John Hilliard (artist)
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John Hilliard, is an English
United Kingdom
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 artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

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Hilliard studied at Lancaster College of Art and St Martins School of Art, London
London
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. He lives and works in London
London
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. Previously, Professor, Head of Graduate Fine Art Media, Director of Studies, Graduate Programmes, Graduate Tutor at the Slade School of Fine Art
Slade School of Fine Art
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, University College London
University College London
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An ongoing body of work addresses the specificity of photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

 as a medium: its uncertainty as a representational device and its status within the visual arts, especially in relation to painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

, cinema
Film
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 and commercial photography.

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