Hugh Watt

• Visual artist


Hugh Watt’s artistic output is driven by a fascination, concerned with the fabric and context of specific sites, especially remote sites, on the edge places, exploring concepts where artworks are spun directly from the fabric of the sites where they are eventually shown.

Watt’s work brings into question dualities played out between the visible signifier (nature) and the invisible signified (historical/political context). In this way, nature begins to lose its impact as simple physical encounter and becomes metaphoric – a means through which to open up an abstract set of exchanges and interpretations, foregrounding imagined rather than literally described space.