Sian Hughes is a textile artist producing work for exhibition, commission and installation. She often incorporates lighting in her work and rigid structures, such as perspex and steel, to create three-dimensional pieces for public spaces. Sian has her studio in the Bridewell in Liverpool and has had a variety of solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, including work in the Liverpool Biennial Exhibition in 1999. Selected site specific projects include a work commissioned by the Womens Hospital, Liverpool, a textile triptych, back-lit, for the main corridor, and six framed works commissioned by IBM (UK) Ltd Cambridge, featuring key Cambridge buildings, the Fens and Ely Cathedral. She has had many artist-in-residency placements in schools in the North-West - primary and secondary and in special needs. In 1998 Sian took part in the Unilever Project working in three primary schools in Wirral. As part of the Art and Architecture Residency 2000 Sian worked in St Marys Primary School, Eastham and Great Meols Primary School, Wirral. At Great Meols the project was for pupils to design and make a textile installation to cover the back wall of the assembly hall. Pupils produced 60 laminates. Designs were taken from the school grounds and from shoreline details on the sea front. St Marys Primary School pupils produced laminated batiks to hang in the tall windows throughout the school. The designs were taken from the adjoining churchyard: ivy, celtic cross, gravestone details and lynch-gate carvings. Summative comment by St Marys on the value of the batik project: "Excellent opportunity for whole school to observe an expert working. Her enthusiasm has encouraged staff and pupils alike to continue trying these techniques. Good use of local resource (graveyard) to produce ideas and make children think about their art before creating a piece of work".

Sian chats with a pupil. Sian assisting the children

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