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KEZ HUGHES
antiquities series
Focusing on the art community around her, Kez Hughes makes art about art, realist paintings that document exhibitions of her contemporaries. These paintings of paintings, sculptures or installations elaborate on issues of authenticity, subjectivity and cultural and social economies.
In these series, Hughes is turning toward more historical interests to match her new love of collecting antiquities and antiques.. When searching for artworks to appropriate she like sto find details of old artworks that have ethereal, romantic and odd qualities about them. Western visual history can be strange when you look closely at fragments of it.
After increasing her painting classes recently, Hughes’ attention has focused on classical art, it feels like a culmination of factors that have led her to include historical pieces amongst the contemporary works.
After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts and Music in 2015 with a Bachelor of Fine Art Painting, Kez has gone on to lecture at the Ian Potter Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation at Melbourne University and the Victorian College of Arts and Music. In 2015 along with artist Storm Gold, Kez opened CAVES, a curated, not for profit gallery located at the Nicholas Building in Melbourne, Australia.