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This vivid collection of drawings by Susie Hamilton, made between 2023 and 2025, captures the London Underground as both a real journey and a metaphorical transformation. This paperback presents a compelling new body of work by London-based painter Susie Hamilton, created on the London Underground between 2023 and 2025. Comprising nearly 90 drawings, the book captures the shifting, solitary figures of Tube passengers. ‘Tube travellers became moon-eyed with stick arms or hands like hooks,’ Hamilton notes, ‘and I liked the way they seemed rickety, outlandish or menacing.’ Ranging from monochrome pen-and-pencil sketches in sketchbooks to colourful mixed-media works on paper, cardboard and torn canvas scraps Hamilton calls Rags, these drawings explore the Underground not only as a physical site but as a metaphor and place of metamorphosis. The book includes a foreword by Eleanor Pinfield, Head of Art on the Underground, situating Hamilton’s work within the Tube’s long history of working with – and providing a rich seam of inspiration for – artists. An in-depth interview with writer Amah-Rose Abrams explores Hamilton’s making process, from site-responsive sketchbook works, to pieces later developed in her studio, while an extended essay by Dr Matthew Holman delves into the literary, poetic and theological influences on her practice. A new text by the artist presents the Underground as a metaphor and place of metamorphosis in psychology, myth, poetry and religion.
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Susie Hamilton’s dynamic practice is concerned with a wide range of subjects but often focuses on solitary people in impersonal public spaces or natural wildernesses. From the heroic, isolated exploits of astronauts and Arctic explorers to lone shoppers in supermarkets, all subjects are equal under her gaze. Other works turn attention towards crowds on beaches and in hotel dining rooms, who, as in Hamilton’s paintings of single figures, are invaded by blooms and veils of paint.Comprising over 300 paintings in oil and acrylic and numerous works on paper, Hamilton’s work is here divided into thematic sections that bring insight to her research. As critic and broadcaster Charlotte Mullins observes, ‘Hamilton often uses literature as a springboard for her work. Her paintings draw out the ambiguities of Shakespeare, the fragmentary chaos of TS Eliot, the melancholy of Andrew Marvell.’ From the power of her transmutative, barely human figures presented at the Ferens Art Gallery (2002), to the more recent progression of Hamilton’s solitary forms which move across desert, tundra and forests under attack from natural and unknown forces, her often otherworldly figures remain resilient.As Mullins reflects in her introduction, however, Hamilton’s work is not all ‘pain and suffering.’ Nor is it solely concerned with the human figure. Mullins writes, ‘There is joy too, particularly when she turns her probing eye to the natural world. She captures the quizzical gaze and lightning speed of monkeys, white paint splattering the surface as they race through salt flats. We see the lethal precision of a shark in the depths, the pale camouflage of an owl in a snowstorm, the perfect balance of an ape as it leaps from vine to vine.’The development of Hamilton’s work further unfolds in an enlightening interview with writer and broadcaster Louisa Buck, from the night-time desolation of motorways and petrol stations to an evolving interest in human and animal figures. Buck’s in-conversation also details Hamilton’s series ‘Plumpers’ and ‘Mutilates’, uneasy figures who border categories of abstraction and representation. Writer, editor and international curator Anna McNay, in her eight-part extended essay commissioned for the publication, discusses Hamilton’s literary influences in detail, drawing out the ways that Hamilton’s own biography shapes the work and informs her perspectives on landscapes, people and animals. Designed by Hyperkit and edited by Anneka French, the publication has been produced by Hurtwood and published by Anomie, London. Susie Hamilton (b. London, 1950) studied Fine Art at St Martins School of Art and Byam Shaw School of Art. She read English Literature at London University, gaining a PhD in Shakespeare studies (1989). She lives and works in London and has been represented by Paul Stolper Gallery since 1996. Since 2018 Hamilton has been commissioned by mental health charity Hospital Rooms to create wall-paintings in psychiatric intensive care units and made three works for the central staircase of the new Springfield Hospital, London (2022). Recent solo exhibitions include Unbound, Paul Stolper, London (2022);in atoms, Paul Stolper, London (2016);Here Comes Everybody, St Paul’s Cathedral, London (2015);Black Sun, Studio Hugo Opdal, Flø, Norway (2009);World of Light, Triumph Gallery, Moscow (2008);New Paintings, Galleri Trafo, Oslo (2007);Leisure Paintings, Paul Stolper, London (2006);Dissolve to Dew, St Edmund Hall, Oxford (2005);Immense Dawn, Paul Stolper, London (2003);Paradise Alone, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull (2002);Mutilates, St Giles’ Cripplegate Church, London (2001).Hamilton’s work is represented in collections including Government Art Collection, British Museum, Science Museum, Imperial College Healthcare Art Collection, Richard Heaton Collection, Murderme Collection, Deutsche Bank, St Paul’s Cathedral, The Women’s Art Collection, Brehman Collection, The Methodist Modern Art Collection, The Priseman Seabrook Collection and The Groucho Club.