Gillian Hyland

Gillian Hyland creates supernatural staged images, presented as film stills or dramatic moments. Hyland’s unsettling mise-en-scene are full of sex and desire, sadness and nostalgia. Narratives that are psychologically evocative - at once sublimely theatrical yet poignant.
Like Richard Avedon and Guy Bourdin, the mix of fashion and art has challenged us to accept stylised new ideas of femininity and masculinity, innocence and sensuality. Hyland describes herself as an image maker and story teller. Her dramatic photographs are based on her own poems, and depict characters in human dramas and isolated emotional situations. Frozen in time, solitary and vulnerable moments are presented in glorious technicolor and timeless sets.

Awards
•  Royal Arts Prize, Winner, London, UK - 2016
•  Life Framer Prize, “A World of Cultures”, UK - 2016
•  Art Prize CBN Finalist, Italy, 2015
•  NOA, Ward Thomas Photography Award, UK -2015
•  Magenta Flash Forward, UK Winner, Canada - 2015
•  AX3 – American Aperture Awards, Winner, USA - 2015
•  La Quatrieme Image, Winner, France - 2015
•  PDN Curator Awards, Winner, NYC, USA - 2014
•  Gallery Photographica - Gold Award, USA - 2014
•  Ariano International Film Festival, Winner, Italy - 2014
•  North Valley Art League - Gold Medal, USA - 2014
•  Moscow International Foto, 1st prize, Russia - 2014 


Exhibitions:

• Art Miami, Aqua Fair, Bruno Massa Gallery, USA - 2016

• Affordable Art Fair NY, Bruno Massa Gallery, USA - 2016

• Royal Arts Prize, ROA Gallery, London, UK - 2016

• Cynthia Corbet Gallery Summer Exhibition, UK - 2016 

• Art Hamptons, Bruno Massa Gallery, NY USA - 2016

• The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London, UK - 2016

• Affordable Art Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, UK - 2016 

• Look At Me Exhibition, Casa Toesca, Turin, Italy - 2016

• London Art Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, UK - 2016 

• Affordable Art Fair, Bruno Massa Gallery, Italy - 2016

• National Open Art, RCA, London, UK - 2015

• Flux Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, UK - 2015 
• 125 LIVE Exhibition, 125Live Gallery, London, UK - 2015 
• Royal Photographic Society, Exhibition 158, UK - 2015

• ROA Gallery, The Way Of Art VII Edition, UK - 2015

• NVAL International Show, California, USA - 2015
• Affordable Art Fair, Corbett Gallery, London UK - 2015

• The Photography Show, UK - 2015 

• Corbett Gallery Summer Exhibition, London, UK - 2015 

• ROA Gallery, EGOS X Exhibition, London UK - 2015 

• London Art Fair, Corbett Gallery, London UK - 2015

• Premio Combat Art Prize, Livorno, Italy - 2015

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