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:: Alexander Hamilton

 
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IntroductionGalleryArtist's StatementCV

Born: 1950

Qualifications: DA Drawing and Painting, Edinburgh College of Art 1968-1972

Selected Exhibitions 1990-2010

2010

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: On the Edge of the World

2009

Lancaster University: Natures Laboratory and Glenfinlas Cyanotypes

2009

Edinburgh Visual Arts Festival: Blue Flora Celtica

2009

Brantwood-Sensorium: Pictures from Natures Laboratory

2008

Foksal Gallery, Warsaw: Blue Flora Celtica

2008

Edinburgh Visual Arts Festival: Glenfinlas Cyanotypes

2007

Lodz, Poland: Contact Rushes: Film installation

2007

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh Visual Arts Festival: Contact Rushes

2006

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge: Landscape Symphony

2005

Threshold Gallery, Perth: Landscape Symphony (Film installation)

2004

Innerleithen: Windmills of Innerleithen (Film installation)

2002

Hohenheim University, Stuttgart: Plants as Bioindicators

2002

Edinburgh University Department of Geology: Plants as Bioindicators

2002

The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh: The Great Divide - Plants and Pollution

1999

An Tuireann, Skye: Four Flowers

1999

Stills Gallery, Edinburgh: Four Flowers

1997

The Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh: Cyanotypes

1996

The Cambridge Dark Room, Cambridge: Four Flowers

1996

La Menta el'Immagine Gallery, Rome: Cyanotypes

1995

Fotofo, Bratislava and touring: Shadows in the Water

1995

The British Council, Edinburgh and touring: Four Flowers

1995

The National Museum of Photography: Heaven's Embroidered Cloths

1994

Fotodiffusione, Turin: The Peace Rose..in pursuit of perfect

1994

Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh: Four Flowers

1993

National Trust for Scotland: The Peace Rose and the Pursuit of Perfection

1992

Mai de la Photo, Reims: Cyanotypes

1992

The Photographers' Gallery, London: Cyanotypes

1990

New York Botanic Garden, New York: Cyanotypes

Touring Exhibitions 1995-2009

Sensorium - Pictures from Nature's Laboratory

The Glenfinlas Cyanotypes

Blue Flora Celtica

Four Flowers

Shadows in the water

Residencies 1990-2009

2009

Brantwood, UK (Leverhulme Fellowship)

1991

Paris, France (European Intercultural Programmes)

1990

New York, USA (European Intercultural Programmes)

Awards 2000-2009

British Council: Darwin Now

Leverhulme Fellowship: Artist in Residence - Brantwood

Royal Institute of Architects Scotland: Millennium Award

Scotland's Year of the Artist

Scottish Arts Council: Public Art

Art and Business Scotland: Public Art

Hope Scott Trust: Four Flowers, Glenfinlas Cyantotypes and Public Art Projects Catalogues

Public Art Site, Specific Commissions 2000-2008

Saltcoats: Coastal Beacons

Perth Concert Hall: Threshold Spaces

Royal Institute of Architects Scotland: The Windmills of Innerleithen

Ledingham Chalmers, Edinburgh

Ravenstone, Glasgow

Dunbeath Heritage Centre Caithness

Dundee Science Centre: The Seed Chamber

Art and Environment Projects 1995-2009

Plants and Climate Change, The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Land Form Art Project, Scottish Power, Forest of Ae

Air Pollution and Plants, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh

Eurobionet, Hohenheim University Stuttgart

Listening to Plants, Department of Botany, University of Glasgow

Public Service 1995-2006

Chair/Director Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

Chair/Director Stills Gallery, Edinburgh

Main Collections

Courtauld Corporate Collection

Texaco Corporate Collection

Chemical Bank

The Scottish Government

The National Museum of Film and Photography

French Electricity and Gas

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