Creative Exchange – Hillier

Analysing, reducing and interpreting the human form

Art Acumen are delighted to be showcasing a collection of sculpture by Joseph Hillier, in which he harnesses the awesome possibilities of digital technologies to create a body of work that ‘questions the digital revolution we are living through’ using the primal power of the human form as his means of expression.

“Through the sculpture I make I aim to re-interpret the human form by rendering it in new processes and forming it through complex geometric operations. By reviewing the body in these ways I aim to reconsider the way we view ourselves, in many terms: from our atomic makeup to our societal structures. When making work for a particular site I see the site and context as the subject of the work, for example in Our Image was made for a site near an industrial park and town, and the work acts as a monument to the people who live and work there, the profiles of the figures occupying the larger 16.7m high structure are taken from some of the many people who fabricated the work with me”.

Hillier’s work has been widely exhibited, commissioned and collected in the UK, US and Ireland over the last decade. Recent public works include Binary Conversation, Newbury 2012 and Generation, three monumental works installed in the new central square of Newcastle University in 2012.

This exhibition is part of a series supported by Grosvenor, and will be on show at 33 Davies Street throughout the summer.