead is

Last of the snow sits in the furrows.
Dull lead is scored, placed in a slate shadow box and is transformed by re-reflected daylight.

#newpiece #lightandform #lightandart #landscape

Wee lime mortar lump is being scaled up. Armature

Wee lime mortar lump is being scaled up. Armature completed with Kee system parts, willow and chicken wire. Next stage will be lovely and messy!

#inthestudio #maquette #inprogress #scale

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Education

Wimbledon, London
BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting) 1990-1993

Commissions and Awards

2011/12 Gazebo Project Hope House Children’s Hospice, Oswestry
Collaboration with the staff and children

2010 Chance to Create Mentor Award, Arts Council of Wales

1999 National Dance Theatre, Edinburgh.
A collaboration with Malcolm Fraser Architects, Co-ordinated by P.A.C.E (Public Art Commissions Edinburgh)

Selected Exhibitions

2019 Glansevern Hall Gardens

2016 Art in the Garden, Sir Harold Hillier Gardens

2015 Inspired by Wales, Mid Wales Arts Centre

2013 Oerley Hall II, Oswestry

2010 Flight, Mid Wales Arts Centre (solo)

2009 Form and Movement, Mid Wales Arts Centre

2007 Moreton Hall, Oswestry

1998 The Haven Studio, Dorset Art Week

1998 Studio64@Young Gallery, Salisbury Library Galleries

1997 The Orchard Gallery

1996 Gemma Hughes The Haven Studio (solo)

1997 Sherborne Contemporary Art Supermarket

1996 Gemma Hughes 50 Holland Park, London (solo)

1997 Bryanston Arts Centre

1996 Guggleton Farm Arts Project

1994 Light Fields, Connaught Street, London (solo)

1994 Greenbelt Arts Festival,

1994 Alexandra Palace