Through his project Ordinary, Hill creates portrait paintings as vignettes of people frequently seen through the lens of diagnoses or social marginalisation, reclaiming their stories from reductive narratives. His work uses the visual language of 17th-century genre painting, translating classical techniques into digital media to assert a contemporary social and moral framework, representing marginalised people with dignity and depth.

Subjects are co-authors of their representation, with agency embedded in the creation and reception of each portrait – so the finished pieces reflect lived experience rather than imposed interpretation. Hill exposes the power dynamics historically encoded in portraiture while creating a space where dignity is a default, not a reward.

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