BIOGRAPHY
Hugh Russell was still involved with his design practice when an interest in abstract structural concepts led him to explore the possibilities offered by three dimensional constructions. Subsequently Hugh created a series of works often influenced by urban architecture; by cityscapes with cropped views of high density buildings, unusual half hidden structures, brief glimpses of colour in an array of vertical forms confined to a narrow field of vision. All these effects are absorbed and recreated into his way of seeing, so that shafts of colour and recessions only become apparent when moving around each construction, an experience not unlike moving around a city complex, where colour, light and shadows appear and just as suddenly disappear.
Hugh's current work has a different concept suggesting disintegration - caught in a moment in time. They are as such 'Deconstructions'. There are manifestly contemporary connotations being displayed here. The desire to create some form of order out of perceived chaos is the core and creative motivation behind all his work.
EXHIBITIONS
2008 Royal Academy Summer Show
2006 Grand Designs Live (iam3d artists), ExCel, London
2004 Collect Exhibition, V&A Museum, London
2004 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
2004 Stables Gallery, Orleans House, Twickenham
2003 Plateaux Gallery, London