NATASHA LARA HUGHES &
JAMES DEAN DIAMOND
Apartment HD is a collaboration between the artists Natasha Lara Hughes and James Dean Diamond. Together they have produced the body of work titled 200 Years 1000 Stories. This on going body of work is a photographic stream of consciousness. Their work reveals the unidentifiable, the sublime, or the almost known. 200 Years 1000 Stories is a quest for spiritual and poetic wonderment.
NATASHA LARA HUGHES
The spaces I am interested in are minimal and convey an energetic stillness, charged with serene activity; they are places within, yet away from the incessant tumult of the city. This work hopes to embody refuge and respite from the perpetual frenetic human experience, especially as one experiences the city. Through minimal elements within the picture plain, I attempt to charge the 2 dimensional plain with a hum of vibrations – a universal song we all know, which lingers within the walls of the interiors, or in the external atmosphere implicitly and intangibly.
JAMES DEAN DIAMOND
200 Years One Thousand Stories, captures the fleeting pulse of the city through a photographic stream of consciousness. It deconstructs urban landscapes into abstract, painterly narratives, unveiling the hidden, metaphorical currents that flow beneath the surface of the metropolis.
The work reveals the spiritual electric storm coursing through the veins of the city, creating a dynamic yet, poetic and introspective state of mind. Transcending conventional street-style documentation, his photography reimagines the city as a living, breathing force—a realm of infinite untold narratives
Bio
James studied photography at the London College of Printing and a masters degree in fine art at Brighton University. Natasha studied at Chelsea College of Art where she went on to receive a scholarship to study’s her masters degree at the Royal College of art. Together they have produced the body of work titled 200 Years 1000 Stories. This on going body of work is a photographic stream of consciousness.
For the last 35 years they have worked in fashion advertising and the visual arts Showing extensively around Europe and America. They have been featured in many publications and blogs. To support their practice Hughes and Diamond have taught for over 17 years in schools, universities and private tuition.
Diamond creates installations using photography and sound. For 3 years Diamond was the artist in residence for Sussex University and this work was nominated for the 2023 Prix Pictet award. Well known for experimental photography he was sponsored by Polaroid for devising a new technique with there instant film products.
Hughes works with several mediums. Literature, painting, drawing and photography Her career has taken her all over the world where she has worked and lived in Paris Rome New York and Tokyo. More recently residing in Spain. Her visual art journey started when she was selected by Blain Southern when she graduated form the RCA. Hughes’s innovative geometric large scalepaintings were exhibited around Europe including the The Beaux Arts in Paris. Recent years Hughes has focussed on her teaching career but this year has completed new bodies of work in drawing literature painting and photography.