Hamilton & Ashrowan's joint practice explores the 'reverie of landscape' through high definition video imagery and stills. In creating their work, they utilise state of the art visual display technologies to create immersive audio-visual environments (dioramas) and expanded digital canvasses. See formats more information.
Hamilton & Ashrowan- Selected Exhibitions and Projects
2007
'Contact Rushes' - Fabrycka Sztuki, Poland
2 projectors, large scale moving image installation.
'Contact Rushes'
Scottish National Portrait Gallery - 4 screen moving image installation.
'Evanescence - Ice/Thaw Norway'
4 screen moving image installation, observations upon a melting ice field,
Norway.
2006
'A Landscape Symphony in
22 Movements' 4 screen moving image installation and digital prints,
Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge.
2004/2005
'A Landscape Symphony in
22 Movements' 22 screens, 2 projectors moving image installation - Threshold
Artspace at Perth Concert Hall, Scotland.
'Threshold Artspace'
- transformation of the New Perth Concert Hall into an intelligent building,
using embedded projections, multiple screens, sound and light display, sensors
and cameras.
2003
'Windmills of Innerliethen'
A Multi-screen video and surround sound installation in a shopfront premises
in Innerleithen - an immersive experience of the Bowbeat windfarm in an
ordinary shop within the heart of the community to which it is connected.
This work was subsequently shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
and toured internationally as part of Drift.
'Reception'
Three video installations for Ledingham Chalmers, an international law firm.
'Reception' explores the nature of how people enter and leave a space.
2002 - present
Threshold10
Research and development into Threshold 10, an artistic collaboration exploring
how responsive and interactive digital artworks can be used to enhance peoples
experience of entering and being within spaces.
Pre 2003, independent works by Alexander Hamilton:
2002
Euro Bionet-Hohenheim University Stuttgart
Polluted plants-Edinburgh University Department of Geology
Polluted plants-The Great Divide-The Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh
2001
Caithness plants-glass installation-Dunbeath Heritage Centre
2000
Seed Chamber-glass installation-Dundee Science Centre
1999
Flowers- cyanotypes-An Tuireann Skye
Flowers- cyanotypes-Stills Gallery Edinburgh
1997
Flowers -cyanotypes-Portfolio Edinburgh
1996
Flowers- cyanotypes-The Cambridge Dark Room Cambridge
Flowers- cyanotypes-La Menta el'Immagine Gallery Rome
1995
Shadows in the Water-Fotofo, Bratislava and touring
Fours Flower-The British Council, Edinburgh and touring
Heaven's Embroidered Cloths- The National Museum of Photography Bradford
1994
The peace rose…in pursuit of perfection Fotodiffusione, Turin
Blue Flowers-Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh
1993
The peace rose…in pursuit of perfection-National Trust for Scotland,
Falkland House
1992
Blue Flowers-Galerie Antoine Candau-Paris
Blue Flowers-Mai de la Photo, Reims
Blue Flowers-The Photographers' Gallery, London
1991
Galerie
Fossil plants-Lyth Art Gallery, Caithness
Fossil plants- New York Botanic Garden, New York
1990
Fossil plants- Jan Weiss Gallery, New York
Touring Exhibition Catalogues
Landscape Symphony in 22 Movements (Hamilton & Ashrowan)
Threshold Project (Hamilton & Ashrowan)
Four Flowers (Hamilton)
Fotofeis-Shadows in the water (Hamilton)
Group Catalogues
Fotofeis; Scottish International Festival of Photography (Hamilton)
Main Collections
Courtauld Corporate Collection
Texaco Corporate Collection
Chemical Bank
The Scottish Office
The National Museum of Film and Photography
French Electricity and Gas
Private collections in Europe and America
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