Curriculum Vitae
David Hamilton
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
2011 Doctor
of Philosophy (Visual and Performing
Arts)
University of Tasmania
1969 Diploma of Fine
Arts (Major Sculpture)
Education
Department of Tasmania (Tas School of
Art)
1968 Teachers
Diploma of Art (Major Sculpture)
Education Department of
Tasmania (Tas School of Art)
1970 Tasmanian
Teachers Certificate
Education
Department of Tasmania
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
2014 Lecturer,
Tasmanian Creative Arts , Summer School , University of Tasmania.
2013-14 Board Member, Sawtooth
Artist Run Initiative.
2012-13 Post Graduate
Examiner, School of Art, Australian National University Canberra, ACT.
2012 Consultation and
establishment of a Fine Art Foundry on Badu
Island, Torres
Strait.
2011 Completion of PhD research, Fragments: Beyond the Object
Honorary
Research Associate, University of Tasmania
2010 Lecturer, Creative Arts Summer
School
School of Visual and Performing
Arts, University of Tasmania
Honorary
Research Associate, University of Tasmania
2009 Artist in Residence ANU,
Canberra, ACT
Art
forum lecture, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
2009 Honorary Research Associate, University
of Tasmania
Lecturer,
Creative Arts Summer School
School of Visual and Performing
Arts, University of Tasmania
2008 Honorary
Research Associate, University of Tasmania
Volunteer
Coordinator 11th International Architecture
Exhibition, Biennnale di Venezia
2006-2007 Post
Graduate Supervisor in Hons, M.F.A and PhD
program (SVPA) University of
Tasmania
2003-2005 Post Graduate Supervisor in Hons, M.F.A and
PhD
Part Time Lecturer, Sculpture
(SVPA)
Part
Time Lecturer Design & Technology,
School of Education, University
of Tasmania
2000-2002 Sub
Dean and Head Fine Arts, School of Visual and
Performing Arts, University of
Tasmania
1997-1999 Sub
Dean and Deputy Head, Tasmanian School of Art at
Launceston, University of
Tasmania
1996 Artist
in Residence, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
1996 Six
months exchange lectureship,
University
of Hawaii, USA.
1995 Sub
Dean, Tasmanian School of Art at Launceston
University
of Tasmania
1994 Presented
paper with Pat Hickman, International
Collaboration in the Pacific Rim
at the 15th International
Sculpture Conference San
Francisco U.S.A.
1992-1994 Head,
Tasmanian School of Art at Launceston, University
of Tasmania
1992-1994 Deputy
Academic Dean, School of Visual and Performing
Arts,
University of Tasmania
1992 Attended
workshop on ceramic shell casting
techniques at the University of
the Arts,
Philadelphia U.S.A.
1992 Attended
5th World Sculpture Conference
Philadelphia,
U.S.A.
1991 Six
months exchange lectureship
University
of Hawaii, USA
1991 Curator,
Works All Ways,
University
of Tasmania, Launceston
1987 Six
months exchange lectureship
University
of Northern Territory
1986 Acting
Chair, Visual Arts and Crafts Panel,
Tasmanian
Arts Advisory Board
1984-85 Member, Working
Party on Arts Based Industries,
Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board
1983-86 Chair, Working
Party on Art in Public Buildings
Committee,
Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board
1982-85 Member, Visual
Arts and Crafts Panel,
Tasmanian
Arts Advisory Board
1982 Appointed
as an Advisor to the State Government on Art in
Public
Buildings
1980 Study
tour leader, art galleries and foundries in U.S.A.
1976 Appointed,
Lecturer in Sculpture,
Tasmanian
College of Advanced Education, Launceston
1975-77 Member,
Regional Advisory Committee,
Australian
Broadcasting Commission
1973 Vice
President, Crafts Council of Tasmania
1972 Australian
delegate to the World Crafts Council Conference,
Tarabya,
Istanbul, Turkey
RESEARCH GRANTS AND
AWARDS
2002 Secured two
travelling scholarships under the Federal Govt UMAP scheme for SVPA students to
study in Thailand.
2002 Secured teaching
and development grant with Dr Deborah Malor to investigate off campus/internet
teaching of Fine Art theory and studio subjects.
2001 Secured Federal
Govt UMAP grant to travel to Thailand to investigate the establishment of the
in country elective
Thai Art and Culture.
2000 Secured
commission for casting of an aluminium sculpture panel for Gertrude
Parker, Tiburon California, USA
1997 Secured
major commission for the Pilot Art Foundry to cast three sculpture panels for the
Honolulu Convention Centre,
Hawaii,
U.S.A.
1996 Awarded
six months study leave to research a book on fine art metal casting.
1994 Secured
major commission for the Pilot Art Foundry to cast a large bronze sculpture for the
SAFTI army base, Singapore.
1993 Secured
major commission for the Pilot Art Foundry to cast
five
large gates for the Maui Cultural Centre, Hawaii, U.S.A.
1982 Six
months development leave to study ceramic shell
casting
technique overseas.
1974 Awarded
Visual Arts Board grant to establish bronze
casting
workshop.
ONE/TWO PERSON
EXHIBITIONS
2010 Fragments: Beyond the Object, Academy of
the Arts Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania.
