Stephen Hilyard is a meticulous and inventive technician with a tendency to think his work into the ground. His eight large digitally manipulated landscape images titled Rapture of the Deep at Platform Gallery are something else again.
Shot in Iceland and reconfigured till what’s underwater becomes dry against the sky, the images feature the artist striking various poses associated with the grandiose sublime. He’s as tricky as ever, but this time his results move beyond craft into the inevitable.
I don’t quite understand what you’re trying to say here… he’s as tricky as ever but he moves beyond craft into the inevitable???
Hi Jack. He has a complicated process, but in his new work, that’s not what I thought about when looking at it.