I am an artist based in Manchester working across the visual and performing arts. I studied Drama and English before graduating in 2018 with a Masters from the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where I received the Clare Winsten Memorial Award.
Central to my artistic practice is the collaging and remixing of found media, driven by my interest in systems of language and representation. Much of my work is concerned with the fundamentals of performance, such as liveness, presence and the unfolding of a situation in time and space. I use stagecraft, choreography and the presence of audiences to create intimate, beguiling and at times unsettling events and environments characterised by dramatic suspense.
I am also a performer/director and enjoy interpreting the work of other artists across a variety of disciplines. Most recently I co-directed a production of Samuel Beckett’s Quad I + II with composer/conductor Jack Sheen for Refracted Sound, an event at the Southbank Centre produced by the London Sinfonietta. I have performed UK premieres of work by Yvonne Rainer and Vito Acconci, at venues such as Tate Britain, London Contemporary Music Festival and the Lowry (Salford).
Bio // Rowland Hill (b. Leicester, 1989). Recent exhibitions: PAGE/STAGE/SPACE (Group exhibition, San Mei Gallery, London, 2024, curated by Motor Dance Journal); Desire Lines Pavilion (Group exhibition, Pase Platform, Venice Biennale Collateral Event, 2024); Logical Song (Solo, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 2024); Salamagundy (Performance, Dreamland, Margate, 2022, commissioned by Mark Leckey, produced by Turner Contemporary); The Winner Takes it All (Broadcast, Montez Press Radio, New York City, 2021, curated with Gabriella Hirst); Nobody’s Room (Group Exhibition, LUX & The Room Projects, Paris, 2021); Correspondance / Correspondence (Group exhibition, Videographé, Montreal, 2020); Soundings (Performance, Raven Row, London, 2019, curated with Dyveke Bredsdorff). Recent awards & bursaries: Manchester Open Award (Castlefield Gallery and HOME, Manchester, 2024); Jerwood & MAYK Grant (Shortlist, 2023); Jerwood Bursary (2019); Manchester Culture Award (as curator of Video Jam, 2018); the Clare Winsten Memorial Award (Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2017).
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Central to my artistic practice is the collaging and remixing of found media, driven by my interest in systems of language and representation. Much of my work is concerned with the fundamentals of performance, such as liveness, presence and the unfolding of a situation in time and space. I use stagecraft, choreography and the presence of audiences to create intimate, beguiling and at times unsettling events and environments characterised by dramatic suspense.
I am also a performer/director and enjoy interpreting the work of other artists across a variety of disciplines. Most recently I co-directed a production of Samuel Beckett’s Quad I + II with composer/conductor Jack Sheen for Refracted Sound, an event at the Southbank Centre produced by the London Sinfonietta. I have performed UK premieres of work by Yvonne Rainer and Vito Acconci, at venues such as Tate Britain, London Contemporary Music Festival and the Lowry (Salford).
Bio // Rowland Hill (b. Leicester, 1989). Recent exhibitions: PAGE/STAGE/SPACE (Group exhibition, San Mei Gallery, London, 2024, curated by Motor Dance Journal); Desire Lines Pavilion (Group exhibition, Pase Platform, Venice Biennale Collateral Event, 2024); Logical Song (Solo, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 2024); Salamagundy (Performance, Dreamland, Margate, 2022, commissioned by Mark Leckey, produced by Turner Contemporary); The Winner Takes it All (Broadcast, Montez Press Radio, New York City, 2021, curated with Gabriella Hirst); Nobody’s Room (Group Exhibition, LUX & The Room Projects, Paris, 2021); Correspondance / Correspondence (Group exhibition, Videographé, Montreal, 2020); Soundings (Performance, Raven Row, London, 2019, curated with Dyveke Bredsdorff). Recent awards & bursaries: Manchester Open Award (Castlefield Gallery and HOME, Manchester, 2024); Jerwood & MAYK Grant (Shortlist, 2023); Jerwood Bursary (2019); Manchester Culture Award (as curator of Video Jam, 2018); the Clare Winsten Memorial Award (Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2017).
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