Born: Adelaide Australia
Lives: Melbourne Australia and London UK
Education
1993 - 94
Tutor and Technician Printmaking Department, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
1989
Diploma of Adult Education, Hawthorn Campus, University of Melbourne, Australia
1982
Diploma of Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australlia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art September - October
Ice Trumpet Performance and Drawing/Artists Books
2009
Arches and Seizures Ice Trumpet performance and book launch7-31 October
Kaleid editions project space London
2008
Empty and Invisible Ice Trumpet Performance and drawing show London.
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art April 30 - june 15 London
2007
In Space We Trust, T1+2 artspace May 18 - 19 June London
2005
If your head was closed off on all sides, patrick heide art projects, London
2003
Please do not forget your surface T1+2 Artspace, London
2001
Alex Hamilton - Recent Work Succession Gallery, London
1996
New Works (created during residency), Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria
The straight line Ice Trumpet performance Alpha Jetzt Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
1995
Sixteen different landscapeds British Council, Prague, Czech Republic
Selected Group Exhibitions & Performances
2009
The Grand Plasto-Books, Kaleid editions Project space London curator Deeqa
Ismail
If you melted I would melt myself into you. Ice trumpet performance and drawing show Alex Hamilton and Christian Holstad, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art May 20
The Free Art Fair London October London
2008
Open Folds Hockney Gallery Royal College of Art
All Capital letters Deutsche Bank December 4 London
Dead City St Pancras Cript August 27 Curated by Hugh Mendes London
/seconds. Magazine Issue 9 online publishing project
edited by Peter Lewis
The Free Art Fair London October London
Aqua Miami Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
2007
Ice Trumpet performance Tribute to Malcolm Lowry Performance,
at An Evening of Loss by The Last Tuesday Society.
London.
Aqua Miami Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
Zoo Art Fair T1+2artspace London
Avatar of Sacred Discontent, touring exhibition
Curated by Flora Fairbairn and Wolfe Lenkiewicz. London
Obsession durch Technik Berlin, artMbassy Gallery
curator Patrick Heide, mit Andy Harper, Thomas Kilper, Dirk Krecker. Berlin
/seconds. Magazine Issue 5 online publishing project
edited by Derek Horton and Peter Lewis
Salon 2007: New British Painting and Works on Paper.
curated by Flora Fairbairn and Sotiris Kyriacou. London
2006
Ice Trumpet Performance, Loss; an evening of exquisite misery, London.
Art Forum Berlin, Patrick Heide Art Projects, 30 September 4
October
Newspaper, a newspaper about artists who work with newspapers.
Fiona Banner, Angus Fairhurst, Mark McGowan, Hugh
Mendes, Jamie Reid. Published by Eleanor Brown, September. London and Los Angeles
Table Top Beth Campbell David Payton Raymond Pettibon Andy
Warhol Amy Wilson. July August, Josee Bienvenu Gallery New
York NY
The End of Civilization, With J & D Chapman, Paul Fryer, Margarita Gluzberg, Rut Blees Luxemberg, Curated by Nick Hackworth and Wolfe Lenkiewicz, ( Lisa Samoto). Port Eliot Lit Fest and Zoo Art Fair
Concrete, Sausage and other Team Ghosts, After The Butcher gallery Berlin May - July.
