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Harriet Hill

London
Based in London, Harriet creates sculpture, site-specific installation and live, public art which humorously challenges the spaces we inhabit and our familiarity with the physical world that around us
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Harriet Hill is based in South East London. She creates sculpture, site-specific installation and interactive live art that responds to the visceral qualities of materials, physical space and social frameworks. These may be structural, spatial, experiential or tactile. She is interested in the way these elements affect us and how they can be manipulated.

Working in a playful and dynamic way she uses evocative materials such as elastic, cardboard, felt and tape. She creates sculpture or contextual drawings that stimulate narrative through using the installation space as part of the work. By revealing or highlighting what is already there a viewer’s perception of an object and it's environment can be shifted or changed.

This methodology also applies with a more recent move into live art and the emergence of her letter costumes. Working collaboratively with performers and videographers, Harriet groups these wearable sculptures into words to make singular, resonant statements. Taking them on walkabout around streets and public spaces the letters talk to people as they go about the word and its varied meanings. These moving artworks investigate similar ideas to her other work but from a performative rather than static angle: "My installations play with the dynamic of a space, becoming alive when the viewer moves through them. Conversely, the peopled words are alive themselves and move amongst the viewers and through the space." 

Harriet has an MFA Textiles from Goldsmiths 2007 and supports her practise working in art fabrication.

 

HOME-ing: a live art odyssey on foot from London to Wales

By  Harriet Hill

HOME-ing: a live art odyssey on foot from London to Wales

By  Harriet Hill

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