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 2011 ‘Show’ is a three-dimensional hand-painted multiple with archival inkjet enclosed in a plexiglass box, depicting a selection of paintings, sculptures, and reverspective works by Hughes from the early 1960s to the 2000s.
Patrick Hughes is represented in public collections including Tate, Victoria & Albert Museum, and the British Council.