Susie Hamilton

Susie Hamilton
Susie Hamilton's studio, London, May 2016
Born	1950 London
Education	St. Martins School of Art, London Byam Shaw School of Art, London Birkbeck, University of London
Website	http://www.susiehamilton.co.uk/

St. Martins School of Art, London Byam Shaw School of Art, London

Susie Hamilton (born 1950) is an English artist.

Hamilton studied painting at St Martins School of Art and Byam Shaw School of Art in London (now Central St. Martins, University of the Arts London) before reading English Literature at Birkbeck, University of London where she gained a Ph.D in 1989. Her paintings are held in public and private collections which include Murderme (the art collection of Damien Hirst), The Priseman Seabrook Collection, The Deutsche Bank Art Collection, The Economist, The Bernard Jacobson Collection, Groucho Club, New Hall Art Collection University of Cambridge and The Methodist Modern Art Collection, London. In 2015 Hamilton was artist-in-residence at St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

Hamilton has been called a "flâneur" since she observes from the sidelines, scrutinising tourists, shoppers, holidaymakers, diners, hen nights and other scenes of leisure. She has to work extremely quickly to catch particular movements and poses and this means that her figures are compressed, abbreviated and simplified and usually morph into something misshapen and grotesque. Of her work Hamilton has said “I often wanted to paint joy (as well as its opposite).”

Hamilton is represented by Paul Stolper Gallery.