Miranda Florence Hill is a curator and maker from London, currently based in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Informed by her research, Miranda seeks to encourage meaningful engagement with the global ecological crisis through place-based, experimental approaches that prioritise transdisciplinary exchange. Drawing on post-natural thinking and feminist theory, her process aims to create space for reconceptualising dualities – such as nature and industry, visible and invisible - and to foster greater care for the ecologies we inhabit.
Miranda has worked with locally sourced materials such as earth and clay for building projects, developed performance programmes to highlight wetland conservation, and co-curated exhibitions on themes such as water and saltmarsh ecosystems. She is Programme Associate at Art Gene, where she produces projects focused on sustainability, heritage, place, and community through site-specific installations, public art, and events.
In addition to her role at Art Gene, Miranda develops independent projects including Mud Club, a live collaborative performance event. For ten years she's collaborated with artists in the commercial and public art sectors to bring their ideas to life. Miranda holds a BA Art History from the University of Manchester and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art.
I am interested in applying post-natural thinking - the study of human-altered organisms - to contemporary projects in order to deepen our understanding of life’s interconnectedness. My practice explores how culture can reshape our understanding, care for, and relationship with the natural world. I explore this through placemaking, situated learning, and transdisciplinary exchange, emphasising ecological care in community building. My interest in the mediation and construction of publics is further explored through the notion of site and materiality, such as water.
2025
Team: Cella Collective, Public House
Making, Research
2025
Art Gene. Art Walk Projects
Curation
2024
Collaborators: Taller M
Making
2023
Team: Annabel Miller, Kun Sun, Michela Prencipe, Yizhi Zhang, Wenxi Liao
Collaborators: Beatrix Pang, Divya Sharma, Yu-Ting Chung
Curation