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Born in West Sussex, UK; currently working between South-East London, and Buckinghamshire. ​

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Bowen-Hill's work explores memory, sanctioned (versus unsanctioned) voices, multi-generational history, and how experience is stored in the body. We all have markings of physical trauma, but also experience more abstract things. The ‘thingness’ of our bodies can act as an anchor to trace those less tangible things. Memory is always in flux - it develops with time. Her work is mixed-media drawing and writing, in part as a reflection of this. That there is no singular perspective. Multi-media allows room for contradictions; that whilst everything in life is constantly shifting, we can also be weighed down by things that happened before we were born. 

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After graduating from her BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, she was awarded the Tooth Travel Scholarship - funding to travel to research her art practice. Bowen-Hill spent the year travelling around Europe to the remaining charnel houses (where human remains are kept, usually next to churches). Morbid as it may sound, it isn’t. They’re repositories of social history, memory, changing attitudes and perspectives. The bodies are often used to narrate, spell out warnings, the anonymous given identity, the dead as pillars of community. Decorative buildings of bone and mortar, or thousands of bodies in disorder piles scattered and forgotten. Regardless of their origins, they’ve survived through generations of people choosing to preserve, to nurture, to help and continue. To care.

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