About

Sian Gledhill is an artist whose work is closely connected with place and history. Through performance and film, she conducts playful interventions, opening up new dialogues with familiar material or forgotten landmarks.

She has had a long been interested in social history and increasingly obsolete and redundant forms of communication – the concrete Sound Mirrors that once safeguarded the Kent Coast, found postcards evoking nostalgia for seemingly ordinary places or the enigmatic language of BBC Radio 4’s broadcasting. Her work seeks to reanimate these neglected monuments, recreate ephemeral moments to form new narratives and associations.

Fascinated with the rapport between performance and photography, she is interested in how the still frame can be used to stage a re-encountering of the familiar. Photography empowers the most fleeting of moments, to create an illusion of weight and permanence, rendering the most familiar everyday objects into incongruous monolithic architecture.

Her current work continues to explore themes with our connection with place and history but very much grounded in a photography. She has started working with photographs on her phone, exploring the way in which fleeting moments, that seen in isolation seem completely unrelated, but when put side by side begin to have a conversation with each other. Giving them a sense of purpose and take on a transformative process as physical objects when printed and woven together.

A graduate from the Royal College of Art, London, she continues her own practise alongside being a freelance Artist Educator and Lecturer.