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Furrow
Joseph Hillier
Mansle Gardens
“This piece is about the ploughed fields that surround Watlington and the story of the Watlington Horde: a collection of bracelets, amulets, coins and lozenge shaped melted down bits of silver buried here in Anglo-Saxon times” …
“Furrow has a continuous line, like a ploughman who starts from a point and works around and around until the field is ploughed. But then there are these lozenge shaped interruptions which represent the bits of silver that were found beneath the earth.”
“I’m playing with things that interest me as a sculptor and the way we navigate a landscape. The way someone driving a tractor navigates a field making beautiful patterns without necessarily being aware of it.”
About Joseph Hillier
Joseph Hillier is a British Artist, raised in Cornwall who has lived and worked in London, New Orleans and now Northumberland. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors and has created over twenty public works. His work is an exploration of our humanity, relative to the geometry and constructs of contemporary culture. Hiller re-makes the human body in various materials and via ancient and recent advances in technology, framing his figurative works in the current culture of things.