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London artist self-exiled to small greek island rowenahughes.co.uk @rowena_hughes wishing this place could be a real alternative for instagram

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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
thegoldenhour.substack.com/p/ai-doom-sp... Why is it that we’re having a collective freakout about one problem amidst a collective shrug about other, far more clear and present dangers?
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AI Doom Spiral? Three Steps To Climb Out
Understand the psychology, find your agency, join up
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Studio visit … a praying mantis on my photograph
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Happy to contribute to the Drawing Biennial 2026 at the Drawing Room London The Biennial returns with more than 300 original drawings by leading international artists. The exhibition culminates in an online auction fundraiser, bidding starting at £400. A Ribbon Shaped Beam colour pencil 35 × 21 cm
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Really looking forward to taking part in this tomorrow ✨
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This was amazing Athanasios Argianas at Mackintosh Lane 💙💚🦉
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
this was amazing at the weekend
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
archworkshop.org/printed-mate...
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Happy to show some new work at Arch opening this evening ARCH Editions Opening: March 18th, 19:00 – 21:00 until 9th April 5 Gkoura street, Plaka, Athens www.archathens.org
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Maybe isolating one moment of thought is like looking at only one wave in the ocean ..? maybe Proust had more insight than the psychologists ..? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Inside voice: what can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousness?
The long read: Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
“In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.” ― Roberto Bolaño, Distant Star
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Sir Roger Penrose
Podcast Episode · Desert Island Discs: Archive 2000-2005 · 23/07/2000 · 37m
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Oranges in the storm, Athens
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The mornings in that city were strange, as citizens, barely awake, reached for their radios to hear what the Mad King had done overnight, compelled to start their day equally cursed by knowledge and unable to act on it.
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The work of artist Gelare Khoshgozaran seems ever relevant from Cell project space’s mail art series during covid ‘Queer Correspondence’
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Joe Devlin @joedevlin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
A remixed Bridget Riley collage using pages from Studio International (July-August 1971)
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“If problem-solving is linear, autopoiesis involves a circular causality that loops through the brain, body, and world. “ “Aphorisms, algorithms …They are small bones fossilized from the messy body of lived experience.” nautil.us/what-is-inte...
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What Is Intelligence?
What Is Intelligence? At a church in Italy, we sought to shed an old definition for one that could save us.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
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Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become
1 They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Sunlight Mirrored in your Iris (Komorebi series) Photograph of painting printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte, 68x51cm, 2025, Edition of five
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Xmas tree in a living room in Levittown, Long Island Diane Arbus, 1962
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Small things with big ideas at White Conduit projects London curated by Paul Carey Kent Artists’ talks Saturday at 3pm
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Saturday at 3 artists’ talks at White Conduit projects Islington   exhibiting a photogram & an early painting, distant in time, method & materials both depict pentagons, a recurring fascination; the weird beauty of fivefold symmetry, nature’s strange geometries & everything connecting across time
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Heart urchin
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
showing in Small Things with Big Ideas in London til 20th Jan @whiteconduitprojects_london Time Swims in Circles is a unique photogram made on residency on spetses. The forms are oval heart urchins and the objects known as ‘Aristotle’s lanterns’ sea urchins intricate pentagonal jaw structures
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
“Perhaps this is why I was sure I was in a spiral: despite the persistence of the image of history repeating on a loop, time doesn’t move that way. It doesn’t merely circle, it spirals, returning to places that feel familiar but are fundamentally different, having accumulated all the weight
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
5/ Surrealism Against Fascism Naomi Klein 26.11.2025Essay A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide? www.equator.org/articles/sur...
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Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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BOOKMORPHS: Artists' Books from Greece & the UK | The Hellenic Centre, London | 14/10/25 – 28/11/25 - Centre for Print Research
Sarah’s artist’s book Read With Me is in the upcoming exhibition BOOKMORPHS which brings together a diverse selection of artists’...
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Undue Flexure ~ Reference books, elastic bands, version one 2013 ~ exhibited in Return to Reason at Imperial College London ~
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Elasticity, Fracture & Flow original pages from artists’ book 2021
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Frieze was fun yesterday some favourites … Sanya Kantarovsky at modern art Mark Corfield-Moore at kate Mcgarry Joanna piotrowska at philida reid Paloma Proudfoot at the approach
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
BOOKMORPHS: Artists' Books from Greece & the UK 14 October - 28 November @joedevlin.bsky.social @sarahbodman.bsky.social @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social The Hellenic Centre 16 - 18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London W1U 5AS Curated by Fiona Mouzakitis & Despina Stavrou,Christina Mitrentse
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Opening this evening at the Hellenic Centre in London 🧡 BOOKMORPHS: Artists' Books from Greece & the UK 14 October - 28 November 2025 The Hellenic Centre 16 - 18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London W1U 5AS Curated by Fiona Mouzakitis & Despina Stavrouand Christina Mitrentse
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Looking forward to the Bookmorphs exhibition at the Hellenic centre in london Including the work of @imogenreid.bsky.social @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social amongst many others
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Looking forward to the "Bookmorphs" exhibition at The Hellenic Centre with work by @joedevlin.bsky.social @sarahbodman.bsky.social @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social SJ Fowler, Stephen Emmerson, David Blackmore, Michael Hampton, et al. PV, Tuesday 14th October. helleniccentre.org/event/bookmo...
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BOOKMORPHS: Artists' Books from Greece & the UK – Hellenic Centre
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Rewiring America @rewiringamerica.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
September 21 is Sun Day, a day of action to celebrate the power of clean energy. By installing solar, home batteries, heat pumps, and other appliances running on electricity, we can create a brighter future ☀️ Learn more and find an event near you: www.sunday.earth @sundayofaction.bsky.social
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
in awe of Athenian childhood
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
moongazing
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 10/08/2025
‘Entrances to the underworld were usually located on the coast, while the highest and lowest of men were buried there, from local heroes to dead fisherfolk.’ @josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Josephine Quinn · Born on the Beach: Ancient Coastlines
Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the...
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
a wild bee with pollen laden legs & praying mantis exoskeletons & cicada wings would,make beautiful miniature photograms
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
July moonrise ripe peach
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy. It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.' www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The last sawfish In the collections of the old boarding school on the small greek island I found four mysterious long bone-like objects with what appeared to be shark’s teeth protruding regularly from each side like a weird giant cacti.
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Time Swims in Circles my exhibition in Spetses Greece after an intense & brilliant 6 week residency Anargyrios & Korgialenios School Spetses Artists Rowena Hughes Konstantza Kapsali Natalia Manta Ioanna Paraskevopoulou Curator Eva Vaslamatzi Foteini Salvaridi
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Time Swims in Circles my exhibition in Spetses is open til the 20th July after an intense & brilliant 6 week residency Anargyrios & Korgialenios School Spetses Artists Rowena Hughes Konstantza Kapsali Natalia Manta Ioanna Paraskevopoulou Curator Eva Vaslamatzi Coordinator Foteini Salvaridi
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Pomegranates in progress
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Selene
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Bioluminescent jellyfish and barking dog at the port yesterday
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
New bones Lucille Clifton
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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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