EMAIL: yvette@yvettehamilton.com // INSTAGRAM: @yvettehamilton

Yvette Hamilton is an Australian interdisciplinary artist of Mauritian descent working on the unceded lands of the Dharug and Gundungurra people (Blue Mountains, NSW). Her expanded photographic practice incorporates analogue and hand-crafted photographic techniques, alongside digital technologies, and installation. Conceptually, her work pushes at the limits and expectations of representation within photography and aims to explore the ontological paradoxes inherent within the medium. Her work often focuses on the quest to see the unseen, to broach distance, explore the unknown, and to materialise the invisible. Mostly working without a camera, her sparse compositions incorporate the role of chance whilst recording the passage of time and the influence of the atmosphere onto light sensitive surfaces.

She is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at the University of Sydney and recently completed her practice-led PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, where she explored photography and astronomy through the metaphor of a black hole. Her work has been shown in Australia and overseas in exhibitions at venues such as Pingyao International Festival of Photography, China; Equivalent Behaviour, London UK; Perth Centre for Photography, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery. She has recently been a finalist in the Blake Prize, the Josephine Ulrick & Winn Schubert Award, and the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award.