Archive 2010-11
James Hugonin
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:00:00 BST
- End: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:00:00 BST
Hugonin’s paintings are composed of marks of close toned colour with an underlying grid, each mark shifting slightly from its neighbour and building to a rhythmic whole. These are deeply subtle paintings with an understated clarity: quietly musical and filled with a kind of contained light that relates keenly to the place in which they are made. There is a slow and deliberate colour notation that forms an integral part of the making of each work. As Michael Harrison (Director of Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge) has observed, “the paintings carry with them that pace, that slowness, that sense of time. They ask us to slow down, and to look, and to settle as we would to listen to a piece of music, allowing time to take effect – to acknowledge that, for all their quietness and stillness, our relationship to them is one of continual change.
James Hugonin was born in 1950 in County Durham. He received an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art in 1975. He lives and works in rural Northumberland with artist Sarah Bray. His work has appeared in many group exhibitions in Britain and Europe and he has had a number of solo exhibitions including the Serpentine Gallery, London, 1991, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 1996, BALTIC, Gateshead and De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, 2006 and most recently at the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, 2010. He has forthcoming group exhibitions at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and the Royal Academy, London in 2011. Hugonin is represented by the Ingleby Gallery.