Hilary Lloyd

Hilary Lloyd is an English artist working in video, sound, sculpture, painting and installation. Her exhibition of film and video at Raven Row arts centre was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2011.

Biography She was born in 1964 in Halifax and studied art at the Newcastle Polytechnic. She now works and lives in London while researching at Central Saint Martins and has exhibited internationally in cities such as New York, Venice and Basel.

Work Hilary Lloyd's work is derived from her observation of people, objects, and spaces. She says that her work does not need to be understood, and that she often does not understand it herself. She purposefully films people who are aware that they are being filmed and act accordingly. This allows for an element of personification in her work mimicking a self portrait. All of her work illustrates her motif as isolated. Sometimes her compositions seem as if they were posed, and some of her other works look like she was at a great distance observing and recording. Her work is entangled with the idea of repetitive movement and minimal materiality. Lloyd's video instillations are made to be continuous with the intention of the start and end of the work being conditional upon the viewer. Lloyd does not consider herself to be a filmmaker, rather an artist who uses film as a tool to create art. The equipment that has been used to display her images include: monitors, projectors, stands, and cabling. Lloyd prefers to use versatile technological equipment in her work for both aesthetic purposes and convenience. During the coronavirus lockdown in May 2020 gallerist Sadie Coles curated a mixed exhibition online which included Lloyd’s 1999 video titled Rich.

Exhibitions

Car Park, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2019) Theatre, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea (2017) Awful Girls, Dorich House Museum, London (2017) Woodall, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2017) Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2016) Robot, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2015) Balfour, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2015) Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2012) Sadie Coles HQ, London (2011) Artists Space, New York (2011) The Turner Prize (2011) Raven Row, London (2010) Tramway, Glasgow (2009) Le Consortium, Dijon (2009) Studio #2, Frieze Art Fair, London (2009) Sadie Coles HQ, London (2008) Films, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2008) Kunstverein München, München (2006)