Quill Hyde is a Northwest-based artist and design engineer who combines technical innovation with traditional craftsmanship to create large-scale, interactive public artworks. Drawing on a lifetime of fabrication experience, they work with metal, wood, and fiber to create site-specific sculptures. Their practice explores the intricate relationships between the natural world and contemporary human culture, drawing inspiration from animal forms, storytelling, and respectful cross-cultural collaboration.
Holding degrees in physics and mechanical engineering from Reed College and Columbia University, Hyde integrates a lifetime of experience in fabrication, engineering, and project management. Bringing visions to reality in a cost effective and timely manner, they emphasize practical, long lasting and low maintenance solutions to artistic expression, with respectful use of materials and resources.
Ultimately, Hyde’s work aims to shift perspectives and inspire transformation, through joy, dialogue, and community participation.
To build art that connects people to nature, to bring our animal family into dialogues about the future.
To build art that encourages shifts in perspective, through playful and joyful interaction with public works of art.
To build art that is beautiful, as standalone objects, but that furthers understanding upon closer engagement.
To take advantage of the art to engage with youth, to share skills, and to build knowledge.
To build art that is respectful of the resources allocated, the environment in which it is placed - art that is cost effective, durable and easy to maintain.
To build art that both reflects and enhances the spirit of the host community, and builds on the unique opportunities that those communities present.