Natalya Hughes’ work brings together decorative and ornamental traditions and their associations with the feminine, the body, and excess. The artist’s recent body of work, acquired for the NGV Collection, investigates the relationship between modernist painters and their anonymous women subjects.
Hear Hughes reflect on the processes of making the work as she speaks with Anna Honan, Curatorial Project Officer of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture at NGV.
The NGV warmly thanks MECCA for supporting the acquisition of these works.
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Natalya Hughes‘ multidisciplinary practice, inclusive of paintings, textiles, sculpture and installation examines the feminine, the body and excess. In 2023 Hughes presented a major interactive exhibition, The Castle of Tarragindi, at the Children’s Art Centre at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane. Hughes was awarded the 2022 Michaela and Adrian Fini Fellowship by the Sheila Foundation that supported the creation of an institutional solo exhibition, The Interior, at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane and subsequent national tour. In 2023, she was an Artist in Residence at The State Buildings, Perth. In 2019, she completed the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Open Studio residency. Hughes is the second of five contemporary Australian artists to feature at Open Studio.
Anna Honan is Curatorial Project Officer of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture at the National Gallery of Victoria.
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