Eoin Mc Hugh

Eoin Mc Hugh was born in 1977 in Dublin. He graduated with First Class Honours BA in Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art & Design, Dublin in 2005. Mc Hugh currently lives and works in Berlin.

Eoin Mc Hugh's Art Style

Eoin Mc Hugh's work spans sculpture, painting, and drawing, characterized by a fascination with the psychology of images, psychoanalytic theory, and the histories of art, literature, language, and mysticism. His works are hyper-real and often hyper-surreal. His art operates in the space between language and unconscious thought, translating complex psychological processes and worldly phenomena into physical forms.

Mc Hugh's paintings are known for their phantasmagoric visions, executed with the precision reminiscent of 17th-century Dutch Old Masters. His works often feature antiquarian objects like display cases, dioramas, models, rugs, taxidermied creatures, and curiosities, which are fragmented, reordered, or made uncanny. This blend of delicate and macabre elements explores various metaphysical states of change, such as darkness and lightness, solidity and liquidity, and softness and focus.

Central to Mc Hugh's practice is a sense of mutability, invention, and experimentation, delving into the psyche's dark recesses and the different forms of knowledge that illuminate it. His art continuously probes the boundaries of reality and imagination, making visible the unseen workings of the mind.