Artists painterly explorations of life, death and vanity using photography to paint underwater with light
The underwater photography of Alexander James BY CHARLOTTE SIMMONDS PUBLISHED IN NEW STATESMAN 03 MAY 2013 12:31
Dark Vat resident artist revisit their experience of speed sketching in the black water reflection pool
All the resident artists were invited to watch me work within the space and interpret the experience in their own way. One year on Resident Artist Alexey Igorevich Shidlovsky revisit the conversation.
TV Program El Pueblo Más Bonito de Castilla-La Mancha 2020 as CMMedia visit Renaciendo
TV Program El Pueblo Más Bonito de Castilla-La Mancha 2020 as CMMedia visit Renaciendo
In this digital age I am still hand processing film and prints with an enviable collection of 8*10 films stored in the fridge
'fear is a darkroom where dreams set sail in a caustic sea' quoted in 1995.
travelling the trans siberian railway as one of the worlds great journeys, crossing transcontinental Russia.
a rare bucket list opportunity, not to be missed
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when a copyright breach encroaches onto the realms of fraud by using other peoples work. IF THEY FAIL TO COMPLY HOW TO TAKE THEIR WEBSITE DOWN.
a pro-bono project restoring oil paintings held in the community church & convent art collection
learning from the past always help signal a restoration most suited for today.
Kultura24 Arts Documentary TV Spot, 1st edit of the recent visit by Kultura 24, sorry for the grab quality.
a second look inside the Dark Vat and a glimpse of an exhausted Alexander; clearly the most difficult residency to my experience. Hosted inside an abandoned photographic paper factory with 12 young Siberian artists.
study confirms sea salt brands are contaminated with micro plastics; now pervasive in the environment.
Sea salt around the world has been contaminated by plastic pollution, adding to experts’ fears that microplastics are becoming ubiquitous in the environment and finding their way into the food chain via the salt in our diets.
The most important trait an artist can have in this overly-saturated commercial world is disregard.
In a world of ever condensed trends and obsession with the transient – Instagram anyone? – it is refreshing to see and talk with an artist who is, bluntly, comfortable enough in his own skin to not give a shit.
Hand felled forest timber to finished framed photographic works vastly reducing production footprint
In a bid to reduce my footprint, the studio is now fully equipped to build frames from felled wood direct to the exhibition walls with no outsourcing.
Artist Manifesto - in conversation last night
As we recklessly degrade global waters, while governments and companies extend their privatisation of clean water supplies with global acts of ecocide.
The whole process of making analogue photographs this way is so deeply connected with failure
the process of analogue photography explored with artist stating 'Fear is a darkroom; where dreams set sail in a caustic sea.'
'the loop' resident artist animated film, the first projection location tested across the raw industrial space
testing out locations for the final exhibition
tackling Shakespeare's Ophelia underwater using photography as the final medium
with thought to be lost Ophelia film plates returned to the studio.
converting a bare construction floor plate into an otherworld contemporary exhibition space for 'Intersection'
I was handed the keys to a very raw new and newly built space, upon which we set about blacking out all the windows and installing a hand built a complete lighting system.
BURO24 visit the Moscow Studio ahead of final preparations for the exhibition opening
Discussing inspiration by the Pre-Raphaelites, Vrubel and Flavitsky, here we talk about death and the urgency of life within his work.
ArtNet Interview Underwater photographs by artist Alexander James Hamilton that look like oil paintings
Alexander James Hamilton has earned a reputation as someone working within one of the most demanding studio practices today; using photography with water as a primary medium as we discuss 'unique prints versus editions?'
A Black Hole is created -in camera- drawing in all light and matter that comes close
Fusion series is revisited 10 years after the original project was created. Now taking on the epic theme of a 'black hole' as a even light is pulled in by this spheres vast gravitational pull.
Journalist Jesus de Andres of Neuva Alcarria visits the critically recognised exhibition Renciendo
Presenting a collection of photographs, installations & sculptures that are hugely rewarding to visitors added with the artists historic transformation & revitalisation of a Baroque Convent abandoned for over 170 years.