Lot 199: Ronnie Hughes (b.1965) FOREIGN BODY I signed; inscribed and dated [May/June 1990] oil and wax on canvas 91 by 91cm., 36 by 36in.

Ronnie Hughes (b.1965) FOREIGN BODY I signed; inscribed and dated [May/June 1990] oil and wax on canvas 91 by 91cm., 36 by 36in. Exhibited: BP Young European Artists, BP Oil Europe, Brussels, 1991 Born in Belfast, Ronnie Hughes obtained an MA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster. His talent as a young emerging painter was recognised in 1991 when he was awarded the internationally coveted year-long fellowship at PS1 studios in New York. Since then he has hadnumerous solo exhibitions particularly at the Rubicon Gallery, Dublin and a major survey of his career to date was held at the Sligo Model Arts Centre in 1998. His work is represented in the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and is discussed at length in Liam Kelly's Thinking Long: Contemporary Art in the North of Ireland, Gandon Editions, Kinsale, 1996.