2. Susie Hamilton - Nomad Exquisite

2018
Acrylic on board
15 x 14 x 1 cm
Signed on Verso

Susie Hamilton is a London-based painter represented by Paul Stolper Gallery. Her work explores the tension between the familiar and the uncanny, depicting solitary figures in desolate or psychologically charged spaces where reality appears unstable and permeable. Through painting, Hamilton transforms everyday environments into unsettling territories in which both figures and surroundings seem altered, fractured or in flux.

Alongside her figurative works, Hamilton also paints animals and other creatures inhabiting wilderness landscapes. In contrast to her vulnerable and mutating human subjects, these animals are rendered with a sense of integrity and wholeness, suggesting a more complete relationship to the natural world. Across her practice, Hamilton combines expressive mark-making with atmospheric narrative ambiguity, creating works that are at once intimate, strange and emotionally resonant.

Hamilton studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art between 1989 and 1992, where she was awarded the Graham Hamilton Drawing Prize. Prior to this, she completed a BA Hons and PhD in English Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, following earlier studies at Saint Martin's School of Art.

Recent solo exhibitions include Underground at Paul Stolper Gallery (2025), Radiance and Shadows (2024), and Unbound (2022). Her recent group exhibitions include the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2025), the Drawing Biennial (2024 and 2026), Assembly with Contemporary British Painting in Rye, and the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize touring exhibition (2024).

Hamilton’s work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Government Art Collection, the British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings, the Science Museum, Imperial College Healthcare Art Collection, New Hall Art Collection and collections including Deutsche Bank, St Paul’s Cathedral and Vanderbilt University Library.