Randy Hill

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Native Texan, graphic designer and musician Randy Hill, has been creating assemblage art (don't call it trash or junk) in one way or another since he was a child growing up on a farm in central Texas. "I always looked forward to Saturday mornings, because my father would take my brother and I to the town dump to get rid of our week's trash. To me it was a gold mine of junk of every description and I would bring home choice castoffs and create cool things out of them. I didn't have any money, so I created things I dreamed up with stuff other people threw away."

Forty years of being steeped in Texan mythology and Tex-Mex culture has had a deep influence on Hill's work. "I'm a third generation Texan. My father ran a farm and a Tex-Mex beer joint down the road from Austin. I traveled the American southwest with a traveling tent revival at age 17 and moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland at age 18. My work can't help but be influenced by that kind of bizarre background."