[1] Andy Hughes

These two recent works were created whilst living on Gapado Island. Hughes's artworks often draw particular attention to the depiction and presentation of plastic pollution and nascent ecological anxieties. Fascinated by the work of British artist Paul Nash and his concepts surrounding quasi-scientific taxonomies in respect of objects. These works combine elements of resemblance to both natural and unnatural materials set upon an imaginary seascape. One plastic object and one rock form rest upon a sea surface reminiscent of J G Ballard's oxygen permeable membrane of plastic waste in the novel The Drought.