The human condition; how we fit in, how we relate to place, the things around us and how we manage the contingencies of our situation. With a first degree in Design and a Masters in Anthropology from UCL, Hilary Prosser works across disciplinary boundaries to ask questions about the ways we negotiate being in the world.

Hilary works with  people of all ages, from all walks of life, she excels at collaborative and socially engaged projects. Currently she is working with the University of Bristol on a research project investigating loneliness in rural areas and she is also engaged in a project with Arts Partnership Surrey developing an art project for young people with mental health issues

projects/exhibitions/awards and residencies

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

Feb 2018 – ‘How Do I Look?’ a month long live art residency at Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects in Hackney

2017:            ‘kintsugi as a form of self-repair’  workshop at St Christopher’s Hospice, London

2017:            Anthropological researcher on the Thames foreshore   working with volunteer archaeologists with the Thames Discovery Project

2017:            Artist-in-residence  Time & Talents, Rotherhithe, London – creating artwork and running art classes and workshops with local residents

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

2000:            Curator  ‘Another View’ : a touring photographic exhibition, 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

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2013: Bristol, Spike Print Studio: print works

2012: Margate, Pushing Print Festival – print works
2012: Bristol, Jamaica Street Artists Open Studios – print works
2012 Spike Print Studio:  – print works

2012: Haymarket Gallery London: Mail Art installation

2013  Bristol, Westbury Surgery: Print works

2012 Bristol, Wellspring Clinic: drawings and photographic work

2012 Bristol, Niche Gallery: photographic work

1992: Hungary, Budapest School of Art :  installation

the following is a review following 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