Chris Shaw Hughes
My current work explores the ‘site of trauma’. I’m interested in how some places are ‘defined’ by the events that happen within them, and whether the aura of trauma remains, either in the places, or in our representations of them. Although I have made work using a diversity of media, I have recently been exploring the use of carbon paper as a medium. This has allowed me to investigate a kind of ‘negative’ aesthetic, which seems more appropriate when working with images of a sublime, catastrophic or traumatic nature.
Public / Private Collections
Small selection of shows:
Fallout. Two artist show with Karin Wach, Kulturmuhle Museum Parchim, 2025
Drawing Paper Show, Bridewell Studios Gallery, Liverpool, 2025 Trauma and the Sublime, postROOM, London, (solo) 2024 100 Photographs, Blumen35, Krefeld, Germany (solo), 2019 KINO, Blumen35, Krefeld, (solo), 2015 Love & Marriage, Blumen35, Krefeld, (solo) 2014