Tracy Hill's walking, thinking and making spaces.
Axis Professional Member and recipient of the Axis Bursary in 2025, Tracy Hill shares an inside look into where she makes work and what is inspiring her right now.
Surgere, 2023, Tracy Hill, photograph by Chris Payne
In this studio tour, Tracy Hill invites us into the space where she makes her work, sharing ideas and processes that inspire her practice.
“ I have been incredibly fortunate to be one of the recipients of the last round for the Axis bursary. This has come at a critical point in the development of new work where I am developing a combined hanging and floor installation to be shown at The Harris Museum later this year as well as a new drawing installation for next year with The National Trust Lake District.
The bursary is enabling me to expand my ideas of drawing, testing materials and expertise exploring expanded drawing to reimagine invisible landscapes and energy. Over the next few months I will be testing ambitious combinations of drawing through absence and AR. ”
Tracy Hill, Birley Artist Studio, Preston, 2025
" Hi, my name is Tracy Hill. Welcome to my studio.
I'm a visual artist living and working in the northwest of England, and my studios is at the Birley Artist Studio space in Preston.
Generally, I work across printmaking, drawing, and installation and I'm really interested in looking at the traditions of the handmade mark combined with digital tools and other disciplines, such as sound and materials such as conductive inks.
As a walking artist, I think of my studio being as much about the space as I walk in, as much as the space I make in then my thinking spaces, my collecting spaces. And my studio here at the Birley is primarily my drawing and testing space where I can spend time with images and materials.
I've been incredibly fortunate to be one of the recipients of the access bursary, and it's really come at a critical point in the development of new work where I'm working at a combined hanging and floor installation to be shown at the Harris Museum later this year, as well as new drawing installations next year with the National Trust in the Late District.
So this bursary is enabling me to work with new materials and expertise, exploring expanded drawing through immersive digital technologies.Thank you so much for this opportunity to share my practice and studio. "
Tracy Hill, transcription from video 2025
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