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Dean Hughes makes work out of familiar things: A4 paper, pins, thread, staples, backing card, paper bags, cardboard tubes, and felt tip pens. Hughes makes work that registers as an object in space with properties and values that elicit a phenomenologically-charged viewing experience. Understandably, discourse about his work frequently references the work of artists such as Tom Friedman, Sol Lewitt and Richard Tuttle, and occasionally invokes the dynamic of the modern office environment full of office supplies.Most recently Hughes has made a series of micro-architectonic wall works incorporating small hole-punched boxes made from backing card and arranged in grid-like structures. In 'Boxes' (2008), a series of boxes is presented in equal and separate spaces, four rows of three columns; a work of the same title presents the boxes without a supporting structure, and a little precariously stacked. Seen together, the works may make associations with ideas about housing or democracy, but what is there is backing card and the possibilities of its function. In his work, Hughes pays careful attention to the positions and motions of everyday inanimate objects, making visible their otherwise invisible desires.Stacy Boldrick, November 2009 (abridged)

Triangular boxes (ii)

Rows

Staged boxes

Triangular pieces (i)

Platform

8 boxes

Portrait

Marcus Coates in front of a swirling green abstract painting wearing a red t-shirt and blue latex gloves

Jacob Dahlgren sat within his metal pink sculpture

Eric Bainbridge 
Noel Clueit 
Marcus Coates 
Jo Coupe 
Jacob Dahlgren 
Rachel Foulion 
Dean Hughes 
Rachel Lancaster 
Eftihis Patsourakis 

An image of Curtain, 2011 - a photograph by Rachel Lancaster of a large felt theatre curtain

Installation images of 'Double Double' a group exhibition of works by by Eric Bainbridge, Noel Clueit, Marcus Coates, Jo Coupe, Jacob Dahlgren, Rachel Foulion, Dean Hughes, Rachel Lancaster, and Eftihis Patsourakis at Workplace | Gateshead

United Kingdom

Gateshead

WORKPLACE

Workplace Foundation

Experience contemporary art with works by Eric Bainbridge, Noel Clueit, Marcus Coates, Jo Coupe, Jacob Dahlgren, Rachel Foulion, Dean Hughes, Rachel Lancaster, and Eftihis Patsourakis.

Double, Double

Installation Views

Artworks

Noel Clueit

Dean Hughes

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Related Artists

Eric Bainbridge

Noel Clueit

Marcus Coates

Jo Coupe

Jacob Dahlgren

Rachel Foullon

Dean Hughes

Rachel Lancaster

Eftihis Patsourakis