ALI HOBBS

UK BASEd filmmaker and arist

2026 Ali completed a three-month studio residency as part of Ilkley Arts and the international Air, Sea and Soil residency in Orkney, Scotland, where she developed new work exploring the relationship between sound and place as part of her ongoing practice, which centres on atmosphere, duration, and embodied experience.

She has recently been awarded funding from Arts Council England to develop a new work in collaboration with internationally acclaimed artist Ann Hamilton and the Applied Psychoacoustics Laboratory at University of Huddersfield.

  • Ali’s practice explores atmosphere as lived experience. Working across moving image, sound and material processes she develops work through extended periods of immersion where duration and presence become the means through which ideas emerge.

    Her projects often arrive through sustained acts of making, early work included abstract animations projected across the electric windows of Lux Gallery and into Hoxton Square, London.

    This enquiry evolved into durational work, The Long Walk and To Begin, which explore the relationship between place and embodied experience and exhibited internationally in public spaces, including Trafalgar Square, the Eden Project, Glastonbury Festival, Grand Central Station, Union Station, the Cathedral of St John the Divine, and on five large outdoor screens across five UK cities.

    Alongside her own practice, Ali has undertaken short film commissions, and collaborates with other artists to create works that extend and interpret their practices.

    These films often sit between documentation and artistic response, retaining her focus on presence and observation while responding to the distinct language of each collaboration.

    Alongside her artistic practice, Ali has built a career in broadcast television and the delivery of ambitious creative film projects across contemporary art, museums and publicly funded programmes. She has also produced films for brands, heritage organisations and educational programmes.

    Committed to widening access to the broadcast industry and the arts, Ali is a mentor and regularly speaks at schools and colleges. She has taught at Bedford College of Art, Leeds Beckett University and Leeds Trinity University.

  • ali@alihobbs.com