Dr Allan Hughes

Allan Hughes' practice deploys SF and parafictional narratives to conspire in the production of remediated histories through forms of post-produced audio visual installation.

Current collaborative projects include Blue Mountain Arcturus, a fictional games research company co-managed with the artist/curator Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson; recent projects of which include the exhibition Polymorph Other at IMT Gallery, London and Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham. They are currently developing a paper on the practice for a publication on table-top utopias.

Hughes is also a member of NEUSCHLOSS; an irregular coalition of teaching staff at Northumbria University who, through collaborative practice, explore the problem of what it is to make art within the context of an academic institution. Recent projects have included an on-going engagement and reframing of the artwork Tattoo (1986/2013) by former Northumbria Fine Art lecturer David Dye (1945-2015), a live pedagogic event held within a Jason Rhoades artwork at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and a magical cleansing of the Northumbria University staff well-being centre.

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• Citadel of Chaos: An art practice to materialise an alternate present, Rohtmaa-Jackson, M., Hughes, A. 5 May 2024, Utopia On The Tabletop, Brighton, UK, Ping Press
• The Dummy Fluter, Hughes, A. 19 Dec 2024
• An Electronic Think, Hughes, A., Rohtmaa-Jackson, M. 15 Sep 2023, CUT-UPS@2023
• Art In Miniature, Hughes, A., Rohtmaa-Jackson, M. 15 Jul 2023
• Cleaved Into, Jackson, M., Hughes, A., O'Sullivan, T., Guy, L., Liston, K., Danby, C. 8 Mar 2023
• Films in Progress, Hughes, A., Jackson, M. 24 Nov 2023
• Song of Serious Workers, Hughes, A., Rohtmaa-Jackson, M. 24 Nov 2023
• Citadel of Chaos: an art practice to materialise an alternate present, Rohtmaa-Jackson, M., Hughes, A. 24 Aug 2022
• They obediently inhabit their built environment, Liston, K., Denman-Cleaver, T., Hughes, A., Newrick, J., Irvin, J., Greenyer, J. 31 Jul 2021
• Polymorph Other at Queen's Hall Arts Centre, Hughes, A., Rohtmaa-Jackson, M., Liston, K., Dorey, R., Guy, L. 18 Oct 2019

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• Invited talk: Representing Conflict through creative practices and curated spaces 2023

• Lesley Guy I am an us: Exploring the boundaries of a shared art practice Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 13/07/2025
• David Blamey The Perfect Moment: Dreaming India in Art That Aspires to Ordinary Life DREAMING INDIA IN ART THAT ASPIRES TO ORDINARY LIFE Start Date: 01/09/2021 End Date: 01/04/2025