Yvette Hamilton

What I would tell you with light (11,570,872 minutes away)

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Unique cameraless chromogenic photographic collage
98cm x 45cm
2024

Deconstructing photography into its component parts - light, mirror, lens, and aperture, is an enduring theme in my work. What I would tell you with light (11,570,872 minutes away), uses some of these component parts to ponder on the shared territories of space, time and light within photography and physics. In particular the constancy of the speed of light and the malleability of space/time. This work marks my return to the colour darkroom after an absence of over twenty years. Stepping back into the darkness warped my own sense of space/time, and I found constancy within my efforts to work with light.

Yvette Hamilton is an interdisciplinary artist of Mauritian descent working on Dharug and Gundungurra lands (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.

She is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at the University of Sydney and over the past decade her work has been shown in Australia and internationally. She has recently been a finalist in the Blake Prize, the Josephine Ulrick & Winn Schubert Award, and the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award.