‘Ted Hughes: Art in the Making‘ is a visual project created by The University of Hull postgraduate research student, Anna Stevenson.
Ted Hughes observed all forms of art to be a natural healing process, often describing the creative practice as an ‘individuation.’ The poet related this to the idea that our inner and outer consciousness’ are interchanged through human experience. When producing a piece of art: the artist or poet would attain a sense of wholeness, adding a meaning and purpose to life through creative means. Hughes argued this to be a spiritual and shamanic process. Observing art, and the process of creating art, can encourage an individual to encounter the true nature of human experience through the inner and outer consciousness’ acting as a whole.
This project is a visual series, intending to reflect this relationship between poetry, art and human experience. Depicted through the medium of Biro, the project will collate individual pieces of artwork inspired by the poetry of Ted Hughes. At present, there is no fixed or intended end result of this project, but a future exhibition is in the process of organisation.
The point of the process of this project, is to emulate this idea of Hughes’: that art can, in some form of consciousness, make the viewer ‘feel something.’ These initial perceptions of art can in turn influence the inner experience of the individual through further discussion around the process in which the piece of art is created and completed.
These pieces will be based around my own perception of Hughes’ art, in turn creating my own art. Through this website and respective social media, it is hoped that your viewer’s perception of this project will encourage a similar experience, as the process behind this project is documented in real time. The project challenges and contributes to this idea of healing and renewal through art – can art and its process inspire future art, and so on.
Ted Hughes: Art in the Making 
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