Sheila Hill (writer)
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Sheila Hill is an English artist, writer and theatremaker.[1]
Career
She was a columnist and feature writer for the Guardian newspaper, before focusing on theatre, and art installations.
A spinal injury, in her early 30s, removed her from normal life, but Atkinson Morley Hospital's intensive rehabilitation programme started to turn things around, despite the fact that regaining a functional level of strength took several years.
Sheila wrote about this period in a series of newspaper articles, and also in her theatre work, Crocodile Looking At Birds - selected as one of the Observer newspaper Arts Events of the Year.[2][3][4]
As an artist, she draws on real voices, transcribing and editing these into short, poetic testimonies, which she uses as her starting material.
Sheila also founded and curated Tabernacle Folk, a four-year, progressive, commissioning, international festival (2010-2013). This was voted Critics Choice Best Gig in London, by Time Out.[5][6]
In 2019, she was commissioned by Glyndebourne to create an autobiographical work about motherhood, performed by 100 women, grandmothers and children, for Brighton Festival, which she spoke about in features on BBC Radio 3 (In Tune) and Radio 4 (Woman's Hour).
Works
- Eye to Eye, The Dome, Brighton Festival, 2019[7][8]
- Him, Royal Festival Hall/Glasgow's Tramway/Birmingham Rep/Edinburgh Traverse, 2016[9][10][11]
- The Question Room, Science Museum, London, 2009
- I See Your Beating Heart, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, 2001
- Crocodile Looking At Birds, Lyric Hammersmith, London, 1995
- My Parents Never Talk To White People, ICA, London, 1994
- Check King Coal, Oval House, London, 1985
References
- ↑ "How I became an artist". British Council, Theatre and Dance. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
- ↑ "Crocodile Looking at Birds (1995)". ITV Film, BFI Archive. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
- ↑ Parry, Jann (31 December 1995). "A year in the Arts". Observer.
- ↑ Parry, Jann (28 May 1995). "Review". Observer.
- ↑ Critics' Choice Best Gig in London, Time Out, 29 March - 4 April 2012.
- ↑ "Eight new works commissioned for Tabernacle Folk Festival - The Wire". The Wire Magazine. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, Improviso, Chilly Gonzales, Howard Skempton, Sheila Hill". BBC. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Potty training, Going away with friends, Jude". BBC. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
- ↑ "Sheila Hill: HIM". Tramway. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
- ↑ "Guest Review: Him at the Southbank Centre". Exeunt Magazine. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
- ↑ "Him - A Gentle Triumph". HuffPost UK. 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
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