GALA HILLS
ARTIST
Gala Hills is an artist currently studying at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford.
Her work applies a multidisciplinary approach, using holistic influences that come both from experience and research. Gala comes from an outsider education, being taught at home in the English countryside, where underground raves are a response to boredom; much of her work relates to inherent human creativity and curiosity, and a desire to come together and create together as humans in response to a lack of external stimulus.
Currently she is working on a series of large animal inspired headpieces which relate to European paganism and repressed traditions, and performance art through hidden identity and a subversion of the everyday. Her influences range from 70s cult classic films to 60s Fluxus practices, and from 1990s rave culture back to 1890s Viennese Secession poster making. Komuna is an exciting space to push how Gala creates in response to and reflects the feeling of a collective.