Patrick Hough works with moving image, photography, sculpture and installation. His recent work questions the relationship between humans and objects; exploring links between cinema, technology and museology through archives of historical film props. Hough is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and the Royal College of Art, London. He has a forthcoming solo exhibition: Hierophanies at The Swiss Church, London, in March 2017. Recent solo exhibitions include; Unobservables at Narrative Projects, London; An Archeology of Cinema at Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts, Russia; Once More, with Feeling! at MOT International Project Space, London and Ouarzazate at PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin. Group shows include; Crab Walk at NGCA, Sunderland; Levitate at Museums Quartier, Q21 INTERNATIONAL, Vienna; Verto at Studiocur/art, Paris; H Y P E R C O N N E C T E D at Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow and Above The Black Line at ArtPort Gallery, Tel Aviv, amongst others.
Press Release - The Jerwood/FVU Awards 2017 exhibition will premiere two newly commissioned moving-image works by selected artists Patrick Hough and Lawrence Lek, the recipients of the 2017 Awards.
In response to the curatorial theme, Neither One Thing Or Another, Hough and Lek both employ pioneering, conceptually fitting, technologies to examine the steadily blurring line between the real and the artificial. Lek harnesses his trademark - the building blocks of computer gaming technology - to set the stage for an awakening of artificial intelligence. Hough’s work takes us to the Californian desert, where the landscape was filmed and digitally scanned using LiDAR, to host a Hollywood-inspired merging of authenticity and replica. Both works delve between definitions of consciousness, and in the process invite us to ...