Jan 26, 2022
Andy Hughes Research
For almost thirty years Andy Hughes has been making images along various coastlines. It was in the late 1980s when he started photographing various items of trash along the intertidal zone. As a young art student, Hughes recalls seeing the exhibition Rubbish and Recollections, by Keith Arnett, co-organised by a renascent Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno and the Photographers’ Gallery, London. The content both inspired him and connected to his experiences living and surfing in South Wales. Between 1999 and 2006 Hughes was consumed by making images of the plastic waste matter that came to rest along the beaches where he surfed, the results of his project were published in the groundbreaking book 'Dominant Wave Theory'.
