Matthew-Robert Hughes

Mellow Yellow Lazer Print: Further work in Progress 2011

2011-07-20T10:12:00.000-07:00

Bust (we dont need another hero): Lazer Print on yellow paper 2011

A Nameless Fear: unique xerox on rose pink paper 2011

A few experiments I have been playing with using different Colour Papers as Lazer Prints and Xerox's. I have started to rescan them and increase the scale of the images as re-printed Giclee prints. Its all very process driven and as always Im finding some happy little accidents along the way.

The Midas Touch: Work in Progress 2011

2011-07-20T09:56:00.001-07:00

I have had some intense sessions in the dark room over the past 3 weeks!! (naughty) I have been pushing the unique c-types further and recently ordered a new dark room paper that Kodak produce which is metallic and has a glossy iridescence to it. I have been creating precious metal inspired colour casts with the colour filters. my favorite so far is the gold which i am holding in the top image. Last week I was hanging out at Studio Key which is the most beautiful studio space that my Friend Charles Moriarty runs (that him in the bottom pic). I regularly shoot there but this time I was using the vast space to view my work. Im getting very excited of how the project is looking but i still want to do so much more. Think its going to be an ongoing ten year project!

Miriah Robertson

2011-06-28T05:03:00.000-07:00

A short documentary of one of my contemporary Hero's, Mariah Robertson. but also a stark reminder that this way of working will one day be obsolete.click link to view the film

"I've got Arms!!"

2011-03-18T12:22:00.000-07:00

Untitled (Replica of an Armless Statue), Lazer Print 2010

Installation shots 2010

2011-03-18T12:06:00.000-07:00

Dysmorphic Bodies (Video Installation) 2010

A Fragile Truce, Installation (Xeroexs, Lazer Print and Plexiglass) 2010

Beings of Semblance, Installation (Unique C-Types, Plexiglass, Shelf) 2010

Conjoined Twin (Billboard, Xerox) 2010

Video Work in Progress 2011

2011-03-10T07:06:00.000-08:00

Guardian of the North (working title) video still 2011

Working on various video installations to co-exsit with the new photo-sculptural work.

Crafting a relationship between colour, form and abstraction. And secretly inspired by the kaleidoscopic book from The Secret of Kells.

Work In Progress 2011

2011-02-16T03:37:00.001-08:00

Ive been in the Darkrooms solidly for the last 3 week starting the new body of work.
I am starting to include more folds and curves to the work to create something much more sculptural. here's a sneaky peek.

Xerox experimention

Hand crafted C-type colour experiment

Being of Semblance V, (Hand crafted Unique C-type) 2011

Curved and Hand crafted C-type Print Experiment

Artist Talk: University of the Arts London

2011-02-16T03:07:00.000-08:00

Artist Talk At the London College of Communication Feb 15

Yesterday I gave Talk to 100+ students in 2 parts. The first part being about my work to date, and the second advice on how to keep motivated and proactive after graduating. I love talking to students as you get a real sense their energy, enthusiasm and ideas. An environment I have amazing memories from and has been integral to my development as an artist.

Production Shots New Work 2011

2010-12-03T08:55:00.000-08:00

Recently started the beginning of a new chapter in my practice. I have been researching like a maniac over the summer months and I been gearing up to start making again. So here are a few production shots that were taken on a cold weekend in November and the start of a transition.

I will I start the art making process early 2011, when I move into my New Studio!! Very very excited so watch this space.

Studio: Studio Key

Hair and Make Up: Francis Lucy Brooks

Sound: Owen Wallace Lasch

Photography Assistant: Lone Eriksen

Clothes: Elizabeth Thorne@ Strut and Stroll

Performers and Models: William Robertson, Dominic Murphy, William Plane, Rebecca Ribichini, Louis Harris-Trench, Katie Sangers and Karin Nilsen

An Object Made of Flesh 2010

2010-04-25T18:37:00.000-07:00

An Object Made of Flesh 2010 (video Still)

New video work. Im going back to old techniques I have used before combing both still and moving image, but this time with the intension to create a new form. A living and breathing art object.

You can watch it on my vimeo page, just click the above link.

Rise of the Pheonix

2010-03-30T11:18:00.001-07:00

Rise of the Pheonix

Scan from a Laser Print

nearly but not quite

2010-03-18T18:09:00.000-07:00

Joerg Colberg had recently posted my work on his Conscientious Photography blog. Conscientious is now one of the most world widely viewed photography blogs, so finally somebody has written something about my work. well almost.

