Work Archives - Kayt Hughes

Balance, Stack, Play: Exhibition

A fully interactive exhibition in Grizedale Forest’s indoor gallery space, where the audience were asked to create their own sculptures for display.

Balance, Stack, Play: Sculpture

This sculpture was designed during a school workshop with Coniston Primary School, in response to the exhibition, ‘Balance, Stack, Play’ at Grizedale Forest.

Balance, Stack, Play: Text

Balance, Stack, Play at Grizedale Forest for Sculpture

My initial idea for the show builds on my previous solo show at Gallery North, ‘My Five Year Old Could Have Done That’. The exhibition revealed some of the questions I had asked myself in the studio, which were placed around the walls of the space. These were accompanied by tests, or proposed answers to the questions as sculptural installations. Eg. “Can the blocks be made from a different material?”

Studio Stack

This piece was shown at “A Show About The Show” at Bankley Gallery, curated by Scaffold Gallery.

My Five Year Old Could Have Done That

I wanted to respond to my year as the Woon fellow, and develop the work I showed at NewBridge, to reveal a more concise and direct view of my investigations in the studio.

In Cahoots

“In Cahoots” was a residency I collaboratively ran to prompt collaboration between recent graduates in the North East.

It May Not Be Perfect But It’s Mine

This was a solo show at NewBridge Project during my Woon fellowship, where I decided to bring all the tests, objects and materials from my studio to the space to see how the work could start to perform in a gallery setting.

Modernist Coinwash

The Modernist Coinwash is a project run by Marion Piper and Lindall Pearce. “Conceived as a series of two-part sessions, the aim is to open up the possibility for personal practice development and peer connection and discussion.”

From Tokens to Totems; Five Pillars and a Platform;…

This was a group show that I was invited to take part in by Kunstpodium T, as part of their Master/Apprentice Program, with artists Ciaran Nash, Kelly Schacht, Nele Thorrez and Hannah Zandee.

Study Scores

I selected a short excerpt from “Improvisation C Major Blues” to focus on to begin to use the objects to compose, using their physical properties to make decisions, rather than just to notate.