After Fragments by Hannah Hughes

After Fragments

Artworks by Hannah Hughes

Exhibition Run: Friday 31 July-Saturday 12 September 2026

OPENING TIMES: 10am-5.00pm (Mondays-Fridays); 12pm-5pm (Saturdays)

Swedenborg House is pleased to announce After Fragments: a multimedia solo exhibition by artist Hannah Hughes. The 'material fragments' Hughes presents—across collage, ceramics and drawings—resonate with Swedenborg's conceptualisation of 'representatives', and invite renewed attention to his use of words respectively often translated as 'form', 'shape', 'object' and 'vessel', as James Wilson has written in an accompanying text.

"After Fragments investigates ideas of passage and transformation expressed by material fragments. The works in the exhibition consider realities beyond the everyday function of things, where new resonances are encountered between knowledge and form. The exhibition features a series of collages constructed from negative spaces in photographs, evoking uncanny still life arrangements where misplaced shadows and shallow topographies reveal tentative relations. A series of ceramic vessels and corresponding drawings use the cross-section as a method of speculation, where apertures, channels and stratigraphic truncations reveal an inner logic.

After Fragments reflects on the duality of the relationship between parts and wholes, the entanglements of things with place and time, and the symbolic potency of fragments intentionally broken or incomplete. Its cumulative outcome is a visual excavation connecting the material fragment with its speculative potential for symbolism and use."

—Hannah Hughes's artist's statement

HANNAH HUGHES is a London-based visual artist working across collage, photography and sculpture. She graduated from the University of Brighton in 1997, and she is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Gloucestershire. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with recent examples including the solo exhibition Solid Slip at Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, Germany (2024); and group exhibitions Material Language | Language Material, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK (2025); London Lives, Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK (2025); and Material Thinking, Lightbox Gallery & Museum, Woking, UK (2024) among others. Her first book Mirror Image was published by Jane & Jeremy in 2023; and she has participated in two collaborative publications with artist Dafna Talmor, Glossaries, published by Folium in association with Sid Motion Gallery (2023) and Glossaries II, as part of Emic Units 1, published by Shibboleth (2023). Her work is included in Material Immaterial (2018-20) an experimental publication by Rodrigo Orrantia; and Look At This If You Love Great Photography: A critical curation of 100 essential photos by Gemma Padley (Ivy Press, 2021).

Photo credit: Hannah Hughes, Superposition (Hollow), 2026. Unique collage, archival pigment printed papers. 11.2cm x 12.5cm. Courtesy of the artist.