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Robert Alwyn Hughes
10th November - 12th January 2008

Robert Alwyn Hughes was born at Dowlais Top, Dowlais. He studied at Newport College of Art, Leicester College of Art, and the Royal College of Art. On leaving the Royal College of Art he took up the post of Lecturer in Fine Art progressing through his career to become Head of Photo Studies at Cheltenham College of Art, Cheltenham before retiring in 1990.

He founded and initiated the arts e-Newsletter 'WalesModern', and the web sites www.walesmodern.co.uk and www.welshdrawings.com both of which consist of groups of exhibiting welsh artists. He has exhibited widely in both the UK and internationally having work included in many public and private collections.

In 2006 the Newport Museum and Art Gallery showed a major retrospective of his recent work 1990-2006 under the title 'the indistinct breath of the image'. His exhibition ‘The Horseman’ showed at Cynon Valley Museum & Gallery in 2003.

‘The conception of painting in which shapes - or performers, first emerge as an unknown adventure in an unknown space… a struggle between the categorical; distinctions between abstraction and representation and the ambition to invest in non-figurative art with transcendent content, something that would rival the elemental role of myth and ritual archaic culture. In this regard ‘unknown’ pictorial space describes a realm that somehow surpasses two dimensions while avoiding the illusive three-dimensional space of conventional representation - a space that could be experienced.’
Robert Alwyn Hughes October 2007