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Natalya Hughes
I’m a firm believer in finding your own visual language by reinterpreting what already exists. Why not start with someone else’s work and make it your own? Every repetition is different.
Artist Gallery
Open Studio invites artists to curate their own Artist Gallery to display artworks by artists that inspire them. Explore the artworks that Natalya Hughes selected from the QAGOMA Collection.
View a selection of Natalya Hughes’ artworks here.
Artist Space
The Artist Space is a micro-version of the artist’s own studio. Explore images of the space to gain insights into the artist’s process.
Artist Interviews
Get to know Natalya Hughes by watching artist interviews filmed in her Brisbane studio. Natalya talks about her practice, influences, contemporary Australian painting and takes you through how her studio operates.
Artist Tutorials
Natalya Hughes is a painter and academic. Her work draws on a comprehensive knowledge of art history as well as textiles and pattern making. Her tutorials explore the body through silhouettes and symbolism through pattern making.
Curriculum Links
Art as Lens: Natalya Hughes views herself as an appropriation artist, drawing inspiration from artists, designers and craft makers from a wide range of times and cultures.
Art as Code: Hughes’s paintings, textiles and installations are loaded with codes that are often hidden within patterns and decoration.
Art as Knowledge: Natalya Hughes lectures in art history. Her knowledge of art periods, particularly modernism, is a major driver behind her practice as a contemporary female artist.
Art as Alternate: Hughes is highly critical of depictions of the female form that are generated through the male gaze. Her work addresses gaps in the representation of women through a process that analyses and reconstructs these artworks.