Andy Hughes studied at the Royal College of Art, London. He was the first Artist in Residence at Tate Gallery St. Ives. His photographic artworks focus on the littoral zone. For more than thirty years a preoccupation with the ‘thing-ness’ of plastic, watery worlds and coastal habitats has driven his work, which interfaces with scientific research, gamification, ruinology, philosophy, literature, art and film, including archival film.