Distil Ennui Studio
production works by artist
Alexander James Hamilton
established 1990
objects & editions
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Objects to live with
Functional objects that range from lighting, ceramics to homewares, all are produced in limited studio editions. Designed to be lived with, not collected.
Objects to live with
Functional objects that range from lighting, ceramics to homewares, all are produced in limited studio editions. Designed to be lived with, not collected.
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TOKYO TAXI
A collection of vintage prints taken from the book ´Tokyo Taxi´ photography & texts (2002–2012) published by Merrell.
TOKYO TAXI
A collection of vintage prints taken from the book ´Tokyo Taxi´ photography & texts (2002–2012) published by Merrell.
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Vanitas fine art prints
A signature collection of still life tableaux works that are created entirely underwater. The resulting works look more like paintings than photographs.
Vanitas fine art prints
A signature collection of still life tableaux works that are created entirely underwater. The resulting works look more like paintings than photographs.
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Butterfly fine art prints
An iconic series created underwater using analogue photography working with butterflies that the artist breeds in the studio.
Butterfly fine art prints
An iconic series created underwater using analogue photography working with butterflies that the artist breeds in the studio.
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Water + Light
Photographic works exploring Einsteins gravitational wave theory using pure physics.
Water + Light
Photographic works exploring Einsteins gravitational wave theory using pure physics.
journal & news
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Understanding Provenance in Contemporary Photog...
The Biography of the Photographic Object A photograph can appear complete while much of its history remains invisible. The image tells us what was recorded. It does not necessarily tell...
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The Biography of the Photographic Object A photograph can appear complete while much of its history remains invisible. The image tells us what was recorded. It does not necessarily tell...
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A new manuscript takes shape in the studio
One of the most unexpected developments in the studio over the past couple of years has been just how much time I have spent writing. For many years, writing has...
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One of the most unexpected developments in the studio over the past couple of years has been just how much time I have spent writing. For many years, writing has...
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CONTACT STATES
A new series of unique photographic works by Alexander James Hamilton. Contact States returns to the analogue contact sheet as a finished photographic object, where the sequence itself becomes the image.
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A new series of unique photographic works by Alexander James Hamilton. Contact States returns to the analogue contact sheet as a finished photographic object, where the sequence itself becomes the image.
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The Structure of Light: On Caustics
Light is not used to describe the subject. It is reorganised by the medium into structure. A photographic practice built through water, light and controlled instability, where the image emerges as the trace of a physical event.
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Light is not used to describe the subject. It is reorganised by the medium into structure. A photographic practice built through water, light and controlled instability, where the image emerges as the trace of a physical event.
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The Artist as System Builder
The Artist as System Builder Physical Process and Analogue Photography. My work is not organised as a series of images. It is organised as a set of physical operating conditions. Across four decades, my analogue photographic practice has developed through the construction of environments in which outcomes cannot be fully predetermined, yet are not accidental. These environments are built, tested and refined as systems.
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The Artist as System Builder Physical Process and Analogue Photography. My work is not organised as a series of images. It is organised as a set of physical operating conditions. Across four decades, my analogue photographic practice has developed through the construction of environments in which outcomes cannot be fully predetermined, yet are not accidental. These environments are built, tested and refined as systems.
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