Lizzie Hughes was born and grew up in Anglesey, Wales. In 1993 she moved to London and in 2002 graduated from The Slade School of Fine Art with an MFA, having completed her BA at the same college in 1997. In 2010 she completed a five year residency at the ACME Fire Station Building in London. In 2012 she will be curating The Present is a Point Just Passed at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery. Aside from her studio practice, she has undertaken residencies and commissions which have taken her work into a broad public realm. Her work is not bound by any media and has included installation, video, sound works and performance.