TONY HILL

TONY HILL: Biography

Born 1949

Education and Teaching

1968-9 Certificate in Foundation Studies Manchester College of Art and Design
1969-72 Dip AD (BA Hons) in Painting Maidstone College of Art
1972-73 North Rhine Westphalia Scholarship through the British Council
Class of Prof. Joseph Beuys, Staatliche Kunstakademie Dusseldorf
1973-75 HDFA (Lond) The Slade School of Fine Art, University College,
London University
1975 Boise Travel Scholarship to Germany
1975 to date Lecturer in Fine Art Ulster Polytechnic / University of Ulster at Belfast
1991 to 2003 Director for MFA (Master of Fine Art Course)

Exhibitions

1973 “Dusseldorf Artists” at the Goethe Institute, London selected by xxxx Fischer and Rosalind Krauss
1975 “Cross-Reference I” at Canterbury University, organised by Dr Stephen Bann.
“Mourne Wall” an installation with twin projectors, packed lunches and notebooks, Art and Design Centre, Belfast.
“The Last Three Days of September seen in the First Three Days of December” a projection and sound installation, Art and Design Centre, Belfast.
1976 “Cross-Reference II”, at the Concourse Gallery, Polytechnic of Central London.“One Working Week; Accummulator,Debris” a live work and installation, the Fine Art Studio, Art and Design Centre, Belfast.
1977 “Free Phone” an intervention, The Free International University for Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research, FIU Northern Ireland Workshop, Documenta 6, Kassel.
1978 “I Stand- Island” A dual projection work. Staff Show, Art and Design Centre, Belfast.Photographic work included in the “IX Congress of the International Association of Artists; Art and Public” Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart.
“Heading for Home: The Reformation of an Artwork, Part 1; The Debate about Detail that Characterises Democracy”. A performance / presentation in the Boardroom, Art and Design Centre, Belfast.
1979 “Eyemouth Experimental Film Project” with Ron Haseldon, Rose Garrard, Kerry Trengrove and students, Eyemouth, Scotland
1980 “Waiting for Sunshine; a Crime of Political Passion” an installation, Art and Design Centre, Belfast.“Battlefield, Oi-ya-yi-ee” a photographic installation at Art and Research Exchange, Belfast.
1981 “Baths” a sculpture installation and photographs and multi-projection super 8mm films, Octagon Gallery, Belfast. Contributor to “Similia Similibus, Joseph Beuys’ zum 60 Gerburtstag”, By Johannes Stuttgen, Dumont.
1981-82 Exhibitions with the Artists Collective of Northern Ireland at various venues, including Leisure Centres in Belfast. “Jorgen Dobloug - Tony Hill” a joint exhibition of drawings at art and Research Exchange, Belfast. “ The Dumb Steeple” a live work with tape slide projection, Performance Art Programme organised by Nick Stuart, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast.
1984 “Making it Live” a double photographic work for a group exhibition and live art event at Huddersfield Art Gallery. “Where Oceans Meet” sculptures and wall paintings, with Lynne Davies-Jones, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast “Belfast-Dublin” an installation, Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, invited artist, selector Willie Doherty “Making Sense” a live work slide projection, Performance Art Programme, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast.
1986 “Group Exhibition” at Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
1987 “Open Drawing Competition” at Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast “Enclosure Acts” an installation, Redemption, Derry “Son and Two Fathers” a sculpture with photographs, Gingerbread Exhibition, Otter Gallery, Belfast “Without Walls – Where Oceans Meet” a Sculpture with Words, Market Street, Downpatrick.
1988 “ Without Walls” an installation, Window Gallery, University of Ulster at Belfast
“Faxo Mondo” contributor to Internal Fax Project, Projects UK and Artspace Sydney, organiser / curator Adrian Hall
1989 “BR OK EN” an installation, Window Gallery, University of Ulster at Belfast
1990 “Hypen” outdoor sculpture in association with Paul Neagu and students, Narrow Castle Gallery grounds.
1991“Crown/ Castle - Broken/Spilt” a two part sculpture for Poesis Line Object, invited three person exhibition, with Deirdre O’Connell and Willie Heron, Fenderesky Gallery at Queens, Belfast
1993 Invited Curator for Fine Art Staff Exhibition, included sculpture / installation 02, Fenderesky Gallery at Queens
?“The Beautiful Junk Shop” transforming everyday objects, open group exhibition, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
1996 “Day to day” Invitation group exhibition, Context Gallery, Londonderry, curated by Dr Slavka Sverakova
1998 “Transgression” invited group exhibition contesting poetry and visual art, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
1999 “Shadows” two sculptures, invited group exhibition of sculptures, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
2000 “Sculptures”a two-person show with Willie Heron, Fenderesky Gallery
“70/2000 the Road to Meikle Seggie”, a touring exhibition organised by Richard Demarco starting at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston School of Art, London
“State of the Art 2000” The Millenium Exhibition at the Engine Room Gallery, Belfast
2001” the Last Lines of Waiting” a thematic exhibition based on the last three lines of Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’, “neither”, Fenderesky Gallery
2002 “White Paintings and Five Sculptors” invited group exhibition, Fenderesky
2002“Drawings for Peace”a group exhibition, Kentler International Drawing Space,NY through Morgan O’Hara ”Maximising the Rods” installation / event, The Exhibition Space, UU Belfast
2004 “Exhibition in Two Parts” a group show, Fenderesky Gallery
2005 “Body Mind Spirit” Fourth annual competition organised by the Naughton Gallery at Queen’s and sponsored by the School of Nursing and Midwifery, “Mother-Daughter/Midwife”. “The View from the Studio No More” “Art Raffle” John Hewitt Bar, Belfast, in aid of MFA exhibition, photographic work
2006 “Beuys’ Legacy: Unity in Diversity” Goethe-Institut Dublin, Convened by Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes. Contributed a portfolio of 26 black and white photographs of Joseph Beuys taken in 1974.
2007 “Heal”, Sixth annual competition organised by the Naughton Gallery at Queen’s and sponsored by the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Prize Winner with “70 Dandelions at Mountainquarter”. Dublin Art Fair, represented by the Fenderesky Gallery. Exhibition of new Sculptures with Willie Heron at the Fenderesky Gallery. Included in group show at the Fenderesky Gallery. Outside In photowork PS2 Belfast Nov
2008, Siberian Photo Show, Novosibirsk International Photo Festival, State Art Museum, toured to Ekaterinburg, Metenkov Photographic Museum. The Art Fair, Dublin RDS represented by the Fenderesky Gallery. Group Show at the Fenderesky Gallery. Christmas Show;Two Bronzes and Christmas is Over, prints, at the Golden Thread Gallery, Curated by Sarah McAvera.

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