Niki Hill
After a long career as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator, Hill decided to study at Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland from which she graduated with a BFA (Hons) in 2008. She majored in digital photography and lighting studio. Described as object-maker and photographer, Hill's images are paradoxical fashion accessories, sometimes made from fresh raw meat and fish, which are subverted into social commentary to challenge what we do as consumers. Her ideas are about fashion, desire and consumerism, and a realisation that the success of brand culture relies upon an emotional response. Hill's images attempt to disrupt the fantasy of the opulux item (the hand bag, the shoe) and instead reveal the discomforting truth that you can't buy "Happy ever after" and that a dream product may become a nightmare. Niki Hill has work in the James Wallace Art Trust collection.
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