Tracy Hill

Born in Birmingham Tracy Hill studied Fine Art at Bournville School of Art (1990), Birmingham; Sheffield Hallam University (1991-1993) and The University of Central Lancashire, Preston (2013-2015). Hill is a cross- disciplinary artist and research associate at Artlab Contemporary Print Studios at University of Central Lancashire Preston UK. Hill’s practice investigates and reconsiders the relationship between our developing digital capabilities and the aesthetics of the traditional hand created mark. The intersection between our digital and aesthetic worlds is where Hill situates her art works: a hybrid space where technological control meets emotion and memory of the human experience of Landscape.Perceptions of mapping, digital navigation and how we encounter our urban and rural spaces connect with a modern obsession for locating, ordering and fragmenting our experiences. Hill considers that in order to reconnect with ideas of place we must first reconnect with the aesthetic; understand the experience, knowledge and memory of the physical encounter.Through combinations of print, installation and hand drawn imagery Hill invites a new perspective to these landscapes.Disrupted and reimagined images create an opportunity to explore what is beyond a 2d surface becoming a visualisation of the point where our physical and digital worlds overlap, the edge between our world and how we feel to be part of it.Her work is regularly shown nationally and internationally with works held in multiple collections including China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen, Painting and Sculpture Museum Istanbul and the Fine Prints and Drawings archive, Houses of Congress, Washington DC USA. Hill has taken part in several International residencies since 2012 and has recently been awarded The European Printmaking prize (SMTG Krakow International Printmaking Biennial 2018); the Awagami Paper Award (Flourish 2017) Grand prize (WCAF 2017) and the Printmaking Today prize (RBSA print biennial 2016) Hill’s research and practice has been regularly presented at International conferences and symposiums and has been published in Dark Mountain Terra issue 14 Autumn 2018; Polymer Photogravure: A Step-by-Step Manual, Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice (Contemporary Practices in Alternative Process Photography) Paperback – 7 Dec 2018 as well as on line at www.nontoxicprint.com - essays on print, unmapping the world 2018.