Tracy Hill
Hill’s trans-disciplinary practice investigates the dynamic relationship between our human beliefs and customs, traditions of the hand created image and developing digital technologies. Walking and navigation connect with a modern obsession for locating, ordering, and fragmenting our experiences of landscape and Place.
Combinations of print, installation and drawing invite new encounters with everyday landscapes. Disrupted and reimagined Hill’s images require a visual and cognitive attention intrinsic to walking occupying the place where our digital and physical worlds overlap.
Recent projects Porosity and Carbon Synthesis reveal the imperceptible energies, which underscore our human experience of and connection to Place. Both projects connect the permeability of the land with the porousness of the human body, exploring the possibilities of linking art and science to transform perceptions of landscapes, revealing fragile relationships between global living systems, visualising the (in)visible.
Recent exhibitions include:
A Fine Toothed Comb, HOME, Manchester (2023/24) Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich Arsenal, London (2023) Still and still moving, OD Arts Festival, Somerset (2023) Our World, Our Crisis, The Point. Doncaster (2023), Paths of Resistance (2022) – Arnofini Bristol, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2020) - Woolwich Arsenal London, 21st International Biennial (2022) - Ardennes Museum of Charleville-Mézières, France, Ephemeral Bodies (2022) - AirSpace Gallery, Stoke, Triennale de Gravure de Liege (2021), The International Print Triennial - Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland (2021), Talking Place (2019) - Mandurah, Perth, The Second Xuyuan International Print Biennial (2019) China, Common Ground: Pacific (2019) - University Gallery Newcastle, Australia, Encounters (2018) - Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander, Spain, The International Print Triennial 2018 – Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland; The Guanlan International Print Biennial in Shenzhen, China (2017)
Printed works in collections include: Tate Library and Archive, AWARE Archive of Women Artists Research and Exhibitions, Centre for Print Research, UWE, University Gallery Newcastle NSW, International Print Triennial Collection Kraków, Printmaking Museum in Shenzhen, China and Painting and Sculpture Museum. Istanbul.
Awards: Arts Council England, DYCP (2021), European Printmaking Award, International Print Triennial Krakow (2018), Awagami Paper Award (2017), shortlisted artist for the Triennale de Gravure (2021), Printmaking Today Prize, RBSA Birmingham (2016).
