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Bio
Jon Hillier finds material that is already carrying more than it knows — usually from art's own history, its documents and institutional apparatus — and makes one precise move that lets the charge show through. The works follow structural rhymes across time: unplanned echoes between names, dates, and gestures that repeat across decades without anyone orchestrating them. The interventions are minimal. The encounters are not.
Statement
I find charged sense in the world and make forms that let other people feel it too.
The material is usually already loaded — art's documents, its institutional apparatus, its accidental archives. I notice a structural rhyme, a coincidence that isn't really a coincidence, an echo that was always there. Then I make one exact move: extracting a colour channel, pairing a text with its unknowing prophecy, turning a document over, drawing on a reproduction.
The power is in the precision of the recognition, not in the scale of the gesture. The tone spans gravity and absurdity. The public text does the minimum. The encounter does the rest.
CV
- 2018 Falmouth College of Art