Birds of a Feather: Holly Hill

frontdesk8455
Mar 18
1 min read

Updated: Apr 10

Upstairs Artspace is proud to present Birds of a Feather, a group exhibition on view from April 19 through May 29, 2026.

Holly Hill is a studio artist and educator based in the mountains of North Carolina with a professional background in costume design and textile fabrication. Her interdisciplinary practice integrates ceramics, fiber, drawing, and found materials to explore themes of labor and bodily autonomy. Moreover, her work asserts the quiet power of craft as a form of resistance.

Hill is currently an MFA candidate at Western Carolina University and will complete her degree in May 2026.

Artist Statement:

My work starts with a simple belief: making is a way of thinking and telling stories. I work across sculpture, textiles, ceramics, and digital drawing, using repetition, process, and materials to hold lived experience. I’m drawn to surfaces, stitching, beading, layering, wear, and repair, because that’s where time, labor, and memory quietly build up.

A central part of my practice is a series of sculptural figures I call Herms. Built slowly from textiles, paper, ceramics, wire, glass, and found materials, they act more like witnesses than objects, holding care, vulnerability, and strength. Across all of this work, I’m interested in how knowledge lives in the hand, and how making itself becomes an act of attention, resistance, and care.

Socials: @hollyannhill1

Website: holly@hollyannhill.com