James Hillman

He grew up in the rural areas of Gloucestershire, England. From 2010 to 2015, he worked for several art foundries, including Pangolin Editions in Gloucestershire, Bronze Age, and Arch Bronze in London. During this period, he also served as the manager of the artist commune The Territory in Paris, supervised and worked on the restoration of the stone walls of a medieval French castle in Carcassonne, and took part in a Templar treasure-hunting expedition with a group of cave explorers.

In 2015, he moved to Italy, to Isola del Liri (Frosinone), where he also founded a collaborative and artisanal art foundry. Hillman’s artistic research emerges from manual craft practices and industrial mechanized production processes. This often results in the generation of images that blur classical painting languages with industrial and digital aesthetics, requiring specially built machines in the studio for their realization.

Since 2014, Hillman has exhibited internationally with LAMB Arts in London and in shows including: Impermanent Indelible, 2015, Miami; Untitled, 2017, São Paulo, Brazil; Soft Furnishing, 2019; and in Italy from 2018: Cult Rise, Museo Orto Botanico di Roma, Rome, 2018; Vivere di paesaggio, APALAZZO Gallery, Brescia, 2021; Finestra Episodio VI, Spazio Taverna, Rome, 2021. In addition to his artistic work, he forges custom artist doors and fittings in his foundry.