David Hamilton
b. 1965, East Melbourne, Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
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David Hamilton, artist portrait, 2021
David Hamilton is a contemporary artist and art teacher who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. His practice focuses upon painting and drawing, exploring the traditional genres of landscape, portraiture and still life.
His work shows a range of stylistic approaches often emphasising formal and abstract values. Particularly evident in his paintings and tonal drawings is a preoccupation with surface. These display a reductive, almost minimalist approach to his expression of subject, which take on a symbolic presence.
Hamilton graduated from RMIT University, Melbourne with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Honours) and later completed a Master of Art by Research in Painting also at RMIT University, Melbourne.
He has exhibited his work in solo, group and touring exhibitions including 8 X 8 IN 88 and The Matchbox Show (both curated by the late Artist Mike Brown) and with the former Stella Dimadis Galleries in Collingwood, Melbourne.
He is currently represented by Gallery Jennings Kerr in New South Wales, Australia.
Hamilton has an extensive teaching background as an Art educator and Lecturer. He has taught within the Schools of Fine Art, Interior Design and Fashion at RMIT University, Melbourne and the Department of Fine Art at Monash University, Caufield.
His work is held in numerous private collections.
Read With Time, 2022, Exhibition essay for ‘By Distance Simplified’
Read ‘A Momentary Equilibrium’ essay, 2023
David Hamilton, Night fishing, 2024, oil on linen mounted to panel, 20.5 x 25.5 cm, Frame - 23 x 28.5 cm
David Hamilton, Building among the trees, 2024, oil on linen mounted to panel, 20.5 x 25.5 cm, Frame - 23 x 28.5 cm
David Hamilton, Road and two trees, 2024, oil on linen mounted to panel, 20.5 x 25.5 cm, Frame - 23 x 28.5 cm
David Hamilton, Iceberg (ii), 2024, oil on linen mounted to panel, 20.5 x 25.5 cm, Frame - 23 x 28.5 cm
David Hamilton, Two men with a dog, 2024, oil on linen mounted to panel, 20.5 x 25.5 cm, Frame - 23 x 28.5 cm
David Hamilton, The Landscape Listens 2024, Jennings Kerr. Exhibition views by Ashley Mackevicius
David Hamilton, Shape of light, 2024, oil on linen mounted to panel, 20.5 x 25.5 cm, Frame - 23 x 28.5 cm
David Hamilton, Untitled (Flowers for E.M.), 2024, oil on linen mounted to panel, 20.5 x 25.5 cm, Frame - 23 x 28.5 cm
David Hamilton, Building in a landscape, 2024, oil on linen mounted to panel, 20.5 x 25.5 cm, Frame - 23 x 28.5 cm
David Hamilton, Spring tide, 2024, oil on linen mounted to panel, 20.5 x 25.5 cm, Frame - 23 x 28.5 cm
David Hamilton, Untitled (Flowers for H.D.), 2024, oil on linen mounted to panel, 20.5 x 25.5 cm, Frame - 23 x 28.5 cm
David Hamilton, Iceberg (i), 2024, oil on linen mounted to panel, 20.5 x 25.5 cm, Frame - 23 x 28.5 cm
David Hamilton, The cigarette, 2024, oil on linen mounted to panel, 20.5 x 25.5 cm, Frame - 23 x 28.5 cm
Red Bluff, 2023, oil on linen mounted on wood, 22.5 x 30.5cm (framed - 25.5 x 33cm)
The Bay, 2023, oil on wood panel, 25 x 30.5cm (framed - 28 x 33cm)
Poppy, 2023, oil on linen mounted on wood, 30.5 x 25cm (framed - 33 x 28cm)
Pyalong, 2023, oil on canvas panel, 20.5 x 25.5cm (framed - 23 x 28cm)
Wave, 2023, oil on canvas panel, 20.5 x 25.5cm (framed - 23 x 28cm)
Path Across the Lawn, 2023, oil on canvas panel, 20.5 x 25.5cm (framed - 23 x 28cm)
The Shortcut, 2023, oil on linen mounted on wood, 25 x 30.5cm (framed - 28 x 33cm)
Portrait Bust in Crimson & Blue, 2023, oil on linen mounted on wood, 25.5 x 20.5cm (framed - 28 x 23cm)
Bouba & Kiki, 2023, oil on linen mounted on wood, 25 x 30.5cm (framed - 28 x 33cm)
Darker Spaces, 2023, oil on linen mounted on wood, 25 x 30.5cm (framed - 28 x 33cm)
David Hamilton, A Momentary Equilibrium, 2023, Jennings Kerr. Exhibition views by Ashley Mackevicius
Sleep, oil on linen panel, 20 x 25.5cm
Paper flower, oil on linen panel, 30 x 23cm
Nathalia, oil on canvas panel, 20.3 x 25.4cm
David Hamilton, By Distance Simplified, 2022, Exhibition views by Ashley Mackevicius
Tide, oil on linen, 27.5 x 30cm
Mirror (eyes closed), oil on linen 30.5 x 27.5cm
Fitzroy, charcoal on paper, 20 x 26.6cm
David Hamilton, studio, 2021
Hillside, oil on linen, 25.5 x 30.5cm
Child, oil on linen panel, 24.5 x 20cm
Child painting, black pencil on paper, 25 x 19.5cm
