John Hughes (b. London, UK) is a poet. He tends to an ephermal / pirate garden on disused platform 5 at Acton Town Station where he works. He holds a PhD in Contemporary Art Research from Kingston School of Art, Kingston University (2022). His thesis An Investigation Into The Capture And Public Display Of The Acton Town Otter presents the political and expansive possibilities for embedded sonic narrative writing as contemporary art practice.
His work has been heard in Supernormal (BIAW, 2025), Resonance FM (Hello Goodbye Show, 2026, 2025 and 2023), Radiophrenia (2026, 2022, 2020 and 2019), The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery (2012), Braziers International Artist Workshop (2007) and New Contemporaries (2006)
You Are My Burger King,
New Contemporaries 2006, Club Row, London
Selected Group Shows include Vertigo Rising with Liz Murray, Five Years (2015), Hoot, Studio 1.1 (2007) and Things That Go Bump In The Night, Cafe Gallery Projects (2008).
He is a member of experimental sound groups We Are Publication and GLAP collective. With Rachel Cattle he set up JOAN, a publishing project for contemporary writing.
Dance Across the Carpeted Floor, Please, JOAN, 2024
Contributors: Holly Antrum, Rachel Cattle, JJ Chan, Mireille Fauchon,
Alice Gale- Feeny, Keira Greene, John Hughes, Mónica Rivas Velásquez.
Terence Dwyer’s Composing With Tape Recorders, JOAN, 2023
Originally published by Oxford University Press, re-published by JOAN, includes new texts by Sarah Angliss, Irene Revell, John Hughes and a visual afterword by Mandy Ure.
THE VERY LOUD READING GROUP is a workshop for artists and poets interested in sound and text. Using a selection of text-based exercises each session explores experimental approaches to DIY sound production (music, song and sound) through different combinations of poetics, body and voice.
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ACTS, Stanley Picker Public Lectures & Events, video, 2023. Inspired by Terence Dwyer’s iconic 1971 tutorial Composing with Tape Recorders (originally published by Oxford University Press), re-published by JOAN in 2023.
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Have A Nice Day,
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Are You A Musselmann Sir?,
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THE CIRCUS BALLADS with Sissy Christopoulou, Vinyl and Posters (with Steve Richards), 2026
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︎ hughes.johnpatrick@gmail.com
ACTS, Stanley Picker Public Lectures & Events, video, 2023. Inspired by Terence Dwyer’s iconic 1971 tutorial Composing with Tape Recorders (originally published by Oxford University Press), re-published by JOAN in 2023.
Have A Nice Day,
Blackpool Museum of Contemporary Art,
Houndshill Shopping Centre, Blackpool, 2007
Are You A Musselmann Sir?,
The London Open 2012, Whitechapel Gallery, London
THE CIRCUS BALLADS with Sissy Christopoulou, Vinyl and Posters (with Steve Richards), 2026
