Author: Suzanne Conboy-Hill

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Some things are bigger than us

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Original painting animated in MotionLeap and PowerDirector to form the augmented reality layer. Here’s the painting – download the Artivive app and give it a go! This is an artefact detected by bio-marker search looking for trace materials following historical observation of a planetary system in the region. It was automatically retrieved and delivered to an inspection plate in the isolation lab. Initial inspection suggests it is a construction, non-organic in itself but with traces. There are signs of critical damage. Re-aligning the inspection plate and boosting magnification shows there are protrusions that bear comparison with our own long range … Continue reading Some things are bigger than us

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New commission

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This is a return gig with a poetry anthology, and I was given three poems to choose from. The one I went for is about urban decay and the awfulness of what’s left of industry, but ends with wildlife, trees and flowers taking over the area. November 11th and we’re a few days on with a hiatus due to an RSI (repetitive strain injury) in my left arm. Totally desk layout related but of course it affects everything I would normally do with my dominant hand or even with both hands, including painting and posting updates. Today it feels a … Continue reading New commission

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Temporary home for coursework

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

10th April 2023. Drawing on Cixin Liu’s reference to van Gogh, string theory, and the reduction of the solar system to two dimensions (Death’s End: Three Body Problem series audio book 2018), this is (hopefully) going to be an exploration of Van Gogh’s approach to a cosmology he could never have seen and, for the latter part, doesn’t actually exist. It’s also in oils which I found in the bottom drawer of a stack. Bit of a first for me. Liu devotes an entire chapter to the dispassionate description of the process of becoming two dimensional. With no drama at … Continue reading Temporary home for coursework

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Women victims of domestic violence: a series of pastel paintings

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

A3 pastel paintings made as part of a series about the effects of repeated concussions (CTE – chronic traumatic encephalopathy) on brain function. Recognised in sports such as rugby and football where concussion time-out is now mandatory, reluctantly in boxing, and barely at all in women victims of domestic violence who have no time-out and no referees to intervene. SCH 2023 Continue reading Women victims of domestic violence: a series of pastel paintings

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If you can’t find a gallery that fits …

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

You just have to build your own! The problem with augmented art is it needs connectivity or it isn’t going to be augmented, and while I make the paintings as standalone as possible, I add the AR as a way for it to speak in a different voice. So it’s a bit like turning up to a ‘do’ in your best frock but without the accessories. Sort of. Locally, there’s barely a phone signal anywhere, and finding a venue with – ok just finding a venue and never mind one with wifi – is well nigh impossible. Solution? A virtual … Continue reading If you can’t find a gallery that fits …