Biography

Born in Birmingham Tracy Hill studied Fine Art at Bournville School of Art, Birmingham, Sheffield Hallam University and The University of Central Lancashire, Preston

Hill’s trans-disciplinary practice investigates the dynamic relationship between our human beliefs and customs, traditions of the hand created image and developing digital technologies.

Combinations of drawing, print and installation invite new encounters with everyday landscapes. Disrupted and reimagined Hill’s images require a visual and cognitive attention intrinsic to walking occupying the place where our digital and physical worlds overlap.

Recent ACE and Heritage funded projects Porosity and Carbon Synthesis reveal the imperceptible energies, which underscore our human experience of and connection to Place.  Both projects connect the permeability of the land with the porousness of the human body, exploring the possibilities of linking art and science to transform perceptions of landscapes, revealing fragile relationships between global living systems, visualising the (in)visible.

In 2022 Hill was awarded a research residency at Centre for Print Research, UWE Bristol to work with The Graphene Application Laboratory to explore the potential of combining traditional print process and Novel Print materials to produce a sensing, responsive print surface.  CFPR Editions

In 2024 Hill participated in the Ars BioArctica Residency programme as part of Carbon Synthesis. Seeking to explore and reveal invisible landscapes and micro environments which require us to feel and see in new ways. Spaces are explored on foot which resist being fully understood or contained without challenging our usual perception, imagination and human timescales.

Recent Exhibitions:

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, (2024) MTG International Print Triennale, Krakow (2024) Fine Toothed Comb, HOME, Manchester (2023) Our World, Our Crisis, The Point. Doncaster (2023) Still and still moving, OD Arts Festival Somerset (2023) Paths of Resistance, Arnofini Bristol (2022) Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair , Woolwich Arsenal London (2020) 21st International Biennial, Ardennes Museum of Charleville-Mézières, France (2022) Ephemeral Bodies, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke (2022) Triennale de Gravure de Liege (2021), MTG International Print Triennial, Kraków (2021), Talking Place, Mandurah, Perth (2019)  The Second Xuyuan International Print Biennial,China (2019) Common Ground: Pacific, University Gallery Newcastle, Australia (2019) Encounters, Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander, Spain (2018) MTG International Print Triennial, Kraków (2018)  The Guanlan International Print Biennial in Shenzhen, China (2017)

Printed works in collections:

Tate Library and Archive, AWARE Archive of Women Artists Research and Exhibitions, Centre for Print Research, UWE, University Gallery Newcastle NSW, International Print Triennial Collection Kraków, Printmaking Museum in Shenzhen, China and Painting and Sculpture Museum. Istanbul.

Awards:

Arts Council England, DYCP (2021), European Printmaking Award, International Print Triennial Krakow (2018), Awagami Paper Award (2017), shortlisted artist for the Triennale de Gravure (2021), Printmaking Today Prize, RBSA Birmingham (2016).

Recent Conferences and Symposia:

Artist talk, Camberwell College of Art (2024) International Design Adaptation Strategies to Reduce the Societal Impact of Climate Change and Coastal Hazards. Engineering and Innovation (2023) Impact 12, Keynote speaker UWE Bristol (2022), Printmaking, Artists’ books, Landscape and Nature LAND2 & Book Arts, UWE (2023), Royal Geographic Society (2022) British Society of Dowsers (2022) Multi-Matrix, Printmaking symposium, Belfast (2020) CREATEC, Edith Cowen University, Perth (2019)

Publications and Essay contributions include:

Translation in Transition: The Cabinet of Curiosities, EVA London (2024) A Fine-Toothed Comb, Cornerhouse productions, HOME (2023) Porosity (2022) ECHTRAI, (2021) Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape photography (2020) Thinking the Sculpture Garden, Art, Plant, Landscape (2020) Polymer Photogravure (contemporary practices in alternative process photography) Clay Harmon (2018) Living Maps Review: Essay Matrix of Movement and Haecceity: Walking in Spatiotemporal Landscapes (2019)