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Congratulations to Sue Hill, our Woman of the Month for January. This month we celebrate Sue Hill. Theatre-maker, gardener, writer, storyteller, mayven, maker of giants/goddesses/creatures out of mud, sticks and plants, Cornishwoman Sue has travelled the world, making
theatre in unlikely places with Kneehigh and WildWorks, from the Green
Line in Nicosia to Kensington Palace, via Soweto and Scilly. With her
brother, Pete Hill, she has made many large scale earth/plant sculptures
including the Mudmaid and Giant at Heligan, Ardhi in the Rift Valley in
Kenya, Thousand-Mile-Eye in Hong Kong and Eve at Eden. She was
Artistic Director of the Eden Project for seven years. She is currently
working on new Eden Projects planned for Dundee, Morecambe and Qingdao
and researching the extraordinary adventures of Clara Vyvyan. She is an
Honorary Fellow of Falmouth University, a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh
(bardic name Gwriores a Gewri, ‘Maker of Giants’), Chair of her local
Allotment Society and a Trustee of the Gardeners’ House project in
Penzance. Her hometown is Redruth. What do you consider your greatest achievement? Helping to grow new forms of socially and environmentally engaged theatre with Kneehigh and then WildWorks. Creating large figurative artworks with my brother that became icons for the places and people we made them with. Curating the interpretation and tone-of-voice for the Eden Project. Guarding my freedoms and independence, resisting societal pressures to behave, be quiet, be a mother, settle, ‘get a proper job’ What motivates you to do what you do? Restless curiosity. The questions -‘What happens if….? I wonder if I can…? Every single thing we do has impacts, so make them positive rather than negative. I try to use what agency I have and put more joy into the world.
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