Patrick Hughes

Born 1939

Autumn Leaves

Water colour on paper

1986

27cm (10.5in) x 19cm (7.5in)

An exhibition and auction of works donated by British & international artists to raise funds for the Helen Bamber Foundation

5 - 7 May 2009 at

Maddox Arts, 52 Brook's Mews,

London W1K 4ED

Patrick Hughes was born in Birmingham, England in October 1939. His first exhibition was in 1961 and his first reverspective was made in 1964. He has been exhibiting with Angela Flowers Gallery since 1970.
He has written and collated three books on visual and verbal rhetoric.

Biography

1976 - Angela Flowers Gallery, London; Jordan Gallery, London; Wills Lane Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall

1978 - Angela Flowers Gallery, London; Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast; Tom Caldwell Gallery, Dublin; Gallery 39, Manchester

1983 - Angela Flowers Gallery, London; Bede Gallery, Jarrow; Edward Weston Galleries, New York; Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA; Hereford City Art Gallery, Hereford

1986 - Studio Show, London (Watercolours), Salthouse Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall

1988 - Angela Flowers Gallery, London, 50 Watercolours, Dean Clough Art Gallery, Halifax

1991 - Worthing Museum and Art Gallery; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland; Flowers East, London

1993 - Made in Perspective, Flowers East at London Fields, London, The Shadow of War and Other Works, Flowers East, London

1994 - Vanishing Points, City Art Galleries, Manchester, Retroperspectives, Flowers East at London Fields, London

1996 - Superspectives, Flowers East at London Fields, London, Patrick Hughes at Susan Kasen Summers, New York

1997 - Deutsche Museum, Munich, Germany; Lexus Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Studio Show, London; Reverspective, Flowers East at London Fields, London

1998 - Perspectivity, Flowers West, Santa Monica, Los Angeles; Perverspective, Flowers East at London Fields, London; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

1999 - The Movies, Flowers West, Santa Monica, USA; Deeperspective, Flowers East at London Fields, London

2000 - Louis K Meisel, New York; Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago; Belloc Lowndes Fine Art, Chicago; Improperspective, Flowers West, Santa Monica, California; Mira Goddard Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2001 - Properspective, Flowers East, London; Park Ru Sook Gallery, Korea; Flowers Central, London; Recent Works, Louis K Meisel, New York; Hyperspective, Flowers West, Santa Monica; Flowers East at London Fields

2002 - Ripperspective, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham; Belloc Lowndes, Chicago; Russeck Gallery, San Francisco, California

2003 - Whooperspective, Flowers East, London; Percepspective, Artower, Athens; Experspective, Flowers West, Santa Monica; Park Ru Sook Gallery, Korea; Jo Hyun Gallery, Korea; Mira Godard, Toronto, Canada; Patrick Hughes Multiples, Flowers Graphics, London

2004 - Doors Etc, Flowers, New York; Art Chicago, Chicago; Galerie Vieleers, Amsterdam; Midlands Art Centre, Michigan; Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen, Colorado; Flowers Central, London; Patrick Hughes at Nippon Tuk, Hilton London Metropole; London Dreaming, Flowers East, London; The Freud Museum , London; Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan; Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York .

2005 - Escaperspective, Keller & Greene , California; Imperspective, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh ; Impossible, Flowers Graphics, London; Perplexspective, Flowers, New York

2006 - Permanentspective, Flowers East, London; Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham; American Institute of Physics, New York

1962 - Critics Choice, Tooth's Gallery, London; New Approaches to the Figure, Arthur Jeffries, London; Drawing Towards Painting, Arts Council

1973 - Drawing Biennale, Middlesborough; Angela Flowers 10; Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh;
Earnshaw and Hughes, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

1974 - Bradford Print Biennale; British Painting, Hayward Gallery, London; Small Paintings, Angela Flowers Gallery, London.

1975 - Chichester Open Exhibition; Drawing Biennale, Middlesborough; Dada after Dada, JPL Fine Arts, London; Envelopes, JPL Fine Arts, London; Collage, Angela Flowers Gallery, London

1976 - 5th International Print Biennale, Bradford ; An Octet from Angela Flowers; Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Doors, Camden Arts Centre, London; Small is Beautiful Part II, Angela Flowers Gallery, London; The Deck of Cards, JPL Fine Arts, London; Dartist, Newlyn Orion Galleries, Newlyn, Cornwall; Prints and Other Things, Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall.

