Allan Hughes is an artist, and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at 51. In 2010 he completed his PhD, "Screening The Voice: synchronisation, authority & objet petit a", at the University of Ulster under Professors Willie Doherty and Kerstin Mey. He is currently Programme Leader for the BA Hons Fine Art. He is a member of the Curatorial and Collaborative Practices research group and is engaged in collaborative art practice with Blue Mountain Arcturus and NEUSCHLOSS.
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 51 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 51 staff well-being centre.
Fine Art PhD September 01 2006
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