Helena Hamilton

Helena Hamilton is an artist who works both visually and sonically. Her practice is informed by inquisitive exploration of interaction, reconciliation and negotiation between subject, object and environment. Themes of the everyday, simplicity and repetition are consistent throughout her works in a variety of media including sound, installation, drawing, interactive digital and performance.

Presence, phenomenological being and the relations between self and the world are the subject matter of her work. Often austere in aesthetic and concept, Hamilton’s work seeks authenticity in her negotiations through methodical and uncompromising simplicity. This reveals itself through effects of liveness and interactivity. She uses methods of repetition as a means to materialise variable and idiosyncratic effects, with performativity and embodied action being paramount to this process.

MA Sonic Arts (2014), BA Honours degree in Fine Art (2009)

Recent solo exhibitions include: 'Order, Effect', Art Centre Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan (2016); 'The Weight Of My Soul Keeps Ringing In My Ears', The Golden Thread Gallery Project Space, Belfast, NI. (2013); 'Untitled (Hope)', Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Belfast, NI (2013). Recent group exhibitions include: 'The Headless City', TULCA, Galway, Ireland (2016);' The Making', The Agency Gallery, London, England (2015/16); 'Sonorities' festival of Contemporary Music, Goldsmiths University of London, England (2015); 'Reassemble for Purpose', Platform Arts Gallery, Belfast, NI (2015). Recent artist residencies include: Art Centre Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan, 2 months (2016); Goldsmiths University of London within the Embodied Audiovisual Interaction Group, 3 months (2015).