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Jane Hughes
Recent Work
Come Hither
This overarching title of these recent paintings reflects the weight of societal expectations on women to be desirable. The women in these paintings are in the bedroom, some in revealing clothes with gestures which could imply sexual availability, but their expressions cannot be misread. They are not prizes to be passed around, and they will not be weighed down
Tuck In. 2025. 50x50 cm oil on canvas
Wait there. 2025. 50x50cm oil on canvas
Leave it out. 2025. 70x70cm oil on canvas
It's Curtains. 2025. 90x90cm oil on canvas
The Triptych is painted on a discarded wallpaper trestle table. The focus is on the place of artifice. The mask of make-up and how beauty products are adopted as tools of conformity, in which ideals and concepts of ‘perfect’ femininity are actualised.
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