Andrew Hill is a ceramicist specialising in dynamic Raku fired sculptures of the human form and focussing on emotional responses and interactions. Hill's work encourages the observer to imagine past, present and future conversations between his sculptures and imagined others. The meanings behind the sculptures can be perceived to have both dark and light connotations, often containing fun, love, anxiety, sexual tension, anger, but always drama within their sensitive expressions, form and posture.

 

Biographical information: From a very young age, Hill studied pottery at the West Surrey College of Art, moving on in the 1990’s to work at Farnham Pottery under the guidance of Phillip Harris, the last of the Harris family to own the pottery before it became a museum. Hill undertook more formal art education in 2002, with a Three Dimensional Design BA Honours degree from Manchester Metropolitan University, after which he started his first studio in Holmfirth West Yorkshire, producing high fired paper porcelain sculptural forms. After a successful period of selling these forms throughout the UK at art galleries and shows, Hill made a transition to working in the exciting medium of Raku, the current basis of his work, from his new base in the Peak District, using as inspiration the many characterful people in his surroundings, for example in the farming communities.