Tegan Hamilton | 'Pantestudines, 2023' | 90x120cm

Code: MATH23003

Artist: Tegan Hamilton

Title: Pantestudines

Area: Melbourne, VIC

Medium: Acrylic On Linen

Size: 90x120cm

Year: 2023

Tegan Hamilton's practice begins in glass, where light does not sit on a surface but moves through a body of material, and that sensibility carries directly into her work on canvas. Pantestudines belongs to her ongoing engagement with natural history and marine life, subjects she has returned to across blown and sculpted glass, painting and print. The sea turtle recurs in her work as a study in volume and silhouette, an animal whose armoured form and slow, deliberate movement through water offer the same problems of light and structure she has spent years solving in molten glass.

Tegan Hamilton, born in 1985, is an Australian artist working in glass, painting and sculpture. She trained at Monash University, completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Glass) with Honours in 2007 and a Master of Fine Arts (Glass) in 2011, and has been an active member of both the Australian and Seattle studio glass communities, working alongside internationally recognised glass artists in Australia and abroad. Glass remains the discipline that shapes her eye: the blown and sculpted form, the behaviour of light through a body of material, and a precision of making that carries into her work on canvas and paper. Her subjects are drawn largely from the natural world, and from figuration handled with a sculptor's attention to volume and silhouette. She has exhibited throughout Australia and internationally, including several solo shows, the Talente exhibition in Germany in 2011 and the Corning Museum of Glass in New York in 2020, and has been featured in Craft Arts International. She has been shortlisted for the Art Gallery of Western Australia's Tom Malone Prize, the Ranamok Glass Prize, the Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture Award and the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize at the South Australian Museum. She is based in Melbourne.