CV
Rowland Hill
b. 1989, Leicester (UK)
CURRENT / FORTHCOMING
2021 Microneme x Holden Gallery, online exhibition, Wuhan and Manchester
UK New Artists, Leicester
SOLO & DUO SHOWS / PERFORMANCES
2020 Do you think you’re better off alone?, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2019 Opera, The Holden Gallery, Manchester (with Jack Sheen, curated by Zoe Watson)
Interjectional Exercises, The Portico Library, Manchester
Interesting Times, ilyd.nu, UK/DK (curated by Dyveke Bredsdorff)
2015 Studio, The Northern Charter, Newcastle (curated by Tess Denman-Cleaver)
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2021 No-body’s room x LUX, The Room Projects, Paris
2020 Correspondance / Correspondence, Videographé, Montreal
Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London (selected by Hetain Patel)
Hold On, The Koppel Project, London
2019 Fracto Film Encounter, ACUD, Berlin
The Lived Female Body in Performance Symposium, Live Art Bistro, Leeds
Bankley Open Call, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
Time Crush, Organon, Odense
neo:art prize exhibition, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
22nd International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair, The Tetley, Leeds
Soundings, Raven Row, London
Post Paradise, Centrala, Birmingham
Against the run of play, St Paul’s House, Deptford Market Yard, London
2018 London Radical Book Fair, Goldsmiths University, London
Visible Speech, The Portico Library, Manchester
An assembly: D’Heudieres, Hill, Usher, 3 part UK film screening including Centrala, Birmingham
The Hand of the Artist, Old Telephone Exchange, London (curated by Roaming Room)
Graduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
In So Many Words, The Portico Library, Manchester (curated by James Moss)
2017 Three - Rua Dom Carlos, Mascarenhas n.22, Lisbon
Small Press Sound Project, Slade Research Centre, London
Progress/Regress, Crypt Gallery, London
Authentic Tongues, Bloomsbury Theatre
Cinema Flux, Flux Factory, NYC
Many Hares Running, Charlton Gallery, London
2016 Kgnm Fest, Cologne
Abeerance, Platform Southwark, London
Praxis, The Advisory, London
Emergency Festival, Z Arts, Manchester
A Pixel Or Digit?, Parfitt Gallery, London (curated by Turf Projects)
Tracing Paper, Paper Gallery, Manchester
Diving into the Wreckage, The Old Police Station, London
ddmmyy, Sandbar, Manchester
Science in the City Festival, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
2015 Fleck, 10 part UK and Europe tour including Splendor, Amsterdam; Mayhem, Copenhagen; Del Rex, Berlin
London Short Film Festival, ICA, London
FOKUS Video Fest, Copenhagen Contemporary Arts Centre
Broadcast, Liverpool Small Cinema, Liverpool
Elsie and Hannah, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Snakebox and Friends, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
Elsie and Hannah, The Whitworth Art Gallery
2014 Delia Derbyshire Day, 5 part UK film screening including The Horse Hospital, London
Quays Culture Northern Artists' Film, Salford Media City
Project RE:Rite, Royal Northern College of Music
Sonic Fusion Film Festival, Salford University and The University of Chicago
Show & Thumb, Paramount Books, Manchester
Parallel Vienna, Altes Zollamt, Vienna
Flatpack, Federation House, Manchester (curated by Amy Lawrence)
Cue: Art in Manchester, group show, Piccadilly Place, Manchester (curated by James Moss)
SELECTED CURATED PROJECTS
2020 The Winner Takes it All, Montez Press Radio, New York City
A listening hour co-curated with Gabriella Hirst, with works by Rosa Johan Uddoh, Larisa Crunçeanu
Spaces-in-Between, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Five commissioned video works by
Supported by The British Council, Arts Council England and the RNCM
2019 Soundings, Raven Row, London
A performative listening event co-curated with Dyveke Bredsdorff
with works by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Reman Sadini, Jessa Mockridge, Jo Pester and Karolina Stellaki
2018 Body as Archive, Slade Research Centre, London
An exhibition of 18 live works & film programme, co-curated by Amy Steel and Taylor
with works by Sondra Perry, Jayne Parker, Jennifer Walshe, Onyeka Igwe, Gabriella Hirst, Kimberley Beach
Video Jam x Basquiat, Barbican Hall, London
Six commissioned video works by Victoria Keddie, Ephraim Asili, Gabriella Ledet, Topher Campbell
