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With a practice spanning over forty years, Hugh Ramage is a multidisciplinary artist whose work primarily uses the figure to explore divergent themes through painting, sculpture, print-making, mixed media, curation and installation. Each of his cycles of work attempts to examine humans in their complex capacity for beauty, fortitude and malevolence. Themes are explored through introspection and the investigation of contemporary, political and historical events.
As well as remaining committed to his studio practice, Hugh sees as an extension of his work a continuous social engagement through collaboration. To this end, he has established a number of non-profit, artist-run spaces since the early 1980s, which have provided countless opportunities for artists to produce and exhibit their work without constraint - the most notable being Duckrabbit (2015 - 2023) — a studio and exhibition space in Redfern which showed the work of over 250 artists - both emerging and established.
Hugh has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Willoughby Art Prize (2001 winner), Hazelhurst Art Prize (2005 People’s Choice Award), Sculpture By The Sea Sydney (2007 Director’s Prize), Sculpture By The Sea Cottesloe (2007 People’s Choice Award) and the Gallipoli Art Prize (2014 runner-up). His work is held in both private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Powerhouse), Artbank, the Dobell Foundation, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the University of Sydney and University of Technology Union Collections, Transfield Collection and Aarhus Arts Council, Denmark.
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