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SUMMARY:Art exhibition by Irish artist Jane Hughes - Everything Soft Slowly Turned to Bone
DESCRIPTION:Everything Soft Slowly Turned to Bone\nThere is a moment when something crumbles\, when what was once pliable—soft\, yielding—hardens\ninto something else entirely. A ruin is never just a ruin; it is a record of movement\, of shifting ground\,\nof the slow work of erosion. This is the terrain Jane Hughes navigates. \nThis summer\, The North Atlantic Lighthouse presents Everything Soft Slowly Turned to Bone\, the first\nexhibition of Hughes’s work in Denmark. Her paintings hold the quiet evidence of change\, of\nlandscapes dissolving and reforming\, of memories slipping into something less tangible. She is a\ncollector of traces: faded photographs\, fragments of rock\, the skeletal remains of places that were\nonce whole.\nThere are images here—ruins\, tide-worn cliffs\, moss creeping over stone—but they do not settle. They\nshift\, blur\, dissolve into abstraction before reforming again. Hughes is interested in what lingers. The\nholy wells\, the forgotten forests\, the islands that once held whole civilizations and now hold only the\nweight of their ghosts. She is drawn to fossils\, to the way they surface unexpectedly\, offering proof\nthat something once existed. The arching forms that appear throughout her paintings are borrowed\nfrom fossils she found on the Aran Islands\, remnants of prehistoric creatures embedded in rock. They\ndrift from one painting to another like echoes\, like the memory of an outline.\nHughes works with paint the way an archaeologist works with earth—layer by layer\, uncovering\nsomething just beneath the surface. She pieces her paintings together like a puzzle where half the\npieces are missing\, constructing something whole from fragments. She is interested in deep time\, in\nthe vast stretch of history that came before us\, in the belief systems and rituals that shaped those who\nwalked these landscapes long before we did.\nAnd yet\, her paintings do not feel like relics. There is movement here\, a pulse beneath the surface.\nThere is color—not the washed-out tones of nostalgia but something richer\, something insistent.\nHughes does not recreate the past; she moves through it\, dissolving borders between memory and\ngeography\, between belonging and distance.\nAbout The Artist\nJane Hughes (b. 1984\, Ireland) lives and works in Finland\, though before that\, she spent more than a\ndecade in Berlin. She is a painter\, though her practice expands into drawing\, sculpture\, and\ninstallation. Always\, she is looking for what remains.\nShe has exhibited internationally since 2005\, beginning with a group exhibition in the Netherlands\nwhile still a student. Recent solo exhibitions include We Gulp Dark Moons (Galleria Napa\, Finland\,\n2024)\, These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruins (TM•Gallery\, Helsinki\, 2023)\, and\nArchitecture of Emotions (Custom House Studios\, Ireland\, 2018). Her work has been shown in group\nexhibitions in museums and galleries in Ireland\, Germany\, Sweden\, France\, Latvia\, Russia\, and beyond.\nShe has undertaken residencies at places that hold histories of their own—Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Co.\nMonaghan\, Ireland\, 2022)\, Áras Éanna Arts Centre (Inis Oírr\, Ireland\, 2021)\, and Stundars Museum\n(Finland\, 2015). She studied at Aalto University in Helsinki\, at UDK in Berlin\, at the National College of\nArt & Design in Dublin.\nHer paintings are held in public collections: the Irish State Collection (Department of Foreign Affairs)\,\nthe Finnish National Gallery\, the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa\, the National Irish Visual Arts\nLibrary. Her current work is kindly supported by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation\, Finland\, for 2025.
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