Born Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
Contact: joshua.bilton@googlemail.com
2008 - 2010 MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London
2004 - 2007 BA (Hons) Photography, London College of Communication, London
Joshua Bilton is visual artist making socially engaged artwork through workshops and walking. His process is to learn through communities and ecology, often working with a community group for a period of one to two years in response to an environment. During the past five years, he has been researching how his socially engaged practice can help communities reflect on environmental care and self-care through nature, conservation and animism. Within his work, Joshua is interested in creating social sculptures and participatory processes that make a collective space for gathering, healing, meditation, quietness and lament.
During the last two years the output of Bilton’s work has taken the form of workshops, performance, 16mm film and choreography. These immersive works have been shown as part of a one-year residency at St George’s Hospital, a six month residency at the Wellcome Collection, a two-year residency at the Canal and River Trust, a series of commissions for Kettle’s Yard and research workshops at Tate Exchange.
He is currently an Honorary Artist at Cambridge University Hospitals; Artist in residence at St George’s Hospital, Senior Core Tutor on The King’s Foundation programme; Associate Artist at Kettle’s Yard and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.