Supported by Arts Council England, The Barbican and The Jonathan Ruffer Foundation
2017 Show & Tell, A.M, London
Co-curated by Ralph Pritchard, with
Rosa Johan-Uddoh, Laura Hindmarsh & Alice Lea
PERFORMER OF WORK BY OTHERS
2019 Solos for Voice by John Cage, John Cage: Maybe Even Beyond the Delta, The Lowry, Salford
Tape Piece by Andy Ingamells & Maya Verlaak, Archway Sound Symposium, The Bomb Factory, London
2018 we shall run by Yvonne Rainer (UK premiere), LCMF - Structural Faults, Ambika P3, London
cus I’ve been acting like sour milk spilled on the floor by Josh Virtz, SET Studios, London, UK
Tate and the Lyle-ettes by Rosa Johan-Uddoh, The Henry Moore Room, Tate Britain, UK
Tape Piece by Andy Ingamells & Maya Verlaak, Body as Archive, Slade Research Centre, London
Why are all my tutors white, baby? by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Slade Research Centre, London, UK
2017 Book Concerto in One Act by Elizabeth S. Clark, LCMF - Ruins in Reverse, Ambika P3, London, UK
EAR ACTION by Neo Hülker & Stellan Veolce, LCMF - New Intimacy I, Ambika P3, London, UK
Tape Piece by Andy Ingamells and Maya Verlaak, LCMF - New Intimacy I, Ambika P3, London, UK
AWARDS & GRANTS
2019 Jerwood Bursary
a-n Artist Bursary
2018 Dean’s Fund, Slade School of Fine Art
Manchester Culture Award (with Video Jam)
Shortlisted for the Duveen Award
2017 The Clare Winsten Memorial Award, Slade School of Fine Art
UCL Changemakers Grant
Shortlisted for the Sekforde Trust
2015 Creative Skillset Grant
NOMINATIONS
2018 Aspen Digital Art Prize, Slade School of Fine Art
Adrian Carruthers Studio Award, Slade School of Fine Art
Boise Travel Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art
2017 ACS Bursary Prize, Slade School of Fine Art
RESIDENCIES
2017 Flux Factory, Long Island, New York City
2016 Inventory, Brgy, London
Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
Aldeburgh Music
2015 REACT, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester - with Legroom
Paper Gallery, Manchester
PUBICATIONS & WRITING
2021 ‘hold on’ exhibition catalogue, The Koppel Project
2018 ‘Brgy. South Kensington’, exhibition catalogue, published by UnBound
SPP 3, Small Press Project vinyl publication, curated by Hannah Dargavel-Leafe
2017 ‘Copy Copy’, The Small Press Project
2015 Catalogue essay for Feint by James Moss, published by Fuse Arts Space, Bradford
Script editor and director for ‘Fleck, Flob, Flop’ by Joe Snape
TEACHING
2019 Masterclass for Filmmaking BA Talent Lab, Manchester School of Art
Mentor for graduating Manchester School of Art BA Film students
SELECTED TALKS & ENGAGEMENTS
2020 Workshop for Contact Theatre
2019 Judge for ‘Gallery Work’ award, Move Film Festival, Manchester School of Art
2018 Performance Workshops, Manchester Deaf Centre
Artist talk, Loughborough High School
Judge for TENT Academy Awards Film Festival 2018
2016 Workshops, Brighter Sound, Manchester
Artist talk, HOME, Manchester
2015 Artist talk, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
Artist talk, Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Zion Arts Centre, Manchester
Workshops, Blaze Festival, Burnley
2014 Workshop, Falmouth University
Artist talk, Kino shorts, Manchester
PRESS & FEATURES
2019 Featured artist for Ambit Issue 238
‘A Thing Unseen: An interview with Rowland Hill’, Still Life Issue 4: Ways to Disappear
A5 magazine, February 2019 Issue
2018 ‘On Location: An assembly’, The Wire, Issue 418 - review of Tha-at’s right
‘Trip Report: An Assembly play Charlie Usher and Rowland Hill’, Boring like a Drill, 16/10/18
‘Ten Artists to Watch’, Elephant, 24/07/18
‘Rowland Hill’s Digital Relics and Provocation’, 5 Questions, Elephant, 09/07/18
‘Unmissable Culture of 2018’, The Guardian 02/01/18 - preview of Video Jam x Basquiat
2015 ‘Young, Creative and Manc, i-D, 30/06/15
FORMAL & ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION
2021 The Exchange, an alternative learning project co-organised by Eastside Projects, Turf Projects, The
NewBridge Project, CAMP, G39 (WARP), and Spike Island
2018 MA Fine Art, The Slade School of Fine Art (UCL), London (Distinction)
2014 BFI and LUX Experimenta Forum, BFI Southbank, London (led by Ed Webb-Ingall)
2012 Foundation in Art and Design, Manchester School of Art (Distinction)
2011 BA Drama and English, University of Manchester (1st Class Hons)
