Richard Forbes-Hamilton
I am an interdisciplinary artist currently living and working in London. My practice often explores singular ideas/motifs repeated through what might be conventionally seen as divergent methods including painting, video, sound, photography and textiles. I articulate my work through a personal understanding of methods attributed to painting, such as intuitive working, quality of surface/material and understanding through making – these are explored through a variety of mediums from archetypal painting methods to experimental cutting edge digital animation.
Central and reoccurring themes include the nature of experience, liminal perspectives/spaces, identity/ritual and the resonance of images.
Selected Projects/Exhibitions/Awards
2024
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick
2022
FeKK – Ljubljana Short Film Festival
Concorto Film Festival, Portenure
Short Waves Festival, Poznań
Kortfilmfestivalen, Grimstad
2021
Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Winterthur
An Evening with Richard Forbes-Hamilton, European Film Festival, Palić
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick
2017-2020
Honorary Research Associate, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2020
Athens Animfest 2020, Athens
isolation/diversity/climate – Strangelove Time-based Media Festival
ICONA [Animation Festival], Corfu
Cámara Lúcida – V International Festival of Non-Fiction Film – Experimental and Expanded Poetics
Visions in the Nunnery 2020 | P3 Benedict Drew, Nunnery Gallery, London
2019
Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick A Ghost Eats Mud on the Mountain, Black Tower Projects, London
Whitechapel Open Screenings, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Edge of Frame: Surface Memory, CLose-Up Film Centre, London
2018
Simmer, The Cock Tavern, London How can I deny that these hands and this body are mine?, Kelder Projects, London
Syllabusmix, Guest Projects, London Dancers, Slade Gallery, Slade School of Fine Art, London
On My Island None Of This Would Be True, Arebyte Gallery, London
2017
Relics From The De-Crypt, Gossamer Fog, London 4 Years of Echo presents: A Warp Show by Katja Ruge & Mira Calix, Echo Buecher, Berlin
Altai in Residence; Experiments in Collective Practice, Royal College of Art, London
Pendolino Vol.1, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow
2016
Exchange Rates, Brooklyn Fire Proof, New York
Feeling Safer, IMT Gallery, London
Teleonomy, Cafe Oto, London
2015
No horns sounding in the valley, Tenderbooks, London
Anilogue, Urania, Budapest
Catacombs 001, San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego
Cabinet of Beauty and Culture, HouseRules 12, London
2014
Tokyo in the Fall, Gerald Moore Gallery, London
2013
Triangle Network International Artist Workshop, Muscat
2012
We Need These Images, Cole, London
2011
We Need These Images, Artport, Berlin