Images: Michael PollardRelic (2026)
Three-channel audio-video installation, 10 mins approx.
Commissioned for Curtain Up group exhibition, Lowry, Salford, 17/04/26 - 21/06/26
Relic continues my ongoing documentation and exploration of Loughborough Fair—one of the UK’s few surviving medieval charter fairs, dating back to the 1200s, that still annually occupies town-centre streets. Translating my experience of the fair into an large scale in-the-round installation, Relic reflects the circularity typical of fairground rides, where visitors find themselves gazing outwards or inwards. Looking into the installation, viewers are faced with each other as well as other onlookers within the work, playfully muddling the sense of a singular perspective or audience.
Credits
DOP - Paul Daly
Producer - Scout Stuart
Sound Design - Stefan Smith
Projection - Max Thompson
Three-channel audio-video installation, 10 mins approx.
Commissioned for Curtain Up group exhibition, Lowry, Salford, 17/04/26 - 21/06/26
Relic continues my ongoing documentation and exploration of Loughborough Fair—one of the UK’s few surviving medieval charter fairs, dating back to the 1200s, that still annually occupies town-centre streets. Translating my experience of the fair into an large scale in-the-round installation, Relic reflects the circularity typical of fairground rides, where visitors find themselves gazing outwards or inwards. Looking into the installation, viewers are faced with each other as well as other onlookers within the work, playfully muddling the sense of a singular perspective or audience.
Credits
DOP - Paul Daly
Producer - Scout Stuart
Sound Design - Stefan Smith
Projection - Max Thompson
“Loughborough Fair is quite literally a medieval relic, and the various strands of Curtain Up conjoin in Hill’s installation. Palpably generating collective effervescence, its dizzying effect does at times come close to the transcendental thrill we seek on fairground rides, those precious moments when we lose ourselves entirely. I think of Dewey again, wondering how close the hedonistic rush of the fairground could be to a supernatural experience of communion. Has Hill found, and recreated in this gallery, one of the true sites of secular religious experience? Or perhaps, by packaging it within the props of its own artifice and turning our gaze back on ourselves, she’s done something more interesting.”
- Jazmine Linklater, Curtain Up Review, Corridor8
- Jazmine Linklater, Curtain Up Review, Corridor8