Roger Hiorns
Artist, Visual Artist
1975 –
Who is Roger Hiorns?
Roger Hiorns is a British artist. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2009.
Hiorns was born in Birmingham. He attended the Bournville College of Art from 1991 to 1993, and Goldsmiths, University of London in London from 1993 to 1996. He lives in London.
He uses materials and convolutions to affect transformations on found objects, social encounters and urban situations. Fictional scenarios are made real, Fire emerges from storm drains, perfume permeates metal surfaces, and crystals colonise industrial objects, naked youths contemplate fire, a clear plastic object becomes the focus of prayer, a boys choir play dead, a proposal to bury a passenger jet plane. In 2008 he created an installation in South London where he materially claimed an entire ex-council flat, growing within it an industrialized scale of copper sulphate crystals. 75,000 litres of solution were pumped into the council flat to create a crystalline growth on the walls, floor, ceiling and bath of this abandoned dwelling. The project was called Seizure and was produced by Artangel.
In 2011, Hiorns exhibited in 'British Art Show 7' at The Hayward Gallery, London. He is represented by Corvi-Mora, London.
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- Born
- 1975
Birmingham - Also known as
- Хайорнс, Роджер
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- Bournville Centre for Visual Arts
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on July 23, 2013
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