1977 - Third International Drawing Biennale, Middlesborough; Westward TV Open Competition, Truro;
Miniatures, Coracle Press, London; Tolly Cobbold/Eastern Arts, Cambridge; Crown Art Exhibition, Reed House, London; South West Artists, Artists Market, London; To The Lighthouse, Wills Lane Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall; British Artists' Prints 1972-1977, Scandinavia.

1978 - The Transformation Review, Angela Flowers Gallery, London; Surrealism Unlimited, Camden Arts Centre, London; Foundlings, Coracle Press, London; Coriander Studio Prints, Curwen Gallery, London; John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool; Coriander Studio Prints, Jordan Gallery, London; Metamorphoses, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.

1979 - Mixed Graphics, Aberbach Fine Art, London; 6th International Print Biennale, Bradford; Flowers, Francis Kyle Gallery, London; 2nd National Exhibition, Tolly/Cobbold Eastern Arts; Contemporary Art for Charterhouse Street, London; 14 Artists' Portfolios, Graffiti, London; Cleveland Drawing Biennal; 5th Westward TV Open Art Competition; A Cold Wind Brushing the Temple, Arts Council of Great Britain; The British Art Show, Arts Council of Great Britain.

1982 - Twelve by Twelve, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery; Snow, Angela Flowers Gallery, London; Coriander Studio, Thumb Gallery, London; Interiors, Curwen Gallery, London

1983 - 6th International Biennale of Humour and Satire, Gabrova, Bulgaria; Images for Today, Brighton Polytechnic; Small is Beautiful Part III, Angela Flowers Gallery, London.

1984 - Trapping the Elusive, Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex and touring; The Monoprint Show, Angela Flowers Gallery, London; In The Spirit of Surrealism, Bradbury & Birch, London.

1985 - Big Paintings, Angela Flowers Gallery, London; A View from my Window, Angela Flowers Gallery, London; 5th Tolly Cobbold/Eastern Arts, Cambridge.

1986 - Contrariwise, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Flower Show, Stoke on Trent Museum and touring; sixteen Artists: Sixteen Years, Angela Flowers Gallery, London; Humour in Art, Cleveland Art Gallery; Surrealist Revelation, James Birch Gallery, London.

1987 - Drawings Summer '87, Angela Flowers Gallery, London; On a Plate, Serpentine Gallery, London; Art Project, Southampton General Hospital; Small is Beautiful Part IV: Landscape, Angela Flowers Gallery, London; Sixteen Artists, Process and Product, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh.

1988 - Surrealism is Dead: Long Live Surrealism, Crawshaw Gallery, London; Contemporary Portraits, Flowers East, London; Small is Beautiful Part VI, Flowers East, London; Freedom: A Celebration of Artists and Illustrators, Flowers East, London; Les Coleman and Patrick Hughes, Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax.

1989 - Big Paintings, Flowers East, London; Angela Flowers (Ireland) Inc., County Cork, Ireland; Art LA '89, Los Angeles, USA; The Advent Calendar, Gallery North, Kirby Lonsdale; Drawn to Humour, Cleveland Gallery; A Tribute to Cubism, Blackman Harvey, London; Tricks and Transformations, City Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley.

1990 - Angela Flowers Gallery 1990, Barbican Concourse Gallery, London; A Permanent State of Lucidity, John Bonham Murray Feely Fine Art, London; Badge Art Two, Flowers East, London
Rainforest Festival Art Auction, Bonhams, London; Art 21'90 Basle, Switzerland; Cubism, Blackman Harvey, London.

1991 - Small is Beautiful Part VIII, Flowers East, London; Funny Looking, Liege, Belgium; Flowers East at Watermans, Watermans Art Centre, London; The Large Print Show, Jill George Gallery, London.

1992 - Artist's Choice, Flowers East, London; The Downeen Collection, Crawford Gallery, Cork; Brittle Winds, John Bonham Murray Feely Fine Art, London; British Art comes to St Helena , St Helena.

1993 - But Big is Better, Flowers East, London; New Work, Flowers East at London Fields, London; Small is Beautiful Part XI: Homages, Flowers East, London.

1994 - After Redoute, Flowers East, London; The Downeen Decade, Angela Flowers Gallery (Ireland) Inc., County Cork; Small is Beautiful Part XII: Night and Day, Flowers East at London Fields, London.

1995 - Patrick Hughes and Alison Watt at Riverside Studios, London; The Twenty Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East at London Fields, London; Flowers at Koplin, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles; Small is Beautiful Part XIII: Food and Drink, Flowers East, London.

1996 - Angela Flowers (Ireland) Inc., County Cork, Patrick Hughes and Jeffery Edwards at the Riverside Studios, London; Small is Beautiful Part XIV: Sex, Flowers East at London Fields, London;
The Print Show, Flowers Graphics, London.

