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 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. Recently her work has drawn on the shifting mountain atmosphere of her home environment, made within, and about, the mists, clouds, rain, sunlight, and the dark skies, moon, and starlight.
She is an Associate Lecturer in Photography and Moving Image at the University of New South Wales and is a current practice-led PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. Her work has been shown in Australia and overseas in exhibitions at venues such as Pingyao International Festival of Photography, Lewisham Arthouse London, Perth Centre for Photography, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Olsen Gallery, Sydney. She has been a finalist in the Josephine Ulrick & Winn Schubert Award, the Paramor Prize, the Fishers Ghost Art Prize, the Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, the Grace Cossington Smith Award, the Iris Award and was the winner of the Sydney College of the Arts winner of the Dominik Mersch Gallery Award and a recipient of an Australia Council Artstart grant.