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Helena Hamilton, Untitled (With), 2018 and 2015
Interactive Sound Installations
Millenium Court Gallery Portadown
Platform Arts Gallery, Belfast

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Helena Hamilton,'Untitled (When)', 2014,
Live Interactive Sound Performance

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Helena Hamilton'The Butterflies In My Brain',2014,
Live Interactive Sound Performance

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Helena Hamilton, NOTETOADISTANTGOD, 2010-18
Durational Live Performance
Millenium Court Portadown, theAgency London, Platform Belfast, Berlin

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Helena Hamilton, Order and Effect 02, 2018
Paper, 170 x 150 x 60 cm approx.

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Helena Hamilton, Paper Study 01 and 02, 2016
C- Prints on rice paper

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Helena Hamilton, Butterfly Archive, Installation View MCAC, 2018
Videostill, Installation View

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Helena Hamilton and Koichi, Live overhead projector sound collaboration
theAgency, London, 2017

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Helena Hamilton

Selected Work

Biography

Helena Hamilton, born in Northern Ireland 1986,lives and works in Belfast. Hamilton’s innovative practice crosses the lines between object, digital interaction and action/performance. Sound, both incidental and composed, underpins her works like a fourth dimension.

After years of researching the use of electronic and digital means in performance pieces Hamilton began expanding her practice to objects and the resonance of materiality by excavating and frustrating their function and appearance. During a 2-month residency in Tokyo she began with austere examinations of materials, matter and personal thought and explored them with processes of sonic tracking and touch, which made use of ascetic practices of repetition. She began re- negotiating the legacy of minimalism, both in music as well as

visual formalism with the added element of liveness. It enables her to explore new aspects of the meaning of objects as physical and sociological events via their sonic and embodied resonance.

Helena Hamilton’s practice is pioneering work by a female artist who connects the sonic with conceptual materialism through digital means as an expansion of art practice. Using sonic explorations for a multidimensional formalism opens up new ways of experiencing art as a lived event, which includes sculpture, photography, works on paper, site-specific action and live sound.

Bio:
Helena Hamilton (b. 1986, N. Ireland) received MA in Sonic Arts from SARC, Queen’s University Belfast (2014). Her work has been exhibited and performed in both gallery spaces and contemporary music/sound festivals across the UK & Ireland as well as Berlin, Rome, Tokyo and New York. She is a supporting

curator and artist with RESIST festival, Belfast.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Semblance and Event II, MCAC Portadown, Semblance and Event I, theAgency, London( 2018), Order, Effect, Art Centre Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan (2016); The Weight Of My Soul Keeps Ringing In My Ears, The Golden Thread Gallery Project Space, Belfast, (2013); Untitled (Hope), Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Belfast, (2013).

Recent group exhibitions include: The Headless City, TULCA, Galway, Ireland (2016); The Making, The Agency Gallery, London, England (2015/16); Sonorities festival of Contemporary Music, Goldsmiths University of London, England (2015); Reassemble for Purpose, Platform Arts Gallery, Belfast, NI (2015).

Recent artist residencies include: Art Centre Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan (2016); Goldsmiths University of London within the Embodied Audiovisual Interaction Group (2015).