Hugh Hamshaw Thomas

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas received critical acclaim in the 1990’s for his large scale installations that categorised found plastic flowers into pseudo botanical collections. These works explored ideas of mortality, trace and memory through a finely balanced play of what was being represented through simulacra.

Recent work continues the reconfiguration of pictorial and historical associations through digitally manipulated photographs of Landscape that pose challenges to how seeing is mediated by the language of art.

The work of Hugh Hamshaw Thomas depicts intimate picturesque scenes familiar to the decorative arts, trees meeting waters edge of pond or river quoting the arcadian, idealised representations of historical contexts.

In so doing pictorial conventions of colour schema and style are exposed as the signifiers of meaning.

There is a subtle negotiation of how experience, memory, nostalgia and cliche are embedded within the pictorial conventions of what Landscape depiction is so often associated.

There is an imbued sense of dwelling with nature as the mirror. Nature and our gaze on it as the mediation as to the viewers place in what we experience and how we represent it.

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

  • 2018 Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy
  • 2018 Woolwich Print Fair
  • 2019 GBS Fine Art – London Art Fair
  • 2019 GBS Fine Art – FFS – Saachi Gallery
  • 2019 Woolwich Art Fair
  • 2020 GBS Fine Art – London Art Fair

Recent Publications:

  • 2019 Featured in the Sunday Times

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

  • Prints
  • Photography
  • Digital

Mediums:

  • Digital
  • Photography
  • Prints – Other
  • Textiles – Wallhangings

Subject Matter:

  • Historical
  • Landscape
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    Jad Oakes

    London-based Jad Oakes explores the possibilities of photography and the moving image for sculptural installations, prints and photogravures.

    His works are presented as collections or bodies of work that are connected by their process, theme and technique. The main thread that ties these bodies of works together is a fascination with memory and time.

    Since 2014 he has developed and nurtured an ongoing series of small scale silent looping film installations housed in wooden sculptures titled Vessels.

    Condensed Vessel Videos:

    Dreams of Somewhere Else
    Moonscape 50
    Memory Vessel

    Using timbers of Oak, Walnut and Bog Oak these moving image sculptures seek to connect with the viewer by projecting them into an alternative space and time.

    Of the Vessels series he notes a desire to “create intimate emotive sculptures, enticing contemplation and memory.”

    Jad Oakes was awarded the Aesthetica Prize at the 2019 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition.

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    ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

    Selected Exhibitions

    2019

    • Discerning Eye Aesthetica Award
    • ING Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries
    • Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair

    2018

    • Residues – By Other Means Gallery, London
    • ING Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries
    • Meet the Members – London Print Studio
    • Identity – Kindred Studios, London

    2017

    • Unique Beauty – Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
    • Affordable Art Fair, London
    • Portrait 17 – Degree Art, London

    ARTIST SUMMARY

    Categories:

    • Prints
    • Photography
    • Sculpture

    Sculpture Type:

    • Interior
    • Tabletop

    Medium:

    • Collage
    • Digital
    • Mixed Media
    • Photography
    • Photomontage
    • Prints – Artist
    • Prints – Other
    • Sculpture – Wood
    • Sculpture – Other
    • Video/Film

    Subject:

    • Historical
    • Landscape
    • Portrait/Figurative
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    We were so keen to launch our Artist Directory we have decided to launch the first phase in advance of the costing and portfolio generation section.

    In this first phase we have included a diverse selection of artists we collaborate with.

    Over the coming months this selection will continue to grow eventually to include all of our artists.

    In the near future our artwork selection, frame visualisation and costing database will come on-line.

    This will allow the selection of artworks and frames, see a visualisation of the framed artwork and include this in a portfolio for purchase.

    If you would like further information about this artist or their available artworks please complete this form and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

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