ABOUT THE ARTIST
Oliver Hill is a New Zealand artist who has studied at the Dunedin School of Art. Throughout Hill’s life, great interest has been found in modifying different objects, from anything electronic to anything mechanical. He would modify or re-engineer them to the point of being far more unreliable than once before, but far more exciting for him to experience personally.
This is where Hill’s painting has stemmed from. Manipulating the world around him in visual form to where the paintings he creates are an expression of the world as we know it, portrayed in an abstract vibrant form. From Hill’s perspective, this is a means of re-engineering in itself.
Hill has always questioned why he paints, however throughout his time at art school, he has gained a deeper understanding of what this question means although he may never fully understand the answer. Through careful consideration, Hill has come to realise that a primary reason as to why he paints, is to progress self exploration and this question of ‘why’. In a sense, he paints in order to figure out why he paints.
