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Dean Hughes

24 Jan-8 Mar 2014

Maria Stenfors
London WC1X 0HF

Overview

Maria Stenfors is proud to present Dean Hughes, in his first solo exhibition with the gallery. The new series is comprised of hand dyed, stitched calico shapes composed upon identical wooden slats. Calico, being unbleached and not fully processed, absorbs colour easily into the threads of equal weft and warp. Once the fabric is saturated with dye, it does not return to its original flat and uniform appearance and shows the definition and contours of the lines of dots and dashes that constitute the fabric. The geometry is allowed to relax and demonstrate the nature of the material. The work does not focus on its physicality but what the material reveals.