Two Women In A Car park
This exhibition looks at mothers and sons and their relationships to each other through the media of written texts by writer Selima Hill and outdoor prints of original artwork by local artist Moby Hill.
Exhibition now showing at Riverside Art Space, Sidmouth
Prize winning poet Selima Hill, grew up in Dorset in a family of painters. Awarded the first Kings Gold Medal for poetry in 2025, she enjoys collaborating with other artists - a sculptor, a composer and a dance company are recent examples. She has worked in hospitals, prisons, schools, universities and a monastery as a keen supporter of the value of the arts in the community.
"Two Women in a Car Park" addresses two of Selima’s favourite subjects: mothers and sons and is loosely based on the conversations between two women in a carpark talking about their sons.
Selima’s voice is unique in contemporary British poetry, eclectic, humorous and surprising, side by side with her son Moby’s artwork, heightening both the absurd and mundane with colour and darkness – together evoking a depth of emotion that can catch you.
Moby Hill lives and works near Axminster, East Devon and trained at The Camberwell School of Art. He continues his father’s legacy of draughtmanship and bold painting. Here, his visual interpretation using the poem titles is in biro and posca pens.
This exhibition presents a selection of the full collection of images and text which are brought together in a new book “Two Women in A Car Park” by Selima Hill with artwork by Moby Hill, published by South West independent publisher Guillemot Press and available from www.guillemotpress.co.uk
Posca Pen & Poetry Workshop With Moby Hill
We are delighted to be running four workshops in April with Moby to coincide with our Two Women In A Car Park exhibition
from Sidmouth's brand new Printmakers Studio.
Small, playful workshops - each for 8 people, to experiment with posca pens and biros responding to poetry by Selima Hill. No experience necessary.
Venue: Print Makers Studio, No.8 Church St. Sidmouth
- Wednesday 15th April 10am to 12.30pm Ages 14 to 25
- Wednesday 15th April 2pm to 4.30pm ages 26+
- Saturday 18th April 10am - 12.30pm ages 26+
- Saturday 18th April 2pm to 4.30pm Ages 14 to 25
Ticket Prices: Ages 14 to 25s £10, Ages 25 and over £15.
We are committed to making art accessible to all. If funds are limited please email us at info@sidmouthart.org
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View Two Women In A Car Park digital exhibition here...
Selima Hill
Writer and PoetSelima Hill (b.1945) is an award winning contemporary poet, winning the King's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2025 and was shortlisted for the T.S.Eliot Prize and winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award, Cholmondeley Award among others. She has lived in Dorset for the last 40 years and holds a number of Writing Fellowships. Two Women In A Car Park is published by Guillemot Press.
Moby Hill
ArtistLiving and working near Axminster, East Devon, Moby comes from a family of artists, designers and poets. His work has an emotional depth and is powerful, unconventional and draws you in. He works in a variety of mediums including paints, biro and posca pens. Moby trained as a fine artist at The Camberwell School of Art and his work has been published in a number of books by poet Selima Hill.