Sheila Hill
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Sheila Hill is an English artist, writer and theatremaker (creating/directing original performance works).[1][2]
Career[edit]
Based in London, she has made a series of theatre works and art installations for Southbank Centre; Science Museum; Chelsea and Westminster Hospital; Lyric Hammersmith; ICA; Brighton Dome; Glasgow Tramway; Birmingham Rep; and Edinburgh Traverse.
Her work has been written about and reviewed by the Guardian; Observer; Times; The Wire; and across the BBC (In Tune; Woman’s Hour) and ITV arts programmes.
A spinal injury, in her early 30s, removed her from normal life, but intensive rehabilitation slowly turned things around, despite the fact that regaining a functional level of strength took several years. She wrote about this period in a series of newspaper articles, and also in her theatre work, Crocodile Looking At Birds - selected as one of The Observer's Arts Events of the Year.[3][4][5]
As an artist, she draws on real voices, interviewing her subjects and transcribing and editing their words into poetic testimonies, which she uses as her starting material. Her themes have included power and its loss; motherhood; ageing; and finding peace in the digital world.
Works[edit]
- Eye to Eye, The Dome, Brighton Festival, 2019[6][7]
- Him, Royal Festival Hall/Glasgow’s Tramway/Birmingham Rep/Edinburgh Traverse, 2016[8][9][10][11]
- The Question Room, Science Museum, London, 2009
- I See Your Beating Heart, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, 2001
- Crocodile Looking At Birds, Lyric Hammersmith, London, 1995
- My Parents Never Talk To White People, ICA, London, 1994
- Check King Coal, Oval House, London, 1985[12]
She also founded and curated Tabernacle Folk, a four year, progressive, commissioning, international music festival (2010-2013), featuring leading players from the jazz, contemporary, classical and folk worlds, with a series of new works and collaborations. This was voted Critics' Choice Best Gig in London, by Time Out.[13][14]
She has one son, Billy.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Sheila Hill". doollee.com. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ↑ "Sheila Hill". Disability Arts International. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ↑ "Crocodile Looking at Birds (1995)". ITV Film, BFI Archive. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ↑ Parry, Jann (31 December 1995). "A year in the Arts". Observer.
- ↑ Parry, Jann (28 May 1995). "Review". Observer.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, Improviso, Chilly Gonzales, Howard Skempton, Sheila Hill". BBC. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Potty training, Going away with friends, Jude". BBC. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ↑ "Guest Review: Him at the Southbank Centre". Exeunt Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ↑ "Him - A Gentle Triumph". HuffPost UK. 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ↑ "Plan your week's theatre: top tickets". The Guardian. 2016-10-17. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- ↑ Billen, Andrew (5 September 2016). "'Laurence Olivier told me that I could become an actor — and that his hearing was going too'". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
- ↑ David, Hugh (14 December 1984). "Mine Game". Times Educational Supplement. p. 20.
- ↑ Critics' Choice Best Gig in London, Time Out, 29 March - 4 April, 2012.
- ↑ "Eight new works commissioned for Tabernacle Folk Festival". The Wire. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
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