The liberty series is a work with individuals concentrating on forms of hand expression, mainly the closed fist gesture that in each person symbolises their own personal combat. The very first of the series was created in 1999 for french national magazine ‘nouvel observateur’ to symbolise the topic of International Women’s Day.

Photography of people and objects. Ra!ph has been a professional photographer for over 30 years in many fields of activity. His photographic works mainly reflect his activity in the world of fashion.

Having worked together with several artists of the infamous School of Nice mouvement, Ra!ph is a hereditory member of the movement. His long friendship and work with the sculptor and painter Sacha Sosno led him to return to sculpture. The main artists of the School of Nice movement had each a personal art principal and for him in turn to take an art principle to express his work. Ra!ph chose the principle of 'association' half image, half objects. The objects in question come from the environment of each person that is the subject of the work, or has a hidden meaning behind the person portayed.

Multiple graphic expressions around the same symbol, the man one represents the male sexual organ. Either cut out of metal sheets or sculpted in different materials in volume, Ra!ph experiments with a multitude of graphics, colours and materials. The use of this contravercial symbol is obviously a provocation, but can be as positive as it can be negative. It can be a symbol of homosexual life, a symbol of men's virility, a symbol of men's incapacity to think without here sex, their opression on women or just a hymn or celebration of the 'giver of life' or more even the 'giver of pleasure'.

This series is a product of Ra!ph's original profession as a graphic artist and his lifetime addiction to and profession in architecture. Graphic forms fill the lanscape of the canvas which in this case is sheets of metal. In a graphic world, we have a clean sheet to fill. Fill with words, images or shapes. When they are placed, we need to reach a state of equilibrium. My work in architecture is the same. The placement of a wall, a window, a door, everything must reach a state of harmony. It is an obsession for me to create an equilibrium in a space with just a few lines.

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A series of works produced with stars and personalities all over the world for "in the kichen with stars". An iniative produced by Ra!ph and the Baroness Angela Van Wright by order of SAS Prince Albert II of Monaco for his charity "Mission Enfance". new works are produced evey year for new editions of the book. The principle of the books is to take the favourite meal of each personnality. The principle of the works is to work around one of the elements of the favourite dish of each star. To apply an esthetic using macro photography combined with a graphic treatment. But the work becomes more complex... Each work beholds numbers. The numbers tell something about each personnality, Its an inigma, a game... it is for the public to search on the web to find the reason for these numbers and discover their hidden meaning.

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BACKGROUND - Ra!ph (Ralph Hutchings) has had a very eclectic career, touching many fields of the creative scene. At secondary school he excelled at both art and technical drawing. At 17, he starts his first job as graphic designer in a top London design agency in Covent Garden. The next year, he becomes Creative Director for a multi-national producer of consumer products. Two years later he opens his first company specialising in Corporate Image. Forever thirsty for creative experiences he passes the next few years as Creative Director for two Adevrtising agencies and opens another agency that recieved much success and decides to move to France. Over all he has been Creative Director in 14 design and advertising agencies, the last to date "Nice and You" a highly reputed design agency in Nice France. He has developed over the years much reclame for his style of design and his photography. He was the man behind the image of Monaco and the city of Nice and its region. His clients over the years has given him experience in all filds of design from industry to fashion.

ART - At the age of 7, Ra!ph has already a following for his artitic endeavours. He gains aclaim for his creation of cartoon characters and illustrates books produced by the headmaster of his primary school. For the school fetes, he has his own tent where he draws charcoal portraits for the school fund. His creer as a designer and creative director will dominate his time for most of his life. Year 2000, Ra!ph is alongside his creative engagements starts to produce books on French artists and culture. It is in his capacity as cultural journalist that he meets Sasha Sosno, one of the most prestigious artists of the School of Nice movement (Yves Klein, Cesar, . From that time on, Ra!ph and Sacha become inseperable and work on many projects together. Sasha Sosno pushes him to return to art. Over the next 16 years Ra!ph produced many works from his passion for photography to sculpture. He has also collaborated with many other artists of the School of Nice. (see works-collaborations).

Ra!ph's first major exhibition was a hommage to his friend and sparing partner Sasha Sosno after his death in 2014, at the National Library of Nice under the imposing and aclaimed MAMAC (Museum of Contemporary and modern art of Nice).
Note: Sasha Sosno himself was a cultural journalist when he first met Arman (one of the most famous and major actors of the School of Nice movement), He himself pushed Sosno to produce his own form of art. As did Sosno for Ra!ph, making him in turn a hereditory member of the School of Nice.

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