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Miranda Hill

Miranda is an independent curator, writer and researcher based between the UK and Germany. She has worked on a variety of projects at varying scales that have involved hosting, writing, researching, curating, building, and designing.

My work revolves around the concept of postnature and explores how approaches to the study of human-altered environments can inform contemporary projects to deepen
our understanding of life’s interconnectedness. I do this through practices that nurture care, curiosity, encounters, and collective sharing.

I am interested in the mediation and construction of publics - particularly peripheral and fluid environments where knowledge and space are collectively and continually
redefined. I have worked with locally sourced materials such as earth and clay on building-based projects, developed performance programmes addressing wetland
conservation, and co-curated exhibitions focused on water and saltmarsh ecosystems.

Miranda is Associate Curator at Art Gene where her work sits across site-specific installations, public art, exhibitions, and events with a focus on sustainability, heritage, place,
and community. She has worked with artists across commercial, public and independent sectors to help realise their ideas. She studied History of Art at the University of Manchester and completed her Masters in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art.

For enquiries and collaborations please get in touch:

mirandaflorencehill@outlook.com
+44 7907099600

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2025/26
Remember Nature: Intra-actions
Deluge exhibition
Moonscreen

2024
Transitional Botijos
Narcissus Dreams
Lost Shops

2022/2023
Mud Club
Ecologies of Care: Rethinking Wetlands
Pidgin, Royal College of Art

Ecologies of Care: Rethinking wetlands
2023

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Ecologies of Care was a research and development project, and a platform for co-learning, collaborative inquiry and creative practice within Walthamstow Wetlands. The ambition was to deepen understanding of the wetland environment and to foster more reciprocal relationships between all ecologies. It challenged dualistic frameworks that position humans as separate from, and superior to, the natural world.

The proposal outlined a four-day programme of collective, transdisciplinary engagements in the Wetlands. Activities included workshops, performances, discussions, and collective listening and recording sessions, designed to encourage dialogue surrounding wetland conservation and its inhabitants. The programme looked at the different ways in communities might be reimagined to include all ecologies and how we can redefine societal notions of care beyond anthropocentric models.

The programme was part of a wider initiative aimed to co design and construct an experimental laboratory within the wetlands. The envisioned structure functioned as a space where humans and nature can coexist in a symbiotic relationship.

Through cultural and educational activities, the programme imagined alternative approaches to community building and collective care for the Wetlands inhabitants. Proposed activities included performance and moving image works exploring bodily relationships and folk histories embedded in wetland environments, collective building, storytelling, sonic walks and research based workshops engaging with the wetlands' water inhabitants.

The accompanying research paper situated the project within theoretical frameworks of care, curatorial practice, and situated learning, drawing on post-feminist and Anthropocene thinking and discourse. It proposed the creation of fluid spaces that prioritise knowledge exchange, experimentation, and more ethical ways of relating across ecologies.