Biography
Sara Hughes
b. 1971 Vancouver, Canada
Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
Education
2000-2001 Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University (Master of Fine Arts)
1999 Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University (Bachelor of Fine Art)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 The Big Stickup, Suter Art Gallery, Nelson
2006 Crash, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
The Big Stickup, Hazlehurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
2005 Patterns of Resistance, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
Wish you Were Here, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Beyond the Horizon, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington
2004 Digital Mosaics, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland
Love Me True, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland
Digital Mosaics, Hocken Library, Otago University, Dunedin
For my Darling, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington
2003 Millions of Colours, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington
Love me Tender, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
2002 Dot.Land, Te Tuhi, The Mark, Auckland
Places for Paintings, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland
2001 Dot, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University
2000 Made in Hong Kong, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 In Fluorescents, (with Tim Maguire, Jeff Koons, Reuben Paterson and Karl Maughan) Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
Sara Hughes: Flower Wall, Te Manawa Gallery, Palmerston North
New Painting: Digital Age, Pataka Gallery, Porirua, Wellington
2006 Pattern Recognition, Object, Sydney
Op Shop, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
Melbourne Art Fair, Gow Langsford Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Snake Oil, Recent acquisitions from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery
Wallace Trust Art Awards
Norsewear Award, Hawke’s Bay Cultural Centre
Megan Keating and Sara Hughes, Criterion Gallery, Tasmania
Rotterdam Art Fair, Canvas International Art, Rotterdam Netherlands
Code NZ, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004 Cutting Edges, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney
Telecom Prospect: New Art New Zealand, Wellington City Art Gallery
A Cut Across, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart Australia
Melbourne Art Fair, Bartley Nees Gallery, Melbourne
Sticky, Whitecliffe Gallery, Auckland
2003 Shine, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland
Dirty Pixels, Adam Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington
Dirty Pixels, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Dirty Pixels, Waikato Museum of Art & History, Hamilton
Millions of Colours, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington
2002 Screens, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland
Vavasour Godkin Artists at G2, G2 Gallery, Auckland
New Works, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland
Dirty Pixels, Artspace, Auckland
2001 Provenance, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
Window Work, Elam Arts festival, Auckland
Summer Show (Matrix), Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland
2000 From, Ramp Gallery, Hamilton
1999 Stewed, Canterbury Arcade, Auckland
Upstarts, Peter Muir Petford Gallery, Auckland
Selected Awards and Grants
2005 Wallace Trust Art Awards, Paramount Winner
Norsewear Award 2005, 2D Winner
2004 Waikato National Art Award, Merit
2003 Frances Hodgkins Fellowship recipient
Creative New Zealand Grant
2001 Joe Raynes Scholarship, Auckland University
2000-2001 Auckland University Masters Scholarship
1991 Denise Gerald Scholarship, Auckland University
Commissions
2006 All my dreams fulfil, Lowe Advertising, Auckland
2005 Firewall, St Kentigern College, Auckland
2004 Garden for Joseph, Darling Island Apartments, Sydney
Soft-ware, Auckland University commission
Public and Private Collections
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
University of Auckland Art Collection, Auckland
Musuem of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
Hocken Pictorial Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
Wallace Trust Collection
Private collections in Australia and New Zealand
Selected Bibliography
2006 Devenport, Rhana, The Big Stick Up: Sara Hughes, Sydney: Hazlehurst Regional Gallery
McNamara, T.J, ‘Powerful work on a crash course’, New Zealand Herald, Wednesday May 17, 2006
Roke, Rebecca, ‘Dot dot dot’, Monument, issue 72, 2006
(Cover) Art Monthly Australia, issue 192
2005 Avery, Susan, Australian Art Collector, Autumn 2005
Chappel, Dan, ‘Love thy neighbour’ in NZ Art News, Winter 2005
Daly-Peoples, John (2005), ‘Two dimensional op art scores top prize’, The National Business Review, September 30, p49
Gardiner, Sue, Art Monthly, No. 177, Australia, March 2005
Kaplan, Richard, ‘New Zealand Art’ in Art in America, September 2005
Leonard, Robert, Snake Oil (exhibition catalogue), Auckland Art Gallery
McCaughley, Tania, (2005) ‘Aucklanders delighted with Norsewear wins, Hawkes Bay Today, Saturday 2nd April, 2005
Paton, Justin, How to Look at a Painting, Awa Press (Pub), New Zealand
2004 Angeloro, Dominique, (2004) ‘Scissors, Paper, Art’, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 April, p26
Brennan, Stella, (2004) ‘Pattern Recognition: The Art of Sarah Hughes’, Art New Zealand, no.112, Spring, pp 70-73, 98-99
Clifford, Andrew, ‘Maths inspires designing woman’, The New Zealand Herald, Wednesday 30th June
Lambert, Jessie (2004) “Love Me Tender’, North & South, March, 2004
Lornie, Bridie, (2004) ‘Mathematica’, The New Zealand Listener, no.192, March, p 60
McNamara, T.J, (2004) ‘Works show there’s beauty in repetition’, The New Zealand Herald, 19 May
Parkinson, Jaenine, ‘Dirty Pixels’, NZ Art Monthly, www.nzartmonthly.co.nz, April 2004
Paton, Justin et al, (2004) Love Me Tender, Software for Ada, Digital Mosaics, Dunedin: Hocken Library, University of Otago
Pendergrast, Kelly, (2004) ‘Mosaics of the Artist as a Young Woman’, Critic Te Arohi, No. 8, p26-27
Watson, Aaron, (2004) ‘Sara Hughes’, Art Zone, no.4, pp 40-43
2003 Dunn, Michael, (2003), New Zealand Painting: A Concise History, 2, Auckland: Auckland University Press
Ellis,Kim, (2003) ‘Interview with Sara Hughes; Frances Hodgkins Fellow’, NZ Art Monthly, www.nzartmonthly.co.nz
Smith, Charmian, (2003) “Love art a paisley-patterned thing”, Otago Daily Times, October 9
2002 Brennan, Stella & Hanna Scott (2002) Dirty Pixels, Auckland; Artspace
Jones, Susan Campbell (2002), Dot.Land, Manukau, Te Tuhi The Mark
McNamara, T.J, (2002) ‘Dot.land’, review, The New Zealand Herald, January 28
McNamara, T.J, ‘Places for Paintings’, review, The New Zealand Herald, July 15
Williams, Bill (2002) ‘Hodgkins Fellowship for Elam Graduate’, University of Auckland News, University of Auckland
2001 Vrbancic, Mario (2001), ‘Sublime or Ridiculous“ in Paintings/Sara Hughes, catalogue essay
2000 Laird, Tessa (2000), Made in Hong Kong, Auckland; George Fraser Gallery