“The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace” Gaston Bachelard,  The Poetics of Space

Remembrance of day-dreams is an autobiographical exploration of self and identity through photography and text by Tim Stubbs Hughes.

Taking his childhood bedroom as a starting point, Tim explores this space, and enquires how the memories of the past can illuminate the connections between the identity you have today and the remembrances of a past self.

From the age of 6 to 18, Tim lived in Fleet, Hampshire. Significant pieces from this room have been found or recreated as part of this installation and juxtaposed against recent self-portraits, text and how others see him today. Bringing together elements of photographic material past and present, archival material from childhood and the use of snapshots of sound, music and spoken word, Remembrance of day-dreams takes the viewer on a journey and places them within this world to reminisce and remember their own childhood.

Curated by Tim Stubbs Hughes. Lighting by Jonathan Samuels.

The Artist

Tim Stubbs Hughes is an artist, photographer and theatre-maker. Remembrance of day-dreams is the culmination of the 2-year M.A. in Photography at Falmouth University. Tim has previously exhibited at Conway Hall, London as part of the completion of photography courses run by the renowned portrait photographer Grace Gelder: Stages of Self in 2017, London Presence in 2018 and Reflection in 2019, as well as at The Asylum, Peckham with One Night Only in 2017.

His previous acclaimed work as a theatre director includes: bodies unfinished by Lewis Hetherington, also at the Jack Studio Theatre (5 Off-West End nominations), a new literal translation of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard by Patrick Miles at the White Bear Theatre, and the world premiere of Philip de Gouveia’s The Six Wives of Timothy Leary at the Etcetera Theatre and Riverside Studios, London and at the Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. From 1997-2009, Tim was co-artistic director of the new writing theatre company Weaver-Hughes Ensemble. www.timstubbshughes.co.uk