I think you imagine, I imagine you think by Joseph Hillier

The sculpture

Built from discs of stainless steel welded together, this sculpture was commissioned by the university to display within our Business School.

It is at once solid and fragmented, light and heavy, there and not there, reflecting and absorbing. Perhaps it is a work that represents our complex human state?

The artist

Hillier was born in Cornwall in 1974. He began his studies at Falmouth College of Art, then achieved a place at Newcastle University. After graduation, Hillier held a Fine Art research post at Newcastle University for a number of years, while creating a series of exhibitions in the UK. 

Hillier received the ‘Year of the Artist Award’ from the Arts Council of England in 2000. He also completed his earliest publicly sited projects during this year. In 2001, he won a scholarship and teaching role at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he completed an MFA and taught on the BA for a year.

It was while at Tulane University that Hillier crafted the collection of works entitled Being Human. The entire group of five large works were sold to a single corporate collection, while being shipped back to the UK.

This sale funded Hillier’s first studio in London, where he completed the installation Generation. He held his first solo show in London at APT Gallery in 2005.