About

Kristina Hughes is a Southwest-based UK 3D mixed-media artist, who studied a BA in Creative Arts Practice at Bath Spa University and has participated in collaborative exhibitions, such as Fringe Arts Bath in 2023 and 2025, and the Holburne Museum's 2025 March Up Late: Creative Curiosity.

Her practice is typically ceramics – porcelain specifically – with an emphasis on flowing tender forms and the precariousness of decay. She intends to play with the dichotomy between the desire to touch something so delicate, and the fear of breaking it.

Despite this preference, she loves diving down creative rabbit holes that explore how the showmanship of immersive lighting, optical illusions and experimental filming can ‘activate’ pieces; can elevate them from perceived objects to senses or experiences – the ephemeral made immortal via memory.

In pursuit of these goals, she has worked as a Scenic Fabrication Assistant (specialising in metalwork) with Little Lost Robot Studio at Radstock’s Old Printworks, including welding the large-scale sculptures in partnerships with CERN, Decoherence, destined for the Colours of Ostrava Festival in Czechia. From there, she was commissioned by Super Culture Western for the Glow With It exhibit on Bournemouth Pier for Arts By The Sea 2025. Additionally, she has collaborated on lantern puppets for Bath Carnival’s Festival of Lights.

More broadly, she is inspired by fantastical themes and imagery drawn from television, films and video games from her childhood. Her work tries to convey her nostalgic for these influences in a heightened way that the audience might revel in them too.