1997 - Angela Flowers Gallery 1997, Flowers East at London Fields, London; Angela Flowers (Ireland) Inc., County Cork; Print, Riverside Studios, London; Small is Beautiful Part XV: Death, Flowers East at London Fields, London.

1998 - Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen; Rene Magritte and Contemporary Art, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend.

1999 - Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; Perspective, Kunsthalle Budapest , Hungary; Small is Beautiful, Part XVII: Millennium, Flowers East at London Fields, London.

2000 - Odapark, Venray, Netherlands; Angela Flowers Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East, London and Flowers West, Santa Monica, California; La College a la Collegiale, Collegiale Saint-Andre, Chartres; Ubu in the UK, Mayor Gallery, London; Artist's Choice, Flowers East, London; Landscape, Mira Goddard, Toronto; Small is Beautiful XVIII: Self Portrait, Flowers East, London; Flowers East at London Fields, London.

2001 - Near and Far, Louis K Meisel, New York; British Art Show, British Consulate, New York;
Small is Beautiful XIX: Still Life, Flowers East, London.

2002 - Head On: Art with the Brain in Mind, Science Museum, London; 32 Years of Angela Flowers Gallery, Flowers East, London; Flowers Central Nine, Flowers Central, London; East 2, Flowers East, London; Paint on Print, Flowers Graphics, London; Flowers Central Ten, Flowers Central, London; Osuga / Hughes from Palm Beach, Flowers West, California; Small is Beautiful XX: Voyage, Flowers East, London.

2003 - The Post-Industrial Landscape ,Czech Museum of Modern Art, Czech Republic; New British Art- Part 1, Flowers, New York; New British Art- Part 2, Flowers, New York; 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers West, California; Art Tower Agora, Athens, Greece; Small is Beautiful XXI: War and Peace, Flowers Central, London.

2004 - Flowers West at Keller and Greene, California; Art Apartment, Flowers Central, London; Gallery Selections, Flowers, New York; Convincing Illusions, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York; Suprise! Modern Art in Norfolk Private Collections, Timothy Gurney Gallery at Norwich Castle, Norwich; Dreaming, Flowers East, London; Six Real Painters, Flowers Central, London; Small is Beautiful XXII, Flowers Central, London.

2005 - Contemporary British Art, The Millinery Works Gallery, London; Foster Art Collection, Foster Art, London; Angela Flowers Gallery 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East, London; Genialmente, Arte e Cervello, Trieste, Italy; Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London; Escaperspective, Keller & Greene Gallery, Los Angeles.

Apax Partners Holdings Ltd; Arts Council of Great Britain; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham; Centrica plc; CNA Insurance, Chicago; Cox Insurance Holdings PLC; Denver Art Museum;
Deutsche Bank AG, London; Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt; Dudley Art Gallery; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Museum of Modern Art, Glasgow; Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery; Goldman Sachs International; Goldsmiths Hall; Hanjin Shipping Co, Seoul; Hereford City Art Gallery; Isle of Man Arts Council; J Walter Thompson; Leeds City Art Gallery; Leeds University; Leicestershire Educational Authority; Lloyds TSB Group plc, London; Manchester City Art Gallery; Nasher Museum of Art of Duke University, North Carolina; Northeastern University; Phillip Morris Collection, New York; Procter & Gamble, Surrey; Rexfield CC, Woogin Group, Seoul; Royal National Institute for the Blind; Sheffield City Art Gallery; Swire Group, Hong Kong; Tate Gallery, London; The British Council; The British Library, London; The Contemporary Art Society; Time Out Group, London; University of Houston, Texas; University College of Wales, Aberystwyth; Victoria & Albert Museum; Westdeutsche Landesbank, London; Wolverhampton City Art Gallery

Upon the Pun: Dual Meaning in Words and Pictures, P. Hughes, P. Hammond, London , (W.H. Allen), 1978
Vicious Circles and Infinity. An Panoply of Paradoxes, P. Hughes, G. Brecht, (N.Y. Doubleday), 1975
Behind the Rainbow, B. Smith, P. Hughes, (Paradox Publishing Ltd), 1983
More on Oxymoron, P. Hughes, (Jonathan Cape Ltd.), 1984
Perverspective, John Slyce, (Momentum Publishing), 1998

Geometric Form, Open University, BBC2, 1995; Oil on Canvas, Smart TV, 1997; Alex O'Connell, The Times, 3rd May 2002; Barbara A. MacAdam, Infinity and Beyond, Art News, March 2004

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