About

Hosten is a multi-disciplinary visual artist working across media encompassing collage, drawing and printmaking.

Born in Nigeria and migrating to the UK as a child, in many ways Ugonna’s work seeks to explore the notion of duality (namely earthly and spiritual) as being central to the human experience. Themes of myth as a form of reality and the realm of the unconscious are prevalent in her work.

Hosten’s route into fine art was via a BA Honours in Criminology; which led into a career in the civil service. Those early explorations into the human mind on her degree program, remains part of a continuum. Her practice is an evolution of a sort, in piecing fragments together and investigating experiences; historically, personally and imagined.

In an attempt to convey the dimensions of the self and it’s connection to the collective unconscious, Ugonna considers her exploration as building on the rich legacy and tradition of storytelling and myth making.

Hosten is represented by Ed Cross.

EXHIBITION

chi: Altarpieces, Liturgy & Devotion, York Art Gallery, October 2023- April 2024

Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm, One Paved Court, London, June 2022

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, 2021

Ty Pawb Print International, Wales, 2021

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London,2021

Humanalia(n), One Paved Court, London, 2020

PUBLICATION

Printmaking Today Magazine, Issue 119, Volume 30, Autumn 2021

ENQUIRIES

Enquiries for commissions and sales of original works can be made via the contact form. Prints can be purchased here.