Drawing show curated by Patrick Heide Recent Drawing space
London
Water , Multimedia Sartorial Gallery West London
New Gothic (curated by Martin Sexton), Tate Britain, London
/seconds. Magazine Issue 2 online publishing project edited by
Derek Horton and Peter Lewis
Art Chicago T1+2artspace
Scope New York Patrick Heide Art Projects
2005
Zoo Art Fair “Ark” Wolfe Lenkiewicz t1+2artspace
Art News (incl. Martin Creed & Gillian Wearing), Raid Projects, Los Angeles
from our cold hands VTO Gallery London (curated by Thomas Kilpper)
2004
Artist’s Association of Autonomous Book Art and Magazines, Book Fair, Berlin
Art News (incl. Martin Creed & Gillian Wearing) Three Colts Gallery, London
The Patterns on the Plans and the Lack of Plan Plan T1+2 Artspace, London
Publish and be damned Artist’s Publication Show, The Crypt, London
2003
Mothers Oxford House, London, (curated by Harry Pye)
2002
Ice trumpet performance Swiss light on the Tate Swiss Embassy, London
2000
Stoke Newington Festival Ice trumpet performance, UK
Pagemakers London Artist’s Book Fair, London
Ice trumpet performance La llama International Artist’s Workshop, Venezuela
1994 - 99
Pagemakers Gracefield Arts Centre (Touring exhibition), UK
Ice trumpet performance Braziers International Artist’s Workshop, Braziers, UK
Super Nature Studio A, London
Lady’s Smoking Room Installtion, Grand Midway Hotel, St. Pancras, London
Worth St. Pancras Station, London
A Matter of Making CSA Alumni, Canberra, Australia
Fragile Objects Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, USA
De la ville du Locle Winterthur, Switzerland & National Library of Australia, Canberra
Washington Art Book Fair, Corcoran Gallery, DC, USA
Ten Years of Graphic Investigation Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia
1991
Books and Boats State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The City and Beyond La Trobe University Gallery, Melbourne (Touring Exhibition)
1989 Four Bodies Stuart Gertsmann Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1987 Scitture: Pagine e Immagini National Library, Milan, Italy (curated by Gino Gini)
Bibliography (selection)
2009
Alex Hamilton Works -2009 catalogue Patrick Heide Contemporary Art published by GlobalArtAffairs , Peter Lodermeyer und Susanne Morsch Germany
2008
Book By Artists: Australian Artists Books By Alex Selenitsch Publisher Parkes, A.C.T. National Gallery of Australia,
2007
Laura K Jones on Alex Hamilton at T1+2 London Saatchi Website
2006
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by Andrew Colard, Lulu publications
Tintin and the secret of Literature by Tom Mc Carthy, Gratna Books.
Celeste Art Prize short list catalogue.
2004
Contemporary Art Magazine, Review of „Art News“, Melissa Gronlund
Contemporary Art Magazine, Review of T1+2 Show, Andy Weir
2003
The Independent, 29th July 05, Review „Please do not forget your surface“
Sue Hubbard
1989
The Age, Review of „Four Bodies“ Exhibition, Elizabeth Cross
Grants & Residences
2000
VACB Travel Grant, Australia Council
1999
Braziers International Artist’s Workshop
1995
Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus Salzburg, Austria
1993/94
Artist in Residence, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
1992/93
VACB Project Grant, Australia Council
Extraordinary Fellow, Akademie Vytvarnych Umeni
Collections
Saatchi Colection
Baltimore Museum of Modern Art USA
Denver Museum of Modern Art USA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Tate Library, London
National Gallery of Australia
The Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Gino Gigi Archives, Milan
Art Gallery of South Australia
Judith Hoffberg Archives, California, USA
Paragon Press, Charles Booth-Clibbon, London
Private Collections in Australia, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, UK, US
Links
http://www.fadwebsite.com/tag/alex-hamilton/
http://www.raidprojects.com/ArtNews.html
http://www.patrickheide.com/Patrick_Heide_Arts_Projects/Works/Hamilton_A/Hamilton_A2.htm
http://www.t12artspace.com/hamilton3.htm
http://www.t12artspace.com/
http://www.porteliotlitfest.com/pages/biogs/artytechs_biogs.htm#alex2
http://www.fortescueavenue.com
http://alex-hamilton.com/compelled_to_move
http://www.slashseconds.org
http://www.sartorialart.com
http://www.joseebienvenugallery.com/
http://www.after-the-butcher.de/gb/exhibition.htm