Roger Hiorns | HIGHER ATLAS

Roger Hiorns (b. 1978 in Birmingham) is a British artist and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2009. He attended the Bournville College of Art from 1991 to 1993, and Goldsmiths College in London from 1993 to 1996. He lives in London.
An artist and writer who remains formless in terms of an identifiable set of motives and method. His works maintain an inconsistent level of identification to what has been made before. He uses materials and convolutions to affect transformations on found objects, social encounters and urban situations. Fictional scenarios are made real, Fire emerges from storm drains, perfume permeates metal surfaces, and crystals colonise industrial objects, naked youths contemplate fire, a clear plastic object becomes the focus of prayer, a boys choir play dead. In his encouragement of the viewing public to share the same subjective encounter, he created an installation in South London where he materially claimed an entire ex-council flat, growing within it an industrialized scale of copper sulphate crystals. 75,000 litres of solution were pumped into the social housing council flat to create a crystalline growth on the walls, floor, ceiling and bath of this abandoned dwelling. The project, called Seizure, was produced by Artangel.

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