Rowland Hill
b. 1989, Leicester (UK)
CURRENT / FORTHCOMING
2021 Microneme x Holden Gallery, online exhibition, Wuhan and Manchester
UK New Artists, Leicester
SOLO & DUO SHOWS / PERFORMANCES
2020 Do you think you’re better off alone?, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2019 Opera, The Holden Gallery, Manchester (with Jack Sheen, curated by Zoe Watson)
Interjectional Exercises, The Portico Library, Manchester
Interesting Times, ilyd.nu, UK/DK (curated by Dyveke Bredsdorff)
2015 Studio, The Northern Charter, Newcastle (curated by Tess Denman-Cleaver)
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2021 No-body’s room x LUX, The Room Projects, Paris
2020 Correspondance / Correspondence, Videographé, Montreal
Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London (selected by Hetain Patel)
Hold On, The Koppel Project, London
2019 Fracto Film Encounter, ACUD, Berlin
The Lived Female Body in Performance Symposium, Live Art Bistro, Leeds
Bankley Open Call, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
Time Crush, Organon, Odense
neo:art prize exhibition, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
22nd International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair, The Tetley, Leeds
Soundings, Raven Row, London
Post Paradise, Centrala, Birmingham
Against the run of play, St Paul’s House, Deptford Market Yard, London
2018 London Radical Book Fair, Goldsmiths University, London
Visible Speech, The Portico Library, Manchester
An assembly: D’Heudieres, Hill, Usher, 3 part UK film screening including Centrala, Birmingham
The Hand of the Artist, Old Telephone Exchange, London (curated by Roaming Room)
Graduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
In So Many Words, The Portico Library, Manchester (curated by James Moss)
2017 Three - Rua Dom Carlos, Mascarenhas n.22, Lisbon
Small Press Sound Project, Slade Research Centre, London
Progress/Regress, Crypt Gallery, London
Authentic Tongues, Bloomsbury Theatre
Cinema Flux, Flux Factory, NYC
Many Hares Running, Charlton Gallery, London
2016 Kgnm Fest, Cologne
Abeerance, Platform Southwark, London
Praxis, The Advisory, London
Emergency Festival, Z Arts, Manchester
A Pixel Or Digit?, Parfitt Gallery, London (curated by Turf Projects)
Tracing Paper, Paper Gallery, Manchester
Diving into the Wreckage, The Old Police Station, London
ddmmyy, Sandbar, Manchester
Science in the City Festival, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
2015 Fleck, 10 part UK and Europe tour including Splendor, Amsterdam; Mayhem, Copenhagen; Del Rex, Berlin
London Short Film Festival, ICA, London
FOKUS Video Fest, Copenhagen Contemporary Arts Centre
Broadcast, Liverpool Small Cinema, Liverpool
Elsie and Hannah, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Snakebox and Friends, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
Elsie and Hannah, The Whitworth Art Gallery
2014 Delia Derbyshire Day, 5 part UK film screening including The Horse Hospital, London
Quays Culture Northern Artists' Film, Salford Media City
Project RE:Rite, Royal Northern College of Music
Sonic Fusion Film Festival, Salford University and The University of Chicago
Show & Thumb, Paramount Books, Manchester
Parallel Vienna, Altes Zollamt, Vienna
Flatpack, Federation House, Manchester (curated by Amy Lawrence)
Cue: Art in Manchester, group show, Piccadilly Place, Manchester (curated by James Moss)
SELECTED CURATED PROJECTS
2020 The Winner Takes it All, Montez Press Radio, New York City
A listening hour co-curated with Gabriella Hirst, with works by Rosa Johan Uddoh, Larisa Crunçeanu
Spaces-in-Between, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Five commissioned video works by
Supported by The British Council, Arts Council England and the RNCM
2019 Soundings, Raven Row, London
A performative listening event co-curated with Dyveke Bredsdorff
with works by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Reman Sadini, Jessa Mockridge, Jo Pester and Karolina Stellaki
2018 Body as Archive, Slade Research Centre, London
An exhibition of 18 live works & film programme, co-curated by Amy Steel and Taylor
with works by Sondra Perry, Jayne Parker, Jennifer Walshe, Onyeka Igwe, Gabriella Hirst, Kimberley Beach
Video Jam x Basquiat, Barbican Hall, London
Six commissioned video works by Victoria Keddie, Ephraim Asili, Gabriella Ledet, Topher Campbell
