Hugo Glover's work exists at the intersection of making and knowing, where the hand thinks and materials speak. Based at Northumbria University, his practice-based research explores how embodied, durational engagement with materials—particularly wood—generates forms of knowledge that resist articulation through language alone.

Glover moved from industrial design into animation, seeking creative and technical challenge without the material waste of designing objects for mass consumption. While teaching animation at Northumbria for 14 years, he undertook a PhD at the RCA (2014), where his practice returned to materiality through machine-making—including a flame-powered zoetrope—though now with a different relationship to production and making. His recent move into fine art education has extended this trajectory, developing pedagogical approaches that prioritize embodied attention and durational engagement over technical mastery—an approach grounded in slowness, resistance, and the generative potential of not-knowing.

His current research examines how creative blocks might be understood through trauma theory and the autonomic nervous system, reframing resistance as embodied intelligence rather than cognitive failure