Hilary Prosser is an artist and anthropologist making work that explores our relationship to the environment through materials, among her many projects she has conducted a sensory ethnography of the Thames Foreshore and led workshops demonstrating how we use materials as a way of ‘thinking through things’.
Selected Projects
2019 – Creative Practitioner – Arts Partnership Surrey – devising a smartphone/social media art project with young people
2018 – Workshop Facilitator – Older Men on the Margins – University of Bristol and Age UK
2018 – Researcher and interviewer, LONDON’S LOST WATERWAYS
oral history/social engagement project directed by the Thames Discovery Programme.supported by funding from City Bridge Trust
Feb 2018 – How Do I Look? live art residency at Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects in Hackney
2017 – ‘kintsugi as self-repair’ presentation of an academic paper and workshops at St Christopher’s Hospice, London
2017 – Artist-in-residence Time & Talents, Rotherhithe, London – creating artworks and running art classes and workshops with local residents
2016 – Researcher and Ethnographer, investigating the future of food and commensuality – UCL research project for NESTA
2016 – Researcher and Ethnographer, LIFE AFLOAT
HLF project directed by the Thames Festival Trust. Researching the historic origins and present-day experience of houseboat living on the river Thames in central London
2015 – Contributor – Women in Clothes – collaborative book ‘part advice manual, part anthropological study, part feminist document’ New York Times Book review
2012 – Performer – Matrimonial Rituals, Gender Studies and False Hair – video project led by Joanne Wardrop
the following is an excerpt from a magazine review of an exhibition held during an artist-residency in Budapest – English translation by a Hungarian colleague:
English girl toughened by salty air of Brighton, drifted into Trabant-smoked streets of Budapest. She sat into low-flying Bakelite-tiled Budapest; she was flying as a black butterfly between the battered houses. Her drawings, like magazine illustrations of the thirties, travel drafts about the magic. Metaphors, jotted down on mustard-stained grease-proof paper; cooked-sausage-sketches. Espresso bar tables, Dobos-cake crumbs on them, are sweeped into sketchbooks
2000 – Curator ‘Another View’: touring photographic exhibition featuring work by several artists, opened at the Eden Project, Cornwall, toured multiple venues over 6-year period
1992 – Artist-in-residence: Magyar Foiskola Iparmuveszeti, Hungarian school of Art & Design, Budapest
1991 – Artist-in-residence: Falmer Upper School, Brighton
1990 – Competition Winner: Marley Floors for Conquest Hospital, Hastings, designs to inspire interaction and play in children’s area
1990 – Artist-in-residence: Friends of the Earth Brighton
1989 – Artist-in-residence: Romanian Orphanage in Bucharest
