Arch Hades first rose to international acclaim as a best-selling poet, known for her meditative poignancy and sustained explorations of the human condition. Over the years, her practice has expanded into visual art with her prose underpinning a multidisciplinary body of work that merges the lyricism of her verse with richly imagined visual forms. Working at the intersection of visual art and spoken word, Hades’ practice draws on the Romantic lyricism of her poetry and engages deeply with loss, existentialism and Surrealism. Her works span painting, sculpture and performance and she is the author of six volumes of poetry.
In 2021, Hades’ fourth volume, Arcadia, was sold at Christie’s New York in the form of an abstract animation, soundtracked by RAC and illustrated by Andrés Reisinger. Achieving a hammer price of $525,000, it became the most expensive poem ever sold. Hades made her museum debut in Florence in 2022 with this work, pioneering a practice in which poetry, sound and image converge to create meditative experiences that invite viewers to reflect on a shared 21st-century existential condition and the entanglement of daily life with social media.
Solo exhibitions include: Return | Ritorno, Scoletta Battioro e Tiraoro di Venezia, Venice, 2026; We Are All Just Passing Through, 8 Berkeley Square, London, 2025; and Arch Hades, Ladbroke Hall, London, 2024. In 2025, Hades’ featured among twenty-nine top international artists in Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale in London, raising funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity. With Licht Feld Gallery, Hades regularly exhibits at international art fairs in Europe, North and South America.
Recent performances include the inauguration of the Italian Pavilion for the opening of the Venice Architecture Biennale and re:VERSE, a poetry symposium at Ladbroke Hall, both in 2025.
Arch Hades first rose to international acclaim as a best-selling poet, known for her meditative poignancy and sustained explorations of the human condition. Over the years, her practice has expanded into visual art with her prose underpinning a multidisciplinary body of work that merges the lyricism of her verse with richly imagined visual forms. Working at the intersection of visual art and spoken word, Hades’ practice draws on the Romantic lyricism of her poetry and engages deeply with loss, existentialism and Surrealism. Her works span painting, sculpture and performance and she is the author of six volumes of poetry.
In 2021, Hades’ fourth volume, Arcadia, was sold at Christie’s New York in the form of an abstract animation, soundtracked by RAC and illustrated by Andrés Reisinger. Achieving a hammer price of $525,000, it became the most expensive poem ever sold. Hades made her museum debut in Florence in 2022 with this work, pioneering a practice in which poetry, sound and image converge to create meditative experiences that invite viewers to reflect on a shared 21st-century existential condition and the entanglement of daily life with social media.
Solo exhibitions include: Return | Ritorno, Scoletta Battioro e Tiraoro di Venezia, Venice, 2026; We Are All Just Passing Through, 8 Berkeley Square, London, 2025; and Arch Hades, Ladbroke Hall, London, 2024. In 2025, Hades’ featured among twenty-nine top international artists in Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale in London, raising funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity. With Licht Feld Gallery, Hades regularly exhibits at international art fairs in Europe, North and South America.
Recent performances include the inauguration of the Italian Pavilion for the opening of the Venice Architecture Biennale and re:VERSE, a poetry symposium at Ladbroke Hall, both in 2025.