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January 2025
Sue Hill - Theatre-maker, gardener, writer, storyteller, mayven, maker of giants/goddesses/creatures out of mud, sticks and plants, Cornishwoman
This month we celebrate Sue Hill. 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.
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Women in Cornwall
Women In Cornwall
Women in Cornwall is an archive documenting the lives and achievements of women in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Women have made significant contributions to this region and we aim to foreground their stories, moving women from the margins of history to the centre.
The archive currently contains over 600 biographical profiles and lists over 1000 works by women from the region.
Women in Cornwall is a unique collaborative space. The site is managed and maintained by a small team of volunteer editors, and the archive contains contributions from historians, researchers, and enthusiasts — people from all walks of life. Anyone is free to suggest additions to the archive.
The project was initiated by the researcher Melissa Hardie-Budden, who also provided the original set of research. It is a core project of The Hypatia Trust, a Cornish charity committed to documenting and uplifting women’s achievements, past and present.
Find out more here