VCA ART 2021

Harry Zed Hughes

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)

I paint theatrical psychic landscapes that use languages drawn from art history, such as romanticism, abstraction and the baroque. Illusions of space and atmosphere, seek to have a bodily impact on the viewer. This is confounded by painterly applications, which unapologetically delight in the daubs, drips and drenches of pure pigments and mediums.

In the land of the psyche everything is mind, every plant, mountain and cloud. All substance is malleable and flowing. Each painting is a circus troupe of avatars that hope to meet and dance with the avatars of your structure of experience.

Harry Zed Hughes, the universe is leaking, Oil on canvas, 85 x 105 cm, 2021.
Harry Zed Hughes, Humanity rolling over the infinite plane of consciousness, 85 x 105 cm, Oil on canvas, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.
Harry Zed Hughes, Timeless watch, Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm, 2021.
Harry Zed Hughes, Infinite meaning orgy, Butter, piano, baby, violin, ants, san pedro, oil on canvas, selves, 2020.
Harry Zed Hughes, Ulysses and the promethians deriding saturn and the fires of self consuming equality, Oil on canvas, 150 x 190 cm, 2017/2021.
Harry Zed Hughes, Ulysses and the promethians deriding saturn and the fires of self consuming equality, Oil on canvas, 150 x 190 cm, 2017/2021.
Harry Zed Hughes, Homunculus crossing the alps on Life-world, 51 x 41 cm, Oil on canvas, 2021.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nations, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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