Home Turf
June 5 – 28, 2008
In Towards a Philosophy of Nature, Robert P. Harrison suggests that, “precisely at the moment when we have overcome the earth and become unearthly in our modes of dwelling…we insist on our kinship with the animal world. We suffer these days from a new form of collective anxiety: species loneliness.” Through my photographs I aim to document the sadness, beauty and humor in these human-animal relationships and examine the ambiguous hierarchy between imposition and tenderness. The work reflects a conflicted dichotomy between the human desire to control nature and the intimacy and affection we afford our non-human counterparts
Nicole Jean Hill was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio and received a BFA in photography from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her photographs have been exhibited throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada and Australia, including Gallery 44 in Toronto, the Australia Centre for Photography in Sydney, and the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Hill has been an artist-in-residence at several arts organizations and universities including the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah and the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. She currently resides in Humboldt County, California, and is the chair of the Department of Art and Film at the California Polytechnic University- Humboldt. Her book Encampment, Wyoming: Selections from the Lora Webb Nichols Archive 1899-1948 was published by FW Books, Amsterdam and shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo Photo Book of the Year in 2021.