Alcaston Gallery

Sean Hill

Australia

Hill’s multidisciplinary art practice draws from his Samoan heritage and his contemporary art background, merging the two together. His abstracted, graphic visual language appears as a high frequency channel of glitching colour and form; evoking flowers, refracted light, patterns on water, and the geometric motifs of Samoan siopo (tapa cloth, a traditional bark cloth from the Pacific Islands) and traditional Samoan tatau (tattoo). Hill explores the interplay of colours, forms, and dimensions as he seamlessly merges digital art with traditional painting methods. Recently, Hill has begun to translate his bold visual language into three-dimensional form, creating sculptural works from repurposed materials that transform frequency, energy, and sequences into tangible forms.