I am an artist living and working in Manchester.
I draw on the dramatic forms and sites of entertainment and spectacle — from fairgrounds to opera — to create immersive, beguiling and sometimes unsettling installation, performance and video work, as well as experimental events, curated projects and collages. My live work takes dramatic tropes and “elegantly translates them into performances which are often characterized by theatrical suspense” (Elephant). I work site-specifically and continue to draw on my background studying theatre, fine art and music in approaching space, form and audience.
I am also a performer and greatly enjoy interpreting the work of other artists across a variety of disciplines, which have included UK premieres of work by Yvonne Rainer and Vito Acconci, at venues such as Tate Britain, London Contemporary Music Festival and the Lowry (Salford). I am currently co-directing a production of Samuel Beckett’s “Quad” for Refracted Sound, an event this November at the Southbank Centre produced by the London Sinfonietta.
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 (for Video Jam, 2018); the Clare Winsten Memorial Award (Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2017).
I draw on the dramatic forms and sites of entertainment and spectacle — from fairgrounds to opera — to create immersive, beguiling and sometimes unsettling installation, performance and video work, as well as experimental events, curated projects and collages. My live work takes dramatic tropes and “elegantly translates them into performances which are often characterized by theatrical suspense” (Elephant). I work site-specifically and continue to draw on my background studying theatre, fine art and music in approaching space, form and audience.
I am also a performer and greatly enjoy interpreting the work of other artists across a variety of disciplines, which have included UK premieres of work by Yvonne Rainer and Vito Acconci, at venues such as Tate Britain, London Contemporary Music Festival and the Lowry (Salford). I am currently co-directing a production of Samuel Beckett’s “Quad” for Refracted Sound, an event this November at the Southbank Centre produced by the London Sinfonietta.
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 (for Video Jam, 2018); the Clare Winsten Memorial Award (Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2017).