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
I am a visual artist making socially engaged artwork through workshops, performance and mixed media. My process is to learn through communities and nature, often working with a community group for a period of one to two years in response to a landscape or environment. Most recently this has been through residencies at Kettle’s Yard and St George’s Hospital, where my practice based research has been looking into how gesture and ceremony can be used to reflect on environmental and self care, healing and loss. During the last five years the output of my residencies has developed into performative workshops, video and sound works and photography that often involve gesture, ceramics and ritual. 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 commission for Kettle’s Yard and a series of research workshops at Tate Exchange.
I am currently an Honorary Artist at Cambridge University Hospitals. Senior Core Tutor on The King’s Foundation programme. Associate Artist at Kettle’s Yard and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. Visiting Practitioner at the London College of Communication on the BA (Hons) Photography programme and the BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Cultures.