Supported by Arts Council England, The Barbican and The Jonathan Ruffer Foundation
2017 Show & Tell, A.M, London
Co-curated by Ralph Pritchard, with Rosa Johan-Uddoh, Laura Hindmarsh & Alice Lea
PERFORMER OF WORK BY OTHERS
2019 Solos for Voice by John Cage, John Cage: Maybe Even Beyond the Delta, The Lowry, Salford
Tape Piece by Andy Ingamells & Maya Verlaak, Archway Sound Symposium, The Bomb Factory, London
2018 we shall run by Yvonne Rainer (UK premiere), LCMF - Structural Faults, Ambika P3, London
cus I’ve been acting like sour milk spilled on the floor by Josh Virtz, SET Studios, London, UK
Tate and the Lyle-ettes by Rosa Johan-Uddoh, The Henry Moore Room, Tate Britain, UK
Tape Piece by Andy Ingamells & Maya Verlaak, Body as Archive, Slade Research Centre, London
Why are all my tutors white, baby? by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Slade Research Centre, London, UK
2017 Book Concerto in One Act by Elizabeth S. Clark, LCMF - Ruins in Reverse, Ambika P3, London, UK
EAR ACTION by Neo Hülker & Stellan Veolce, LCMF - New Intimacy I, Ambika P3, London, UK
Tape Piece by Andy Ingamells and Maya Verlaak, LCMF - New Intimacy I, Ambika P3, London, UK
AWARDS & GRANTS
2019 Jerwood Bursary
a-n Artist Bursary
2018 Dean’s Fund, Slade School of Fine Art
Manchester Culture Award (with Video Jam)
Shortlisted for the Duveen Award
2017 The Clare Winsten Memorial Award, Slade School of Fine Art
UCL Changemakers Grant
Shortlisted for the Sekforde Trust
2015 Creative Skillset Grant
NOMINATIONS
2018 Aspen Digital Art Prize, Slade School of Fine Art
Adrian Carruthers Studio Award, Slade School of Fine Art
Boise Travel Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art
2017 ACS Bursary Prize, Slade School of Fine Art
RESIDENCIES
2017 Flux Factory, Long Island, New York City
2016 Inventory, Brgy, London
Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
Aldeburgh Music
2015 REACT, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester - with Legroom
Paper Gallery, Manchester
PUBICATIONS & WRITING
2021 ‘hold on’ exhibition catalogue, The Koppel Project
2018 ‘Brgy. South Kensington’, exhibition catalogue, published by UnBound
SPP 3, Small Press Project vinyl publication, curated by Hannah Dargavel-Leafe
2017 ‘Copy Copy’, The Small Press Project
2015 Catalogue essay for Feint by James Moss, published by Fuse Arts Space, Bradford
Script editor and director for ‘Fleck, Flob, Flop’ by Joe Snape
TEACHING
2019 Masterclass for Filmmaking BA Talent Lab, Manchester School of Art
Mentor for graduating Manchester School of Art BA Film students
SELECTED TALKS & ENGAGEMENTS
2020 Workshop for Contact Theatre
2019 Judge for ‘Gallery Work’ award, Move Film Festival, Manchester School of Art
2018 Performance Workshops, Manchester Deaf Centre
Artist talk, Loughborough High School
Judge for TENT Academy Awards Film Festival 2018
2016 Workshops, Brighter Sound, Manchester
Artist talk, HOME, Manchester
2015 Artist talk, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
Artist talk, Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Zion Arts Centre, Manchester
Workshops, Blaze Festival, Burnley
2014 Workshop, Falmouth University
Artist talk, Kino shorts, Manchester
PRESS & FEATURES
2019 Featured artist for Ambit Issue 238
‘A Thing Unseen: An interview with Rowland Hill’, Still Life Issue 4: Ways to Disappear
A5 magazine, February 2019 Issue
2018 ‘On Location: An assembly’, The Wire, Issue 418 - review of Tha-at’s right
‘Trip Report: An Assembly play Charlie Usher and Rowland Hill’, Boring like a Drill, 16/10/18
‘Ten Artists to Watch’, Elephant, 24/07/18
‘Rowland Hill’s Digital Relics and Provocation’, 5 Questions, Elephant, 09/07/18
‘Unmissable Culture of 2018’, The Guardian 02/01/18 - preview of Video Jam x Basquiat
2015 ‘Young, Creative and Manc, i-D, 30/06/15
2021 The Exchange, an alternative learning project co-organised by Eastside Projects, Turf Projects, The
NewBridge Project, CAMP, G39 (WARP), and Spike Island
2018 MA Fine Art, The Slade School of Fine Art (UCL), London (Distinction)
2014 BFI and LUX Experimenta Forum, BFI Southbank, London (led by Ed Webb-Ingall)
2012 Foundation in Art and Design, Manchester School of Art (Distinction)
2011 BA Drama and English, University of Manchester (1st Class Hons)
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