Hazel Brill works across film, sound, animation, text, sculpture, and installation, conjuring a shiny utopian future which has turned messy and grotesque. Inspired by intricate set designs and depictions of laboratories from horror films, the artist is interested in gothic horror fiction as a device to deal with fears around transformative technologies, where the lines between the living and the non-living are blurred, posing an existential threat.
Hazel Brill (b. 1991, London, UK) lives and works in London and Newcastle UK. Brill is currently studying for her PhD at Newcastle University, and received her MFA in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Art London (2017). Selected solo presentations include: Amber, Workplace, London (2024); Pincer, Workplace Foundation, Newcastle (2023); Pup & Blubber, Block 336, Brixton (2019); Shonisaurus Popularis, Turf Projects (2018). Group exhibitions include: life-bestowing cadaverous soooooooooooooooooooot, CCA Glasgow (2024); Night Station, Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); Greetings, NWR Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany (2021); A Commitment, MIT film screening, USA (2021); Realm, Collaborative installation, Southwark Park Galleries, London (2019); I Made a Show For You, Artagon III Awards Exhibition, Artagon, Paris (2017). Awards and fellowships include: Fellow at Film London Artist Moving Image Network (2019-2020); Boise Travel Scholarship Award (2017); Connect 2016 Mentor Award with Bedwyr Williams (2016); The Hatton Art Prize (2014).
