British artist Harriet Hughes lives and works in Gloucestershire’s rural creative scene. Using a diverse range of mediums her work spans drawing, printmaking, sculpture (including textile), photography, collage and painting. Hughes explores production and labour using dolls as her primary image, incorporating a decorative, kitsch visual language in order to critique consumerism as well as the unpaid labour of women. By using the pasts advertisement narratives, beauty standards and gender roles, now seen as absurd, she satirises the ways in which misogyny continues to exploit women in order to produce profit at their expense.
Hughes was born in Milton Keynes, England going on to study at Hereford College of Arts. In 2021 her work was shown as part of the Tate Collective’s digital display at the opening of Tate Britain’s ‘Life Between Islands’ show. She has been involved in the local creative scene since 2022 and has been involved with many projects and venues including Hundred Heroines: Women in Photography Today, Glossy, GAS projects, The George and The Folk of Gloucester.
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