CV



Emma Hamilton
www.emmahamilton.com.au                       


Education:
Master of Fine Art by Research, 2012-2013, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University

Honours degree of the Bachelor of Fine Art, 2011, First Class (H1), Monash University

Residency in the Masters program, 2009, Ecole Régional de Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France

Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sculpture) and Diploma of Language (French), 2006-2008, Monash University


Awards:
2015: ArtStart Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2014: Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, awarded by the Australia Council for the Arts
2014-15: Linden Studio resident
2014: Second Prize, Linden Art Prize
2014: City of Melbourne Arts Grant
2013: Creative Young Stars Grant, Australian Government
2012-13: Australian Postgraduate Award
2011: Monash University Academic Excellence Medal
2011: Cultural Development Fund Grant, City of Port Phillip
2010: Monash Art & Design short film competition, second prize
2009: Monash Global Scholarship
2008: Palazzo Sculpture award


Solo Exhibitions:                        
November 2016: Paths for Navigation: Double Light, curated by Sophia Cai, Dolls House Gallery, Melbourne
October 2016: At the Equinox, Firstdraft, Sydney 
April 2016: Angled Regard, Bus Projects, Melbourne 
April, 2016: Mirroring, White Street Light Boxes, Frankston City Council, Melbourne
February, 2016: At the Equinox, Success Art Space, Fremantle
May 2015: Continuous Column / Endless Film, Seventh Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne (forthcoming)
October 2014: The Sculptor’s Photograph, Blindside, Melbourne
March 2013: Salt Flat, c3 Art Space, Melbourne
February 2013: Salt Suspension, Experimental Art Space and Vitrine, University of Melbourne
November 2012: Mirror Interval, Seventh Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
August 2012: Apparent Horizon, a large-scale public video projection onto the Palais Theatre building, Melbourne
August 2011: Apparent Landscape, Runt Space, Monash University
June 2011: Event of Whiteness, Platform, Melbourne
March 2011: Finding the Infra Thin, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne
June 2010: Trouver l’inframince, Runt Space, Monash University
August 2008: Concrete Values, Runt Space, Monash University
August 2007: Pear Shaped, Link Space, Monash University


Curatorial Projects:
July-November 2012: Platform Archive Project, a curatorial project at Platform Public Contemporary Art Spaces where five artists were invited to draw inspiration from Platform’s 20+ years of exhibition archives


Group Exhibitions:
August 2016: Shakespeare Grove Artist Studios exhibition, St Kilda Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne
June 2015: Specific Gravity, curated by Guy Louden, Moana Project Space, Perth
February 2015: Disparate, curated by Mira Oosterweghel, Kingston Arts Centre, Melbourne
August 2014: Obscura, Bus Projects, Melbourne 
July 2014: Play Me, curated by QU AD, Southgate, Melbourne
May 2014: Slip, curated by Tahlia Jolly, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
February 2014: Linden Art Prize, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne
March 2014: SafARI, unofficial fringe event to the Sydney Biennale, Sydney
October 2013: Lake Transversal, Mildura Palimpsest Biennale, Mildura
July 2013: Material Matters: you, me and every space we know, curated by Sweetness and Light, Outward Project, Launceston
June 2013: Eclipse (return), Articulate, Sydney
April 2013: One Hundred and Twenty Seconds, Federation Square, Melbourne
March 2013: Bound Apart, Rae and Bennet, Melbourne
December 2012: Span, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton
December 2012: Platform Fundraiser Exhibition, Platform, Melbourne
March 2012: Urban Creatures, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne
February 2012: Debut VIII, Blindside, Melbourne
December 2011: Still Gratuitous, Fiona Macdonald, Light Projects Melbourne
September 2011: (dis –) array artists as independent publishers, Light Projects, Melbourne
July 2010: Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
May 2010: Greater than One, curated by Alicia Renew, Faculty Gallery, Monash University
September 2009 – February 2010: Palissade: La Frange, public photography exhibition outside the Conseil Général, Nantes, France
August 2009: Anxious Sight: Drawing Time, curated by Maryanne Coutts, Faculty Gallery, Monash University
November 2008: 30x30x30, Faculty Gallery, Monash University
February 2008: Postcard Show, Linden, Melbourne
March 2007: Atrium, curated by Stephen Garrett and Catherine Bell


Collections:
University of Leipzig artist book collection
Monash University artist book collection
Private collections Melbourne, Sydney and Perth