Surfers Against Sewage Print Auction

Goldenshot was founded in 1999 by Nick Waplington and Chris Cooke, with the aim of bringing New York-style boutique lab working practices to the British photographer/artist.Over the last seven years our reputation has spread by word of mouth and our client list now includes David Bailey, Sam Taylor-Wood, Darren Almond and Juergen Teller.

' Beachgoers are usually more concerned with catching waves ’n’ rays than considering the implications, or the aesthetics, of the ubiquitous debris scattered about the sand. But poised against blue-sky backdrops, beach trash becomes eerily beautiful in these photographs by Andy Hughes. Brief, emotional essays by surfers, activists, and a marine ecologist, among others, bemoan the environmental toll taken by these artifacts of our commercial culture.' SEED MAGAZINE (USA SPring issue 2007)www.seedmagazine.com

Photographer and surfer Andy hughes has built up a substantial body of work recording the man -made detritus that dots the beaches where he surfs. The non-perishable-and mainly plastic- flotsam and jetsam has been photographed close up and personal in a way that transforms the object into ominous megaliths and that dominate theory few square inches of sand and shingle.
AG - The international journal of photographic art and Practice Spring 2007(number 47)

To coincide with Photo - London 2007 and the forcoming selected exhibition of Andy's work at Goldenshot, London - bids are being taken for the following:

Fully framed 20 x 20 Archival LightJet Print ( currently on show at the Tate St Ives )

This work is framed and has been exhibited at the Tate St Ives Art Now Cornwall exhibition 2007. Art Now Cornwall is the first exhibition at Tate St Ives to present a large sample of artists living and working in Cornwall. Selected during thirty-five studio visits made last autumn, it features recent and new work of twenty eight of the county’s most influential artists.

To place your bid send an e-mail to info@andyhughes.net and include your full name, address and bid price in UK pounds sterling ( min starting bit is £150.00 )

The winner will need to make payement direct to SAS, details will be sent to highest bidder.

Winner will also need to pay for delivery costs, it also could be collected direct from the artists studio.

Closing date for bids June 15 June 2007.

His book Dominant Wave Theory is available:
http://www.booth-clibborn.com
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dominant-Wave-Theory-Andrew-Hughes/dp/1861542844

 

Links:

Tate Gallery St Ives
Andyhughes.net
sas.org.uk
http://homepage.mac.com/andrewhughes2ce/html-emails/goldenshot_show_london.html