Check it out

Conscientious

The Tension of My Own Endurance 2010 (Video Still)

2010-03-18T14:59:00.001-07:00

The Tension of My Own Endurance 2010

This is a sneak peek of some new moving image work that is currently in production during my time in New York. Its an extension of my early video work, but here I'm fusing both still and moving image together to create a moving Painting. The main source of inspiration has been drawn has been from a long time love affair with Francis Bacon's Paintings. For me when ever I have the opportunity to his paintings in the flesh, they appear to be alive and moving but at the same time very still, as if oscillating on the very surface of the painting. This notion is my starting point but also part of the conclusion.

Metrópolis - Descubrimientos PHE 2009

2010-02-06T13:43:00.000-08:00

All of the artists work which were exhibited as part of Descubrimentos 2009, have been included in a documentary film of the event. This was aired on a Metropolis, a spanish TV show on the arts. This includes interviews with the partisipating artists and memebers of the jury.

Metrópolis - Descubrimientos PHE 2009

you can see my work at 11 mins and 15 seconds

Xerox (The Sounds I Miss) 1 and 2

2009-12-14T08:41:00.001-08:00

Xerox (The Sounds I Miss) I 2009 (working title)

Xerox (Untitled Silence) 2009 (working Title)

Xerox (The Sounds I Miss) II 2009 (working title)

Xerox (Dress You Up in My Love) I and II

2009-12-10T13:42:00.000-08:00

Dress You Up in My Love I

Dress You Up in My Love II

More Xerox Experiments................ This time turning the camera to the point of view of Moi. Here I've begun to treat and use the Photocopier as my darkroom, treating each image as a unique object, and producing images though the intuitive nature of controlled chance.

Xerox 2009

2009-11-10T14:02:00.000-08:00

The Twins 2009

Finally entering the digital age.....

........Well sort of, I'm experimenting with the photocopier as an Image Making Machine, creating visual accidents. These images are then enlarged on a bigger scale to give this insignificant object, a body, a space and a meaning.

Work in Progress New York 2009

2009-11-10T10:53:00.001-08:00

These are some Unique C-Types prints that are a continuation of ideas from my previous work. I have been printing form both my own and found negatives to start to create a dialogue between my previous bodies of work. These images are printed on a much smaller scale to start with and act as artist studies for the final unique c-types.

Untitled (seated figure III) 2009 (Working Title)

Untitled (seated figure IV) 2009 (Working Title)

Untitled (Lying) 2009 (Working Title)

Untitled (seated figure V) 2009 (Working Title)

One Year Photography Residency at the School of Visual Arts, New York 2009/10

2009-11-10T09:46:00.000-08:00

I am currently embarking on a one year International Residency Programme, of which I was awarded a US Presidential Scholarship.

"This intensive residency offers international participants the opportunity to work in technologically advanced facilities with renowned photographers to bring critical rigor to the advanced photographer. The function of this full-time, program is to advance with other participants.the content of individual work through critique, lectures, museum and gallery visits and dialogue"

Previous and Future Speakers and Artist/Lecturers Include:

Tina Barney
Charlotte Cotton / Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Elinor Carucci
Roe Etheridge
Joseph Maida
Roxana Marcoci / The Museum of Modern Art
Vik Muniz
Eva Respini / The Museum of Modern Art
Collier Schorr
Taryn Simon
Larry Sultan
Eric Weeks
James Welling

Flash Forward 2009 Emerging Photographers: Presented by the Magenta Foundation

2009-11-01T18:29:00.000-08:00

Winner of the "Flash Forward 2009 Emerging Photographers". this has culminated of a Publication with Magenta, as well as being one of the shortlisted photographer to go on a touring exhibition of Canada and the US. Currently Flash Forward 2009 has exhibited at the Lennox Contemporary in Toronto and now moves down to Washington DC for The Foto Week 2009 DC Festival.

Further exhibition dates will be added over the coming year. so keep posted.

This Edition of the Publication includes the work and comments of previous winners, and the my surprise Edar Martins, was a winner a few years ago! From reading though the publication, Flash Forward really seems to be making its mark on the Photography world, as many of the previous winners have already started to make huge impacts in there retrospecitive fields of Photography. Be it Art, Editorial or Documentary.

To Purchase The Flash Froward Publication please follow this link'

http://www.magentafoundation.org/books/flash-forward-2009/