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22 July / 27 August 2023
KEZ HUGHES
You Never Got Me Right
In an age where digital images dominate our experience, Kez Hughes’ paintings are lovingly rendered to communicate stillness, and beauty, and provide a new recording of artworks lost to their respective histories and locations.
Through repositioning and recreating paintings from existing documentary images of art, Hughes contemplates ideas of originality, authenticity, and authorship.
You never got me right brings together painted adaptations of works by Australian Artists including Lucina Lane, Heather b Swann, Olah Cohn, and Nat Ryan amongst others.
Kez Hughes lives and works in Melbourne and has been appropriating images of artists’ work since 2006. Hughes was selected for the 2023 Sulman Prize currently showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
