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Thomas Hill
COUNTRY OF RESIDENCEUSAEDUCATIONMiddlesex University, 1990 through 1994Suffolk College of Higher & Further Education, 1989 through 1990 SELECTED EXHIBITIONSSELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONSJane Adam and Thomas Hill, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA 2009 New Work by Tom Hill, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA 2006 Solo Exhibition, Red Sky Gallery, Charlotte, NC 2005 Solo Exhibition, Velvet Da Vinci, San Francisco, CA 2003 Solo Exhibition, Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow, Scotland 2003
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Persona, Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2006 Atmospheric, Perspectives, Broughton Gallery Scotland, 2006 CraftBoston, Boston, MA 2006 Collect, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK 2006 100 Brooches, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA 2005 traveling through 2006 SOFA Chicago, Chicago, IL 2005 Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, WI 2005 Chelsea Crafts Fair, London, UK 2005 CraftBoston, Boston, MA 2005 San Francisco Craft Show, American Craft Council, San Francisco, CA 2004 Inside Out, Gallery Flow, London, UK 2004 Element 79, Facere Gallery, Seattle, WA 2004 SOFA Chicago, Bluecoat Display Centre, Chicago, IL 2004 A Bird in the Hand, CERF auction SOFA, Chicago, IL 2004 A Simple Chair, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 200 Rings, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA 2004 traveling through 2005 Dee-Light, Diamond Tanita Gallery, Portland, OR 2004 American Craft Council Baltimore Winter Show, Baltimore, MD 2004 Collect, Velvet da Vinci at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK 2004 Not for the Faint of Heart, Facere Gallery, Seattle, WA 2004 Domesticated Animals, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, 2004 Valuables: Jewelry in the New Millennium, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA 2003 Chess, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA 2003 traveling through 2004 ANTI-WAR MEDALS, Artists Respond to the War, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA 2003 traveling through 2005 Birds in Art, Leigh Hawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI 2003 International Showcase, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK 2003 Summer Exhibition, Newby Hall Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England 2002 Not Human, Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow, Scotland 2002 Fliers, Obsidian Gallery, Tuscon, AZ 2002 Wire Show, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK 2001 Bugs, Alaska Museum of Art and History, Anchorage, AK 2001 Thirteen Hands Scotland, CAOL Crafts Project and Tour, 2001 Nike Presto Project, Organized jointly by Twist, Portland, OR, and Nike, 2001 Natural History, Gallery Flow, London, UK 2001 Scissors, Paper, Rock, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA 2001 Bay Area Metals, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California, 2001 Exhibition in Print, SNAG at SOFA, Chicago, IL 2000 Tiaras Will Be Worn, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA 2000 touring through 2001 A Sense of Scale, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK 1999 Inaugural Show, Geffrye Design Centre, London, UK 1999 Inaugural Show, Gallery Flow, London, UK 1999 Wire Work, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA 1998 The Banqueting Table, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, England 1998 Looking for a Home, Geffrye Museum, London, England 1998 Britain Now, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997 Free to Move, Birmingham School of Jewellery, Touring Mobile Exhibition 1997 New Faces '96, Crafts Council Shop at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England 1996 Islington Makers, Lesley Craze Gallery, London, England 1996 Hackney Contemporaries, The Orangery, London, England 1996 Forged and Fused, Oxford Gallery, Oxford, England 1996 Fabulous Beasts, Organized by Hampshire Sculpture Trust, Staunton Country Park 1996 Exposition Bestiare, Galerie Art and Crafts, 1996 Chelsea Crafts Fair, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, England 1996 Body Ornament, Warrington Arts Gallery, Touring through 1996 The Enchanted Garden, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, England 1995 On Their Metal, Crafts Council Gallery Shop, London, England 1995 My Family and Other Animals, Galerie Art and Crafts Claude Andre, Brussels, Belgium 1995 Hackney Contemporaries, Economist Building, London, England 1995 Chelsea Crafts Fair, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, England 1995 Endangered Wildlife, Lamont Gallery, London, England 1995 Birds of Wire, Studio Sienko, London, England 1995 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS1000 Rings, Lark Books 2004Chess, Velvet da Vinci Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Exhibition in Print 2000, Metalsmith Magazine Nouvel Objet 2, 1997 Crafts Magazine, Ruth Pavey, "The Co-op Headquarters, Rochdale" Jan/Feb 1997 "Wired Thing! Thomas Hill's Metal Menagerie" Crafts Magazine Jan/Feb 1996 "The Art.of Drawing" BBC Education GRANTS AND AWARDSArtist's Choice Award CraftBoston 2006Third Annual Ernie Kim Award, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 2001 Setting-Up Grant, Crafts Council 1995 Best Newcomer, Chelsea Crafts Fair, London, UK 1995 Setting-up Grant, British Crafts Council 1994 COLLECTIONSGeffrye MuseumWakefield City Museum Arthur Andersen PLC Contemporary Arts Society SPECIAL PROJECTSRoyal Liverpool Hospital 2003Mater Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland 2000 John Lewis Department Store, Southampton, UK 2000 Pathé British Film Award at Edinburgh International Festival, commission to design and produce trophy 1999 Pigeon in Flight—After Muybridge, Broad Quay House, Bristol, UK Commissioned by Standard Life Properties 1998 Drawings and wirework for programs/pamphlets, commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra 1996 ARTIST'S STATEMENTI have been a full-time artist since leaving college in 1994 and make pieces both for exhibitions and for corporate, public and private commissions. My pieces are made using mild steel wire, with additions of steel or copper sheet and copper meshes. I consider myself to be both a draftsman and a metalworker. My three-dimensional pieces are based on drawn studies of birds and animals in motion. I find that the steel wire I use behaves in much the same way as a quickly drawn line, and thus I am able to create, in effect, a three-dimensional "sketch".
In this new group of pieces I decided to make a series of cut outs; fanciful drawings that build up "stage sets" where the 3-dimensional pieces are displayed as if in a tableau vivant. Top |
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