Video: Leeds 3D art show that's off the wall - literally

HE IS an artist whose three-dimensional paintings really do seem to leap off the wall.
Patrick Hughes at the exhibition launch.Patrick Hughes at the exhibition launch.
Patrick Hughes at the exhibition launch.

British surrealist Patrick Hughes has been confounding the visual expectations of art lovers ever since his breakthrough discovery of a technique known as ‘reverspective’.

Now an exhibition of his work has begun at Leeds College of Art, where he spent five years as a lecturer during the 1960s. Speaking after attending the launch, London-based Hughes said: “I am so very happy and honoured to be invited to exhibit my pictures at Leeds College of Art, more than 50 years after I started out teaching art here.”

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Talking about his use of reverspective, he said: “My pictures seem to move as you move. They come to life when we bring them to life. This is because they are made in perspective the wrong way round, in reverspective.

Patrick Hughes at the exhibition launch.Patrick Hughes at the exhibition launch.
Patrick Hughes at the exhibition launch.

“If you bob down in front of them, it is as if you have gone up, and as you walk past to the right it is as if you have gone to the left and vice versa.”

Leeds College of Art director Simon Thorpe said it was an honour to be hosting the exhibition of “unique and incredibly engaging” work. Entitled Forwards To Backwards, the exhibition will be running at the college’s Vernon Street building in the city centre until September 9.

It features seven paintings as well as a sculptural snake made by Hughes in the college’s ceramic department in 1969.

The exhibition is one of a number of events taking place to mark Leeds College of Art’s 170th anniversary.

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