Richard Dean Hughes (b. 1987, Manchester, UK) lives and works in Manchester, UK. He describes the slippery relationship between the real and hypothetical. Hughes often revisits and describes a personal and internal space, taking artifacts, feelings and ‘visuals’ from imagined scenarios, bringing them into real time through the manipulation of material and collisional objects. His sculptures question the idea of plausibility, they question their own existence, acting as a representational display of the space in which Hughes is trying to describe. Select recent exhibitions include: Spherical Sadness,Piccalilli Gallery, London (2024);  And the Safe Spots Become Impassable, Hong Kong (2024);  Twelve Thousand, Duo Show with Nicola Ellis, Manchester (2024); A Mirror to Vanity, Brooke Bennington, London (2024) and NADA Art Fair New York, Xxijra Hii Gallery (solo presentation, 2024).