RECENT EXHIBITIONS

PHILIP HUGHES:
VAUCLUSE RIDGEWAY ORKNEY

FRANCIS KYLE GALLERY
18th May to 17th June 2010

The exhibition draws upon three different landscapes, each being very important to the artist over a long period.

Vaucluse: He spends a part of each year in the area of the Luberon. The emphasis is very much on the contrast between the intensely cultivated valley and the rugged mountains of the Luberon and Ventoux.

Ridgeway: There is a set of paintings of the enigmatic mound of Silbury, and then the hill forts along the Ridgeway itself.

Orkney: Recent work exhibited shows a collaboration between the artist and the archaeologists in Orkney, currently making new discoveries using the geophysical technologies.

The exhibition also includes a set of large-scale drawings mainly of stone circles.

Francis Kyle Gallery
9 Maddox Street, Mayfair, London W1S 2QE
Tel: +44 (0)20 7499 6870 / 6970
Website: franciskylegallery.com

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That gong-tormented Sea: Contemporary painters pursue the idea and the reality of Byzantium

A joint exhibition with 22 other artists. Philip was inspired by the great defensive walls of Constantinople and the rock-hewn churches of Cappadocia, in their almost surreal landscape. The maps used in two of the works are printed courtesy of the British Library Board, where they are held.

Francis Kyle Gallery
11 November 2009 - 28 January 2010
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Circles in the Landscape

The Pier Arts Centre, famous for housing a major collection of 20th Century British Art, re-opened after extensive enlargement and refurbishment. As well as its permanent collection, the gallery puts on a number of temporary exhibitions.
This exhibition, was linked to the one at Charleston, and particularly featured the nearby stone circles of Brodgar and Stenness, and Callanish in the Outer Hebrides. It also included works from a number of circles in England, amongst which were the Merry Maidens in Cornwall, given the Pier Arts Centre’s link with St Ives.

Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland
20th September to 8th November 2008
http://www.pierartscentre.com/
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Stone Circles
Charleston was the home and country meeting place of the Bloomsbury Group. It has a gallery attached which shows temporary exhibitions. The exhibition shown in this gallery was exclusively devoted to drawings of stone circles in the UK. Included were Stonehenge, Avebury and Castlerigg in England; and Callanish and Brodgar in Scotland. All the drawings, mainly in large format, were done in situ. This exhibition was linked with the exhibition held at the Pier Arts Centre in Orkney.

Charleston, Sussex, UK
29th June to 24th August 2008
http://www.charleston.org.uk/index.html
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Mountains of the Mind

The theme of the exhibition was mountains that have a particular significance, for the artist personally, or for the world in general.
Included were two mountains in the highlands of Scotland - Buachaille Etive Mor and Suilven; two in France - Mt Lassois and Mt Ventoux; and Mt Carrera in Antarctica. Also included were Silbury in Wiltshire - the tallest prehistoric mound in Europe.

The Drill Hall, Canberra, Australia
April 3rd – May 11th 2008
http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Drill_Hall_Gallery/
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Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney Australia
July 15th - August 9th 2008
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Luberon 1977-2007

26th May to end of July 2007
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This exhibition was a retrospective of the artist's work in the Luberon region over the past thirty years. As well as new work it included work borrowed from collections in Europe and the USA.

Maison de la Truffe et du Vin
Ménerbes
France

Abstracts

26th May to end of June 2007
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This exhibition ran concurrently with the other exhibition in Ménerbes. Philip Hughes has always worked on abstracts in parallel with his work based on landscape. This was the first time that there had been an exhibition entirely of abstracts and it had a selection of this work from the past 20 years.

Gallerie Pascal Lainé
Ménerbes
Vaucluse
France

Scotland: The Highlands and Islands

24th April to 31st May 2007
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The exhibition will be centered on work done in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland over a three year period.

Francis Kyle Gallery
9 Maddox Street
Mayfair
London W1S 2QE            

Tel: +44 (0)20 7499 6870 / 6970
Website: franciskylegallery.com

Pilbara & Bundanon

29th November to 17th December 2005
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The works concentrate on two locations, Pilbara in Western Australia and Bundanon on the Shoalhaven River in NSW, and is in part homage to Fred Williams and Arthur Boyd who did some of their last and finest paintings in these locations.

Rex Irwin Gallery
First Floor, 38 Queen Street,
Woollahra, NSW, 2025, Sydney, Australia

Tel: +61 (02) 9363 3212
Website: www.rexirwin.com

Jura: Assynt: Rannoch

18 June to 10 July 2005
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The Watermill Gallery
The Watermill, Mill Street,
Aberfeldy, PH15 2BG

Website: www.aberfeldywatermill.com
Exhibition arranged in association with the Francis Kyle Gallery, London

Antarctica

24th September - 23rd October 2003
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A series of works based on Hughes's experience as the first artist to visit the white continent as part of the British Antarctic Survey's Artists and Writers Programme.

Francis Kyle Gallery
9 Maddox Street
London W1R 9LE

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7499 6870
Website: www.franciskylegallery.com

Jump of the Manta Ray

7th December- 15th December 2002
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This artists book is a long dramatic poem by Carmen Boullosa translated by Psiche Hughes, illustrated by Philip Hughes and hand printed by publisher Martyn Ould at the Old School Press. Philip Hughes has used images derived from photographs from seas and shorelines in many countries. These are digitally manipulated and printed by a giclee process. The book and images have been exhibited in the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, Australia and the Star Gallery, Lewes, England.

The Tin Route

11 November 2000 - 11 March 2001

Two thousand five hundred years ago the locations of West Cornwall, North Burgundy and South Italy were linked by trade in tin. Tin was a vital commodity being an essential component of bronze. West Cornwall was the main source in Europe and the Greek communities on the Mediterranean the main users. The tin was transported by sea to the mouth of the Seine, upstream to the celtic city of Vix (near modern Chatillon) then across by land to the Soane and hence down the Rhone to the Mediterranean. This exhibition relected this extraordinary trade, both by theme and by location being shown in Tate St Ives, England; Musee Chatillonais, France and University of Lecce, Italy.