Lot 399 - Susie Hamilton - Abbey
Acrylic on paper
2023
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
This auction is raising proceeds for The Hepatitis C Trust.
ARTIST INFO
About
I paint figures in wilderness—either a natural wilderness or a bleak, urban space such as superstore or shopping mall. My figures are set in challenging places and often blitzed by bursts of glaring light. Additionally, they are made more vulnerable by my ‘iconoclastic’ painting method. I enjoy the mutable and unpredictable nature of paint to make (and unmake) images. People in my paintings are frequently assaulted by stains and blots, they dissolve into acrylic fluidity or are turned into nameless shapes, so that both figure and figurative representation are destabilised. Metamorphosis, central to my work and to a new series based on Ovid’s poem, includes metamorphosis into abstraction through which identifiable images are turned into something unnamed, threatening and mysterious.
Education
1989-92 Byam Shaw School of Art. Dip. Fine Art; Graham Hamilton Drawing Prize.
1981 Birkbeck College, London University. BA English Literature, First Class Honours, awarded The George Smith Prize.
1987 Ph.D, ‘Negation, Play and Identity in Shakespeare.’
1968-72 St Martins School of Art. Dip. AD Fine Art.
Select Exhibitions/Awards
2022
Solo Contemporary, British Art Fair, Paul Stolper, Saatchi Gallery, London
‘Unbound’, Paul Stolper, London
2021
‘Ecstasy’, online Viewing Room, Paul Stolper, London
2020
C-19, online Viewing Room, Paul Stolper, London
2018
‘On Margate Sands’, book launch and exhibition, Paul Stolper, London
2016
‘In Atoms’, Paul Stolper, London
‘Glow’, Westminster Reference Library, London
2015
‘Here Comes Everybody’, St Paul’s Cathedral, London
Gallery Representation
Paul Stolper Gallery
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