Bon Chance

Kitty Hillier

BIOGRAPHY

b.1984

• Winner - Bruton Arts Society Award 2003
• Foundation Art - Falmouth, 2004
• Graduated from Bath Spa University in 2007 with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Fine Art Painting.
• "Vitamin B" - Old Truman Brewery, London (in association with Free Range)
• Artist in Residence - Hazlegrove School, 2007-2008
• "Friends Summer Exhibition" - Hazlegrove School 2008
• "Local Artists Exhibition" - Kilver Court 2008
• Land Art Project - Kings School Bruton (willow sculpture project undertaken with 4thform pupils) 2008
• "New Works" (solo show) - The Art School Gallery, Kings Taunton 2009
• "Friends Summer Exhibition" - Hazlegrove School 2009
• River Parrett Re-Visited Project (lead various school workshops) 2009
• "Somerset Art Weeks" - The Art School Gallery, Kings Taunton 2009
• "Artists 303 Open Exhibition", Shepton Mallet 2009
• "Art For Youth London", Open Exhibition - Mall Galleries, Westminster 2009
• WINNER - Reveal Emerging Artist Award 2009
• "Twelve" - Musgrove Gallery Christmas Show, Musgrove Park Hospital 2009
• "Vision" - Ilminster Arts Centre 2010
• "Art on the Block" - Castle Hotel, Taunton 2010

Currently lives and works in Somerset.

"In these latest pieces, my interest in exploring methods of abstract painting and surface continues. The approach is experimental and the shapes I layer together derive from a variety of sources - the paintings evolve through a slow process of layering, balancing and re-working. I am fascinated with how this vocabulary of painted and carved marks work together and react with or against each-other on the two-dimensional plane. Often a deeper space is also created which the viewer may be drawn into; it is my intention that through a process of interpretation the viewer will bring their own narratives to the work."