Hughes is interested in networks of analysis, methodology and interpretation. He feels that these new works share with their geographical source of origin a connection to a certain 'enlightenment' sensibility – a desire to uncover an underlying order in the apparent chaos of nature. The works take the form of corrupted abstractions that investigate, and at times conflate, various dichotomies e.g. natural/synthetic, order/entropy, abstraction/mimesis, nature/nurture. Hughes sees his activity as constructing (or, possibly, 'exposing') order within closed evolutionary systems that each conform to their own improvised sets of rules or conditions. This exhibition runs until 11th October in the Rubicon Gallery.
