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Production works and editions emerging from long-term environmental research, studio making, and community-minded projects & material use.
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lighting that emulates the intimacy of a fireplace or candle

lighting that emulates the intimacy of a firepl...

This new range of lighting designs are based on the idea of how beautiful and playful light can make your world a far more interesting place to live in. Designed...

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lighting that emulates the intimacy of a firepl...

This new range of lighting designs are based on the idea of how beautiful and playful light can make your world a far more interesting place to live in. Designed...

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Organic lighting made from recycled PET plastic

Organic lighting made from recycled PET plastic

Design prototyping has started in the studio, this particular material is not easy to work with and it has taken years for the 3D printing industry to explore ethical materials...

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Organic lighting made from recycled PET plastic

Design prototyping has started in the studio, this particular material is not easy to work with and it has taken years for the 3D printing industry to explore ethical materials...

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A guide to investing in fine art photography

A guide to investing in fine art photography

Investing in fine art photography offers a unique opportunity to combine cultural appreciation with potential financial gains. After more than 170 years of existence, photography has emerged as an essential...

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A guide to investing in fine art photography

Investing in fine art photography offers a unique opportunity to combine cultural appreciation with potential financial gains. After more than 170 years of existence, photography has emerged as an essential...

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Transparency of a dream - 15 artists proofs

Transparency of a dream - 15 artists proofs

From the sold out series ‘Transparency of a dream illuminated’ I am releasing 15 unique artist proofs from the series, re-visiting the 2017 exhibition ‘Death of the Dream’ with this...

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Transparency of a dream - 15 artists proofs

From the sold out series ‘Transparency of a dream illuminated’ I am releasing 15 unique artist proofs from the series, re-visiting the 2017 exhibition ‘Death of the Dream’ with this...

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ArtNet Asks How Water Can Be a Photographic Medium

ArtNet Asks How Water Can Be a Photographic Medium

Alexander James has one of the most complex photographic practices of any artist working today. His current exhibition “All Icons Are False” displays still lifes of flowers and skulls bathed...

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ArtNet Asks How Water Can Be a Photographic Medium

Alexander James has one of the most complex photographic practices of any artist working today. His current exhibition “All Icons Are False” displays still lifes of flowers and skulls bathed...

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Artnet asks how to challenge the understanding of photography

Artnet asks how to challenge the understanding ...

  The second in a series of interviews with Artnet, I am asked how I continue to challenge our understanding of photography as a medium.Alexander James Hamilton has earned a...

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Artnet asks how to challenge the understanding ...

  The second in a series of interviews with Artnet, I am asked how I continue to challenge our understanding of photography as a medium.Alexander James Hamilton has earned a...

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A collection of vintage Silver Gelatine prints

A collection of vintage Silver Gelatine prints

  Offshore Recordings — a collection of vintage silver gelatine black-and-white hand prints dating from 1995–2007. Memories in the form of texts are recorded on a typewriter, then documented underwater...

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A collection of vintage Silver Gelatine prints

  Offshore Recordings — a collection of vintage silver gelatine black-and-white hand prints dating from 1995–2007. Memories in the form of texts are recorded on a typewriter, then documented underwater...

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Single Use Plastic & Aluminium recycling studio in the Maldives

Single Use Plastic & Aluminium recycling studio...

WELCOME TO MAKERS PLACE — a brief introduction to this project that helps oceans stay clean for habitat and species protection from pollution. Plans for Makers Place II are already...

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Single Use Plastic & Aluminium recycling studio...

WELCOME TO MAKERS PLACE — a brief introduction to this project that helps oceans stay clean for habitat and species protection from pollution. Plans for Makers Place II are already...

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Rastvorennaya Pechal  10 year anniversary

Rastvorennaya Pechal 10 year anniversary

“These are diary notations of an artist living his life directly through the medium of his canvases, a process of the most painfully intense kind. Brutal, yet divine.” Moscow Times,...

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Rastvorennaya Pechal 10 year anniversary

“These are diary notations of an artist living his life directly through the medium of his canvases, a process of the most painfully intense kind. Brutal, yet divine.” Moscow Times,...

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NFC Art Tag Provenance Authentication Without Blockchain

NFC Art Tag Provenance Authentication Without B...

In the midst of the current growth of NFT artworks, and to counter the misconception concerning their uniqueness as an artwork, I will now produce all new works with NFC...

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NFC Art Tag Provenance Authentication Without B...

In the midst of the current growth of NFT artworks, and to counter the misconception concerning their uniqueness as an artwork, I will now produce all new works with NFC...

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Breaking the boundaries of your own construction

Breaking the boundaries of your own construction

“The more well-known you are as an artist for a particular style or flavour, the more scared you become of breaking the boundaries of your own construction. You need to...

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Breaking the boundaries of your own construction

“The more well-known you are as an artist for a particular style or flavour, the more scared you become of breaking the boundaries of your own construction. You need to...

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Making the decision as an artist to be self represented

Making the decision as an artist to be self rep...

After decades of gallery representation, since 2019 artworks by my hand are now exclusively available direct from the Studio. This is a complex and painful issue for me to discuss,...

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Making the decision as an artist to be self rep...

After decades of gallery representation, since 2019 artworks by my hand are now exclusively available direct from the Studio. This is a complex and painful issue for me to discuss,...

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