Tegan Hamilton | 'The Art Of Science IV, 2016' | 14x10x10cm
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Code: MATH1606
Artist: Tegan Hamilton
Title: The Art Of Science IV
Area: Melbourne, VIC
Medium: Blown And Sculpted Glass
Size: 14x10x10cm
Year: 2016
Tegan Hamilton's Art of Science works take their form from the laboratory bench - the conical flask, the beaker, the specimen jar - and turn that familiar scientific glassware into a vehicle for natural history drawing. Trained in blown and sculpted glass at Monash University, Hamilton treats the vessel itself as a kind of page: a clear or coloured body of glass that holds light the way a specimen jar holds its contents, onto which she then draws the animal or plant under study. The series sits at the meeting point of her two disciplines, glassmaking and drawing, each sharpening the other.
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.