Amy Hilton

Amy Hilton (b.1986, UK) graduated with dual honours in English and Comparative Literature and Theatre from Goldsmiths College, University of London. In January 2008, she settled in the French Alps to reconnect with nature - where her artistic aspirations developed over the seasons spent among the valleys and mountaintops. Today, she lives and works in Paris.

According to the artist, everything in the universe, from the subdivisions of physical matter to higher worlds, co-exists and retains a connection. This notion of ‘connection’ as well as the conjunction of ‘the parts and the whole’ is a concept that has accompanied Hilton along her academic research and artistic practice. She uses a variety of subjects and media to address and question the notions of totality and fragmentation, to try to open up being and phenomena, which far from existing only independently and distinctly, according to her, find their sense in their relationship, and even more in their relationship to nature. This “deeper ecology”, to use the artist’s own words, highlights the power of physiological and mythical links and cycles.

Through her work she has been able to broaden her fascination with esoteric ideologies and the belief that life simultaneously subsists in two parallel dimensions: the ‘physical body’ and the psychological, emotional, spiritual, non-physical ‘subtle body’. Hilton’s sensitivity to that which is both visible and invisible, both material and spiritual emphasizes what is at the core of her practice: a quest to achieve a deeper understanding of unity, of the layers of metaphysical meaning that shape our existence, of the sacred unity of self and cosmos.