Emma Hamilton is a Melbourne-based artist who has a keen interest in the materiality of the photograph. Oscillating between sculpture and photography, her practice grapples with the intersection of these mediums, bringing photography into sculptural space as well as placing sculptural objects into the space of the photograph. Her work probes the disparities between the observed and the recorded: the camera’s view comparative to our experiential, visual observations.
Emma has an active interest in responding to varied locations and landscapes, researching and making work in France, Norway, Romania, New Zealand, as well as metropolitan and regional Australia. She has exhibited widely in Melbourne, as well as presenting her work in Sydney, Perth, Fremantle, Launceston, Mildura and Nantes (France). In 2014 she was awarded a three-month residency in Paris at the Cité Internationale des Arts by the Australia Council for the Arts. In 2014 she exhibited in SafARI, a fringe event to the Sydney Biennale, and in 2013 was selected to take part in the 2013 Mildura Palimpsest Biennale. Emma completed a Masters of Fine Art by Research at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013, her final Masters work coming second place in the inaugural Linden Art Prize.
