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Joanna Hill

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Books: Exploratory, experimental, collaborative.

AMBruno projects provide a spur to explore a specific theme, to which I bring my own ideas and interests. My approach to making books is exploratory; it enables me to experiment with new approaches, printmaking and learn new skills, and collaborate with other artists.

still life with lemons II by Joanna Hill

Joanna Hill - still life with lemons II (2011)
SD 4:3 format. Silent. 101 second film.

Short films

moving or still
in front or behind
next to or in between
intended or by chance
present or absent
past, present or future
in the centre or on the edge
object or reflection
touching or separate
whole or incomplete
kept or discarded
seen and or felt
forgotten or remembered

Joanna Hill: I work in moving image, but what I convey is often a sense of stillness. It is my intention to slow or still time, to play with time sway, to be in the present, immersed in each image in a kind of 'intensive seeing'.

I film food, objects, small gestures, like still life paintings, the material base of life that is familiar but constantly overlooked. Through a narrow or focused vision, a blank or empty background I try to create a space for projection, for thoughts, memories, dreams and desire.

Birds & beasts, a story in XVI linocuts by Joanna Hill & Sarah Hill

Joanna Hill & Sarah Hill -
Birds & beasts, a story in XVI linocuts (2013)

Birds & beasts, a story in XVI linocuts is part of AMBruno's 16 collection. Inspired by medieval bestiary, where an illustration is accompanied by a myth as a moral lesson. A book of 16 linocuts, hand tinted with colour and adorned with gold and copper leaf. Japanese stab binding. Edition of 160.

Name code draw - Three ways to describe a place by Joanna Hill

Joanna Hill -
Name code draw - Three ways to describe a place (2012)

Name code draw - Three ways to describe a place is part of AMBruno's Black Circle collection. A book describing seven mountains and one lake, in the Lake District, Cumbria. Inkjet print on Snowdon bookpaper, 130gsm. Japanese stab binding. Open edition

still life with glass & garlic by Joanna Hill

Joanna Hill - still life with glass & garlic (2010)
SD 4:3 format. Silent. 101 second film.

still life with oranges I by Joanna Hill

Joanna Hill - still life with oranges I (2011)
SD 4:3 format. Silent. 101 second film.

still life with oranges II by Joanna Hill

Joanna Hill - still life with oranges II (2011)
SD 4:3 format. Silent. 101 second film.

still life with lemons I by Joanna Hill

Joanna Hill - still life with lemons I (2011)
SD 4:3 format. silent. 101 second film.

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