email: emmajhamilton@live.com
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Awards, Grants and Residencies:
• Residency, Rainbow, Victoria, forthcoming
• Residency, SÍM, Iceland, 2018
• Cultural Development Fund Grant, City of Port Phillip, 2017
• Residency, Fordypningsrommet Fleinvær, Norway, 2015 and 2016
• ArtStart, Australia Council for the Arts, 2015
• Linden Studio resident, 2014–15
• Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, awarded by the Australia Council for the Arts, 2014
• Second Prize, Linden Art Prize, 2014
• City of Melbourne Arts Grant, 2014
• Creative Young Stars Grant, Australian Government, 2013
• Australian Postgraduate Award, 2012–2013
• Monash University Academic Excellence Medal, 2011
• Cultural Development Fund Grant, City of Port Phillip, 2011
• Monash Art & Design short film competition, second prize, 2010
• Monash Global Scholarship, 2009
• Palazzo Sculpture award, 2008
Solo Exhibitions:
• Forthcoming: Photographic Tunnelling II, Wangaratta Regional Gallery, Victoria
• March 2021 - March 2022: Simultaneous Light, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
• July 2020: Photographic Tunnelling, Blindside, Melbourne
• August 2019: Arctic Eye, Tinning Street Presents, Melbourne
• June 2018: Indirect Image, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
• May 2018: By Way of Navigation, Alliance Française Gallery, Melbourne
• April 2017: By Way of Navigation, Metro Arts, Brisbane
• November 2016: Paths for Navigation: Double Light, curated by Sophia Cai, Dolls House gallery, Melbourne
• October 2016: At the Equinox, Firstdraft, Sydney
• April 2016: Angled Regard, Bus Projects, Melbourne
• April 2016: Mirroring, White Street Light Boxes, Frankston City Council, Melbourne
• February 2016: At the Equinox, Success, Fremantle
• May 2015: Continuous Column / Endless Film, Seventh Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
• October 2014: The Sculptor’s Photograph, Blindside, Melbourne
• March 2013: Salt Flat, c3 Art Space, Melbourne
• February 2013: Salt Suspension, Experimental Art Space and Vitrine, University of Melbourne
• November 2012: Mirror Interval, Seventh Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne
• August 2012: Apparent Horizon, a large-scale public video projection onto the Palais Theatre building, Melbourne
• August 2011: Apparent Landscape, Runt Space, Monash University, Melbourne
• June 2011: Event of Whiteness, Platform, Melbourne
• March 2011: Finding the Infra Thin, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne
• June 2010: Trouver l’inframince, Runt Space, Monash University, Melbourne
• August 2008: Concrete Values, Runt Space, Monash University, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions:
• January 2022: Circling the Sun, curated by Tim Marvin, FirstDraft, Sydney
• July 2019: Oceans From Here, curated by Allison Holland, Gosford Regional Gallery, New South Wales
• December 2018: Recent Acquisitions, Carlisle Street Art Space, Melbourne
• September 2018: Oceans From Here, curated by Allison Holland, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
• September 2018: Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle WA
• March 2018: Selected Works, Carlisle Street Arts Space, Melbourne
• February 2018: 2CDEHKM2NPS, SÍM gallery, Reykjavík
• August 2016: Shakespeare Grove Artist Studios exhibition, St Kilda Town Hall Gallery
• June 2015: Specific Gravity, Moana Project Space, Perth
• February 2015: Disparate, curated by Mira Oosterweghel, Kingston Arts Centre, Melbourne
• August 2014: Obscura, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
• March 2014: SafARI, unofficial fringe event to the Sydney Biennale, Sydney
• October 2013: Lake Transversal, Mildura Palimpsest Biennale, Mildura
• July 2013: Material Matters: you, me and every space we know, curated by Sweetness and Light, Outward Project, Launceston
• June 2013: Eclipse (return), Articulate, Sydney
• April 2013: One Hundred and Twenty Seconds, Federation Square, Melbourne
• March 2013: Bound Apart, Rae and Bennet, Melbourne
• December 2012: Span, Stockroom Gallery, Victoria
• December 2012: Platform Fundraiser Exhibition, Platform, Melbourne
• March 2012: Urban Creatures, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne
• February 2012: Debut VIII, Blindside, Melbourne
• December 2011: Still Gratuitous, Fiona Macdonald, Light Projects Melbourne
• September 2011: (dis –) array artists as independent publishers, Light Projects, Melbourne
• July 2010: Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
• May 2010: Greater than One, curated by Alicia Renew, Faculty Gallery, Monash University
• September 2009 – February 2010: Palissade: La Frange, Conseil Général, Nantes, France
• August 2009: Anxious Sight: Drawing Time, curated by Maryanne Coutts, Faculty Gallery, Monash University
• November 2008: 30x30x30, Faculty Gallery, Monash University
• February 2008: Postcard Show, Linden, Melbourne
• March 2007: Atrium, curated by Stephen Garrett and Catherine Bell, Monash University, Melbourne
Collections:
• University of Leipzig artist book collection
• Monash University artist book collection
• Private collections Melbourne, Sydney and Perth
Education:
2012–2013: Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University
• Master of Fine Art (Research, H1)
2011: Monash University, Melbourne
• Honours Degree in Fine Art, First Class (H1)
2009: Ecole Régional de Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
• Residency in M1 Masters Program
2006–2008: Monash University
• Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sculpture)
• Diploma of Language (French)