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Issue 62 - Living in the Environment Issue

Issue 62

Living in the Environment Issue

Issue 62 is the first issue of the year and always a great time to put our best foot forward. With Adam Goodrum, the loveliest man in design, as Guest Editor, we draw on his insights as a furniture designer, artist and educator to look at the makers shaping our design world. Sustainability has never been more important, and increasingly this is a consideration from the start with projects designed to address their immediate environment as well as the longevity of the planet. From the coldest winters to the most tropical of summers, addressing how we live in the environment is crucial to creating the perfect home.

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‘Looking Full’ at Beam Contemporary
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‘Looking Full’ at Beam Contemporary

Natalya Hughes latest collection of work deconstructs, reconfigures and rewrites figurative images to form partially abstracted and highly patterned psychological worlds. Working broadly across painting, print, animation and installation, Hughes conflates the boundaries between beauty and the grotesque, realism and abstraction.

In her new series of paintings, Looking Full, Hughes continues this exploration finding, inspiration in traditional Japanese woodblock prints that depict demur female portraits. Here, Hughes reconstructs these portraits to create imagery that straddles figurative and abstract patterning. This process, together with her use of titles, such as ‘Looking Itchy’, ‘Looking Suitable’, ‘Looking as if she wants to Change’, uncovers the latent characteristics of these sitters. In turn they invite a different kind of ‘look’.

 

Natalya Hughes, Looking Cool, 2013, Acrylic on ply board. Courtesy of the artist.

 

Exhibition runs 22rd March – 27th April at Beam Contemporary; level 1, 30 guildford lane melbourne victoria 3000 australia
beamcontemporary.com.au

Hero image: Natalya Hughes, Looking as if She Wants to Change, 2013, Acrylic on ply board. Courtesy of the artist.

 

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Issue 62 - Living in the Environment Issue

Issue 62

Living in the Environment Issue

Issue 62 is the first issue of the year and always a great time to put our best foot forward. With Adam Goodrum, the loveliest man in design, as Guest Editor, we draw on his insights as a furniture designer, artist and educator to look at the makers shaping our design world. Sustainability has never been more important, and increasingly this is a consideration from the start with projects designed to address their immediate environment as well as the longevity of the planet. From the coldest winters to the most tropical of summers, addressing how we live in the environment is crucial to creating the perfect home.

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