The Gilbert Bayes Award 2024 Winners’ Exhibition
Excerpt from essay by Clemency Cooke of Cooke Latham Gallery February 2025
In two unexpected locations within Dora House hang the contour hugging
works of Laura Hills. Site-specific, they are made of wax, frames, tissue
paper and sewing patterns. These beguiling materials nod perhaps
to the works of Heidi Bucher, however their structure reveals Hills as
both a musician and composer. There is a rhythm and fluency to the
compositions; a musical preoccupation with infinite possible arrangements
emerging from basic units. The ghosts of the sewing patterns from which
they are made have the feel of architectural or industrial blueprints,
underlining the artist’s preoccupation with space; her desire to play with
the perception, orientation and experience of the viewer.