DrYvette Hamilton

Yvette Hamilton is an Australian interdisciplinary artist of Mauritian descent. She is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Sydney College of the Arts and has been a practicing artist for more than fifteen years.

Her research and expanded practice probes at the limits and expectations of representation within photography and aims to explore the ontological paradoxes inherent within the medium. This inquiry is underpinned by strong ties to material experimentation within the photographic medium from its past to present, and potential futures. Her work often focuses on the quest to use the photographic medium to see the unseen, to broach distance, explore the unknown, and to materialise the invisible.

Mostly working without a camera, her sparse compositions incorporate the role of chance whilst recording the passage of time and the influence of the atmosphere onto light sensitive surfaces. Recently her work has drawn on the shifting mountain atmosphere of her home environment on Dharug and Gundungurra lands (Blue Mountains, NSW), made within, and about, the mists, clouds, rain, sunlight, and the dark skies, moon, and starlight.

Her work has been shown in Australia and overseas in exhibitions at venues such as Pingyao International Festival of Photography, China; Lewisham Arthouse and Equivalent Behaviour Space, London; Perth Centre for Photography, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery. She has been a finalist in the Bowness Photography Award, Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize, Blake Prize, Josephine Ulrick & Winn Schubert Award, the Paramor Prize, the Fishers Ghost Art Prize, the Meroogal Women's Art Prize, and the Grace Cossington Smith Award.