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​Natasha Lara Hughes

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Natasha Lara Hughes is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the relationship between

perception, material and the immaterial world, through the latent structures that shape human

experience. Working across painting, photography, mixed media and performance, Hughes investigates

how presence is registered through traces, systems, movement and transformation.

Her work examines the spaces between visibility and invisibility: the underlying geometries that organise

perception, the residues left by human activity, and the ways in which light, colour and material alter our

understanding of space and time.

Natasha’s practice emerges from a deeply personal trajectory shaped by lived experience. Her work

operates as a form of visual testimony—an articulation of survival from extremely traumatic and

dangerous events. Through image making, she seeks spaces of stillness and transcendence, evoking

the quiet persistence of faith that sustained her through profound trauma.

 

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James Dean Diamond

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Diamond's work allows memory, emotion and altered vision to inhabit an unseen place where human perception is never fixed; it is continually evolving, never settling into a singular way of seeing.

The metropolis unfolds less as a place to be observed than as a living field of presence—a state of mind rather than a state of place. Photography becomes a language of perception, tracing the fragile correspondence between the interior mind and the exterior world, where the visible and invisible continually converge into a suspended field of psychological and emotional resonance.

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Through fragmentation and reassembly, Diamond dissolves the boundaries between photography, painting and music, constructing images that are at once estranged and deeply intimate. Rather than describing the visible world, the work suggests the hidden energies that lie beneath the surface of everyday experience, revealing a spiritual space where the unseen city unfolds as a realm of infinite, untold narratives.

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Diamond always conceived each body of work as a single visual score. Every photograph must first possess the strength to exist as an autonomous work; there are no supporting images and no visual fillers. Yet, when brought together, the works begin to resonate beyond themselves, much like the movements of a musical composition. The installation unfolds through an emotive rhythm, rather than a linear narrative, allowing meaning to emerge slowly through the relationships between images. Adhering to the Aristotelian notion that the whole exceeds the sum of its parts, the installation generates a further level of meaning while each photograph retains its own autonomy.

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Diamond's distinctive visual language emerges from a lifelong neurological and ocular condition that alters his visual perception. Rather than regarding this as a limitation, he has embraced it as a creative methodology—a means of encountering the world through distortion, intensity and heightened sensory awareness. His photographs become less documents of place than traces of human perception itself, continually reconstituted through memory, emotion and lived experience.

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James Dean Diamond

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​James Dean Diamond is a British artist working across photography, sound, and installation. He studied Photography at the London College of Printing and completed an MA in Fine Art at the University of Brighton.

Diamond’s interdisciplinary practice explores the relationship between perception, memory, and the transformation of the photographic image. His work has been exhibited internationally across Europe and the United States. Diamond’s work is held in numerous private collections internationally, including collections of prominent figures within the contemporary art and museum communities. His photographs are represented in the collections of collectors associated with major cultural institutions, including members of the Tate community. Diamond has been featured in a range of critical international publications and photographic platforms.

From 2019 to 2022, Diamond was Artist in Residence at the University of Sussex, where he developed a body of experimental photographic and sound-based installations investigating the relationship between image, space, and perception. This work was nominated for the 2023 Prix Pictet Award.

Diamond has also been recognised for his technical innovation within photographic practice, receiving sponsorship from Polaroid for his pioneering use of Polapan and Polagraph instant films, through which he explored new approaches to colour, materiality, and image formation.

His practice continues to investigate the boundaries between photography, abstraction, and embodied experience, positioning the photographic image as both a record of the visible world and a means of exploring what lies beyond conventional perception.

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Selected Career Highlights

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2025

• Featured in Shifter Media, USA.

• Selected for international exhibitions through Singular Art, Paris, including collaborations with:

  • Galerie Valymeric, Lyon

  • Quai de la Photo, Paris

  • Paraventi Giapponesi Gallery, Milan

  • Sophia Stef Gallery

  • Snap Collective

2024

• Represented by Singular Art, Paris.

• Co-founded Apartment HD with Natasha Lara Hughes (Royal College of Art).

2023

• Nominated for the International Prix Pictet Award.

2019–2022

• Artist in Residence, University of Sussex.

• Developed experimental photographic and sound-based installations.

2022

• Arts Mentoring Programme, in association with Gagosian Gallery and IntoUniversity.

• Invited speaker, Ogilvy & Mather Christmas Lecture.

2021

• Interviewed by Vanity Fair.

• Works acquired by collectors associated with the Tate Modern acquisitions community.

2018

• Featured in Elephant Magazine and Lens Scratch.

1995–1998

• Sponsored by Polaroid for photographic innovation using Polapan and Polagraph films.

• Cover feature, Design Week.

• Student of the Year, The Journal of British Photography.

1994

• Winner, Kodak Student Award.

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Selected Publications & Commissions

Editorial
Financial Times – How To Spend It | Vogue Greece | Harper’s & Queen | The Telegraph | The Guardian | Madame Figaro

Commercial Clients
Levi’s | MTV | BMW | Volvo | Hyundai | Hewlett Packard | Donna Karan | Selfridges | Swatch | Credit Suisse | The Royal Exchange | Converse

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Education

MA Fine Art — University of Brighton
BA Photography — London College of Printing
University of the Arts London — Student of the Year
HND Electronic Engineering — Portsmouth University
HND Accountancy & Finance — Southampton University
City & Guilds Certificate — Mechanical Engineering

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Natasha Lara Hughes

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Natasha Lara Hughes studied at Chelsea College of Art and was awarded a scholarship to pursue her Master’s at the Royal College of Art. Her multidisciplinary practice has been shaped by living in Paris, Rome, New York, Tokyo, and most recently the Andalusian region of southern Spain. Selected by Blains Fine Art (later Blain|Southern), she has exhibited at L'École des Beaux-Arts Paris, Hoax Gallery London, and Peeps Gallery. Her current work spans drawing, painting, sculpture, writing, and photography.

Apartment HD works are represented online by Singulart, and they have recently contributed to group exhibitions with associated galleries across Europe and America, further expanding the dialogue around their evolving visual language.

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2025

- Article in Shifter Media - USA

- Online group shows in association with Singular Art with the following galleries:

- Paraventi Giapponesi – Milan

- Galerie Agnes Nord – Paris

- Quorum Gallery – Nantes

- Test Gallery – Milan

- Paragone-Concept – Lyon

- Sophia Stef Gallery- New Jersey

- Charmoli Ciarmoli – New York

 

 

2024 - Attained representation with Singular Art Paris

2023 - to 2000 Lecturing and teaching art in various educational institutes

2005 - 39 Mitchell Street -  London - Deck of Cards - Group Show

2004 - 39 Mitchell Street - London - Pub Crawl - Group Show

2004 - Lecturer Education Department at the National Gallery London

2000 - Internship in the Impressionist Department at Sotheby's London under Oliver Barker

2000 - Hoax Gallery - London - Crush - Group Show

1999 - Blain London –  Dealers Choice

1999 - L'Ecole de Beaux Arts – Paris – Group Show Royal College of Art

1999 - Peeps Gallery - London - Charlie's Friends - Group Show

1999 - Hoax Gallery - London - Stewed, Screwed and Tatooed

1996 - Braas - Frankfurt - Group Show

1987 to 1994 - Worked in Fashion and advertising industry in London, Paris, Milan, New York and Tokyo with               Storm Model Management

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Education

2005 - PGCE Roehampton University - Specialising in Art

1998 - Ma Fine Art  Painting - Royal College of Art London

1995 - Ba Fine Art Painting - Chelsea College of Art London

1994 - Art Foundation Course - Woolwich College London ​​