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Sara Hughes (born 1971) is a Canadian-born New Zealand artist.

Background

Hughes was born in 1971 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She graduated in 2001 from the Elam School of Fine Arts with a Masters of Fine Arts.

Career

Hughes is a painter and installation artist.

Hughes is represented in Auckland by Gow Langsford Gallery and in Melbourne by Sutton Gallery.

Work by Hughes are included in some of public collections including the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and the National Gallery of Australia.

In 2023 she was commissioned to create art works called Colour Quartet to be sold to raise funds for the restoration of Kāhui St David's a music centre in Khyber Pass Rd, Auckland.

Residencies

• 2008/09 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency
• 2008 Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, NC

Awards

• 2005 Wallace Arts Trust paramount award
• 2005 Norsewear Art Award
• 2003 Frances Hodgkins Fellowship

References

1. "Sara Hughes". findnzartists.org.nz. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
2. ^ "Sara Hughes". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
3. ^ "Artist Profile - Sara Hughes". Sutton Gallery. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
4. "Sara Hughes". Gow Langsford Gallery. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
5. "Sara Hughs, Collections Online". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
6. "NGA collection Sara Hughes". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
7. "Saving St David's: Transforming a church into a centre for music". RNZ. 30 November 2023. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
8. ^ "Sara Hughes awarded Berlin Visual Art Residency". Scoop News. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
9. 20 years of Artists-In-Residence McColl Center
10. "2005: Sara Hughes". Wallace Arts Trust. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
11. "The Frances Hodgkins Fellowship". University of Otago. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

Further reading

Artist files for Sara Hughes are held at:

• Angela Morton Collection, Takapuna Library
• Te Aka Matua Research Library, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
• Fine Arts Library, Te Herenga Toi The University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services
• E. H. McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
• Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena
• Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

External links

• Official website

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