Expertly curated, No Place Like Home features the work of local and internationally acclaimed artists and invites Islanders to consider their ‘home’ on a personal, national, global and even cosmic scale.
The exhibition features 23 gallery based artworks and three external installation pieces, all of which explore ‘home’ from different perspectives, including considerations around Jersey’s housing crisis and international perspectives on the health of our planet. Whilst we live in a time when this can be a complex and serious subject, the pieces on display are often playful and interactive and invite the viewer to reflect on their own interpretation and experience.
The globe
Appearing deceptively simple, the ten-metre globe is crafted from fabric adorned with high-resolution imagery sourced from NASA. Its internal lighting system adds an ethereal quality to the installation. However, beneath the surface of the water, it conceals a substantial eight tons of mooring gear, endowing it with the ability to withstand winds of up to 40mph.
Acrylic on salvaged demolition concrete 2020.
Since 2018, Hills’ work has been focused on the Aylesbury estate in south east London investigating how community identity is affected and reframed by the process of redevelopment and gentrification.
The Aylesbury Fragments are an extraordinary act of preservation, rendering scenes of her local architecture directly onto pieces of salvaged material from the Aylesbury Estate, which is being demolished as part of a regeneration program.
The Aylesbury Estate was designed by the architect Hans Peter Trenton, and was considered exemplary social housing designed to meet the needs of people who lived there. The building’s construction began in 1963 and housed approximately 10,000 people. It is now in the final phase of being demolished in order to make way for redevelopment and Hill has spent several years documenting this place as it disappears piece by piece, and at each stage of degradation; as tenants are moved out and those in desperate need are temporarily housed. The concrete is imbued with the contentious history of the site, what remains are fragments of peoples lives.
