Harriet Hughes lives and works in Gloucester’s rural creative scene. Using a diverse range of mediums, she explores production and labour using dolls as her primary image. By using the pasts advertisement narratives, beauty standards and gender roles, now seen as absurd, she satirises how the perception of self is continually exploited in order to produce profit.

Harriet is an experienced facilitator having managed youth programmes since 2023 and running a diverse range of workshops, talks and social events for young people and adults at various venues.

Harriet studied at Hereford College of Arts. In 2021 her work was shown as part of the Tate Collective’s digital display at the opening of Tate Britain’s ‘Life Between Islands’ show. Hughes is an artist in residence at The Wilson Museum and Gallery 2025-2026 and has been part of many projects including Hundred Heroines: Women in Photography Today, GAS projects, and SITE festival.

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Alternative Image Text: A picture of two dolls

Image Credit: Harriet Hughes