Kez Hughes

In its initial format, ‘Shuffle’ highlights a selection of acquisitions made over the past twelve months. As these works lease, they will be replaced – or shuffled – with older pieces from our collection, presenting the exhibition in a perpetually changing form. By bringing new art into dialogue with the old, ‘Shuffle’ highlights the diversity…

Kez Hughes’ painting Revolution of capital from her July exhibition has been acquired by Artbank. Artbank is part of the Australian Government Office for the Arts, in the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts.  Established in 1980 by the Australian Government, Artbank’s two core objectives are to provide direct support to Australian contemporary…

“For a while Kez Hughes was creating paintings of other artworks and sculptures from ancient and classical periods, but now her focus has enticingly shifted to temperamental landscapes and lightly surreal scenes. Partly inspired by a recent trip to Naples and the volcano Vesuvius, the paintings foremost hold a sense of time: that past moments,…

‘It is with deep consideration that Hughes reimagines objects, challenging the relationships that exist between the original artist, the viewer and herself. The act of looking is integral. We are left wondering which of these three protag¬onists holds the position of main voyeur: what is Hughes looking for? By considering objects of the past, transmuted…

Kez Hughes is a finalist in the 2024 Bayside Painting Prize Established in 2015, the Bayside Painting Prize is one of the most generous non-acquisitive painting prizes in the country. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth…