Elysia Hughes

Constellation graphic expanded

Exhibiting as part of the 2026 MA Show - 'Constellation'

About this work:


My art is intuitive.  

My art communicates something that words cannot.  

My art is the world that lives inside my head that spills out onto everything around me.  

Through illustration, soft sculpture, performance and socially engaged art, my practise aims to extract the hidden shapes and patterns that are held within each of us and communicate that which cannot not be said with words.  

Our individual brains cause us to sensorially engage with the world around us in unique ways and my practice aims to communicate how my neurodivergent brain experiences the world, through Surrealist imagery and abstraction placed amongst the ordinary.  

Elysia Hughes

Themes explored in this project

  • Neurodivergence
  • Neurodivergence
  • Relational aesthetics
  • Creative health

About the artist

I am a Herefordshire based fine artist interested in the disciplines of illustration, sculpture, performance and socially engaged art. Each of my disciplines informs one another to explore themes of the neurodivergent brain, creative health, and the positive impacts creating can have on individual and community wellbeing.  

Examples of work:

The 2026 Degree Show

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