About Me

Deborah Pill is a Sculptor, Painter and Photographer working in Oxford, UK. She grew up in Oxford near the Cowley Road and has lived and worked in the area for over 30 years

Employment
Deborah works as an Art Facilitator at Modern Art Oxford (MAO).

Volunteer
She also Volunteers at Abingdon and Witney College and has recently worked on a group curatorial project between Modern Art Oxford and Oxford Brookes called ‘Flow’. This interdisciplinary exhibition started pre-COVID, was curated throughout and resolved in an online Exhibition.

Practice
Her work explores aspects of place, memory and association held in objects and gesture. Her work that is largely self-reflective and emotive and draws on her life experience and female identity. Her work is both experimental and exploratory with a haptic approach. This ‘hands on’ approach allows for direct communication between the artist and her chosen materials.

Recent Work
Recent work has seen an investigation into mobility, barriers, memory and identity. Her sourced and chosen materials have been selected for their symbolic association. Materials such as latex reflect the bodily and corporeal; the metamorphosis that she herself has gone through are echoed within its materiality. It is within the choice of materials and her story telling that she reveals her fascination with the human experience that connects it to a wider audience.

Exhibitions
Brookes University – Surface, 2020 (Online)
Ovada, Oxford – The Great Divide, 2019
Cornerstone Arts Centre – Chromantics, 2019