"Out from in-between"
Linehall Arts Centre
Solo exhibition of new drawings, paintings and sculptural work that reflects on the act of moving through and connecting with the landscape.
Reflecting on the act of moving through and connecting with the landscape. The exhibition included a relief wall drawing and a painted wall feature, as well as a selection of new two-dimensional mixed media works on paper and several three-dimensional wall hung pieces.
Voices
2024
This series began with an exploration of the physical mechanics of voice—how air, vibration, and movement create sound. I thought about the way the inner and outer body interact during this process, and how vocal sound forms invisible ripples that bend and extend outward. I wanted to describe the voice in a way that makes it visible, something we can see and experience through visual means.
While translating these ideas between mediums and across scales, I observed how my own ‘visual voice’ developed, creating something that feels like a vocabulary. I sought to establish an underlying pulse or flowing rhythm throughout the work, where the lines, shapes, colours, and forms repeat and speak, while the white or empty spaces are emphasised to suggest silence or a beat.
Immersed
2023
Scale has become an important part of this project. At first I wanted to create a wild ancient deity that I could call on when trying to connect and trust my own intuition (as a mother). I felt like she needed to be larger than life and make me feel small. I started to draw this undefined creature and the process brought me in several directions.
I saw her as a vessel where life passes through - the cave-like spaces within her fostering flow between inner and outer worlds. With arms outstretched she feels her way forward, her hands open to receive comfort and offer support.
She breathes, claws, expands and encircles. Swimming freely, forever towards herself.
I wanted to present the work in a way that reveals and gives importance to the process. Like parenting a child, I saw how my ideas grew and changed and transformed, interesting at every stage but always moving on. A primal synthesis of being and becoming.
"Mama"
Collective show at Space for Art studio
We are a group of interdisciplinary artists. We are also a group of mothers.
Our studio exhibitions are connected to who we are, so we decided to take
the concept of motherhood and reframe it within the context of artistic
practice, using it as a source of inspiration, collaboration and as a creative
material to investigate.
Biennal d’arts visuals
2017, La Sala Portal del Pardo del Vendrell, Tarragona
Centered
2022
I am walking and observing the light and the shadows move across the landscape. The breeze sweeps through everything that is growing along my path. Clouds float above and the soil below my feet is moist after the rain. The smells and noises fill the emptiness. I am present and at the centre of this pulsing, living space.
I feel connected and part of this bigger cycle.
I feel an overwhelming sense of belonging.
I grasp on to that feeling and carry it with me, along with some interesting dried Agave that I collected during the walk. I want to reflect on this feeling and make a drawing.
For this exhibition, I consider a landscape that holds a space between stillness and motion. A grounding and central point between permanence and impermanence.
"Landscapes of Beloning"
Collective show in Space for Art studio
A sense of belonging is one of humanity's most basic needs. The human attachment to place demonstrates an inextricable link between landscape and identity. Landscapes possess the marked capacity to provoke introspection, turning us inwards. Places can trigger acts of self-reflection, inspiring thoughts about who one presently is, or memories of who one used to be, or musings about who one might become. - Basso
"The surrounding water will instantly fill the void"
2017, The Courthouse Gallery
The title “The surrounding water will instantly fill the void” refers to the futile attempt to dig a hole in sand that is underwater. The surrounding water will instantly fill the emptied spot. This gesture - of trying to make space, to carve out a form, to hold emptiness - becomes a metaphor for impermanence, fluidity, and the innate defiance of form.
This exhibition explores the nature of movement and dispersal: how materials, marks, and forms resist stasis. Water, air, light, and pigment all seek balance, seeping into cracks, or escaping boundaries. Nothing remains untouched or truly isolated. Even in an attempt to contain or direct, there is overflow. Leakage. Absorption. Saturation.
Through a series of new drawings, paintings, sculptures and temporary relief wall drawings, I trace the way things spread, how they fill space, how they disappear and reappear. The relief wall drawings respond to the achitectural space - accumulating around pillars, flowing out from the wall and diffusing.
At the heart of the exhibition is the idea that emptiness is never absolute. Every void is already occupied by something - potential, memory, pressure, or the inevitability of return. In this way, the works give in to the way energy and form naturally shift and spread.
"Chain of Pulse"
2017, An Tain Basement Gallery
Solo exhibition of drawings, paintings, sculptural work and relief wall drawing installations. This series of work explores a landscape that grows out from a central point and folds back on itself in rhythmic motions.
"Folding Pathways"
2016, Solstice Arts Centre
Aileen Hamilton explores the delicate balances and repetitive patterns that bind the natural world to form. Isolated landscapes appear suspended or floating in a fragile or exposed state. Hamilton bends her landscapes akin to a space-time continuum through exploratory folds. This process underpins the artist occupation in searching for existential meaning in both micro and macro environments.
"The Meeting"
2017, Group show co-curated by Olivier Cornet Gallery and County Laois Arts Officer Muireann Ní Chonaill“Hamilton's work is deeply rooted in Nature and to Nature's organic processes and ecological cycles and more especially upon the delicate balances that are essential to these cycles being realised time and time again. Chosen from her original collection Folding Pathways the following pieces have been selected for exhibition in this show; 'When the Source of the wave is approaching. Dusk'; 'Ground Substance'; 'Folding Landscapes'; 'Folding Pathways. Relief painting'. There is a magical, otherworldliness to Hamilton's work. “
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