London-based artist Patrick Hughes (b 1939) is acclaimed for his exploration of perspective and visual paradoxes, inventing an optical illusion of three-dimensional surface where the parts of the picture which seem the furthest away are physically the nearest. The preconceived assumptions of eye and brain are challenged, inevitably raising important questions about our perception and the subconscious.
The 2017 ‘Popping’ is a three-dimensional hand-painted multiple with archival inkjet enclosed in a plexiglass box, depicting various paintings and sculptures from the Pop Art movement within New York such as American artists Robert Indiana (1928-2018), Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Keith Haring (1958-1990), and Roy Lichtenstein 91923-1997).
Patrick Hughes is represented in public collections including Tate, Victoria & Albert Museum, and the British Council.