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 a visual artist making environmentally engaged work through workshops, walking and 16mm video. His process is to learn through community engagement, with an interest in how rivers and birds can be ways into discussing place, belonging, recovery and care. Working closely with conservationists, hospitals and children, his practice based research explores the gathering of gestures in relation to care, caring as an action of the hands and how they mend, hold, recover and let go of matter. These gestures are held in 16mm video, choreography, text, photography and textile binding. His work has been shown most recently 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, commissions for Kettle's Yard, Tate Exchange and Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. 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.