2009 Beyond Object, Foyer Gallery, ANU, Canberra, A.C.T.
2005 Living Artist Week, Pipers Brook
Vineyard,
Pipers Brook, Tasmania
2005 Converging Threads, Ten Days on the
Island,
Academy
of the Arts Gallery, Launceston
2004 Converging Threads, Shaeffer
International Gallery
Maui
Arts & Cultural Centre Hawaii, U.S.A.
1989 Design Arts Exhibition,
Design
Centre of Tasmania
1984 One
person exhibition, Recent Bronze Castings,
Cockatoo Gallery, Launceston
1978 Two
person exhibition, Eric Carr Gallery, Perth, W.A.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Think Tank, Artists Visual Diaries,
Academy Gallery, UTAS, Launceston
2010 Finalist,
Deakin University Contemporary Small
Sculpture
Award, Melbourne.
2010 Eat the View, Mill Gallery, Launceston.
2010 Connections, Scotch Oakburn College,
Launceston
2007 Island-to-Island Travelling exhibition,
Academy Gallery Launceston; University of
Hawaii Gallery, Hawaii; Universiti
Sains, Penang, Malaysia
2006
Fifty Trees of Launceston,
Academy
Gallery, UTAS, Launceston
2006 9th International Shoe Box Sculpture
Exhibition,
University
of Hawaii, U.S.A.
2005 Midnight Painters Guild and Associates,
Long
Gallery, Hobart
2005 Finalist
Woolahra Sculpture Prize,
Woollahra,
Sydney
2005 Finalist
Peppermint Bay Sculpture Prize,
Woodbridge,
Tasmania
2005 Rhapsody 21C Tasmanian Contemporary Art,
Academy
Gallery, UTAS, Launceston
2004 Dare To Look, Academy Gallery, UTAS,
Launceston
2004 Walls of Jerusalem, Academy Gallery,
UTAS, Launceston
2004 White Line Fever, Academy Gallery, UTAS,
Launceston
2003 Our Piping Lane, Academy Gallery, UTAS,
Launceston
2003 Travelling the Roundabout, Academy
Gallery, UTAS, Launceston
&
Centre for the Arts, Hobart
2002 Melbourne Cup Show, Academy Gallery,
UTAS, Launceston
2002 Spur, Academy Gallery, UTAS, Launceston
2001 Souvenir Show, University Gallery,
Launceston
1999 Jack in a Box, University Gallery,
Launceston
1998 Divergent Views, University Gallery,
Launceston
1998 The Garden Exhibition, Mclachlan Studio,
Deloraine
1997 The Melbourne Cup: Glory in three minutes,
two miles,
Northcote
Pottery, Melbourne
1997 Boxed: gifts, treasures, memories and
possessions,
Institut
Teknologi Mara, Malaysia
1996 6th International Shoe Box Sculpture
Exhibition,
University of Hawaii Art Gallery,
U.S.A.
1996 Pins and Needles: Identity and Meaning,
Silpakorn University, Bangkok & Chiang Mai
University, Thailand.
1995 Made
in Norway Sculpture Exhibition, University of Northern Territory, Darwin
1994 Tasmanian Artists exhibition, Freeman
Gallery, Hobart
1994 Pins and Needles, University Gallery,
Launceston
1994 Fourth Contemporary Art Fair,
Contemporary Australian
Sculpture, Melbourne
1994 Sculpture Invitation Exhibition,
Tasmanian
Museum and Art Gallery
1994 5th International Shoe Box Sculpture
Exhibition,
University
of Hawaii, U.S.A.
1994 5th International Shoe Box Sculpture Exhibition,
Work
selected to travel in USA and Pacific Rim countries
1993 Pins and Needles,
Tasmanian
School of Art, Hobart
1993 The October Show,
Queen
Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
1993 Hard Hat Show, Centenary Exhibition, Queenstown
1993 The Big Picture Show,
Long
Gallery, Hobart
1993 Inaugural Group Exhibition,
Snake
Pit Gallery, Launceston
1991 Faculty Exhibition, University of Hawaii
at Manoa Gallery, U.S.A.
1991 What is the Concept? Artist and Ceramics,
Arthouse Gallery, Launceston
1990 Bangles Show,
Cimitiere
St Gallery, Launceston
1990 Art Bacchanalia,
Environmental Sculpture Exhibition,
Hollybank Forest, Tasmania
1990 Winter Lights, Design Centre of
Tasmania, Launceston
1990 Contemporary Sculpture, ACAF.2,
Exhibition
Building, Melbourne
1990 The Sculpture Show,
Queen
Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
1988 Punt Event Sculpture Exhibition,
Launceston
1988 Australian Crafts 88,
Meat
Market Craft Centre, Melbourne
1988 10th Mildura Sculpture Triennial,
Victoria
1985 T.S.I.T. Staff Exhibition, Launceston,
Devonport and Burnie
1985
Six Contemporary Artists,
Tasmanian
Museum and Art Gallery
1984 Second Australian Sculpture Triennial,
National
Gallery of Victoria
1984 Alice Craft Acquisition, Alice Springs,
N.T.
1982 Lilian Pederson Memorial Sculpture
Exhibition,
Queensland Art Gallery
1982
Group Show, Salamanca Place Arts
Festival, Hobart
1982
Group Show, Hooks and Holders,
Design
Centre of Tasmania, Launceston.
1982 Group Show, Winter Collection,
Design
Centre of Tasmania, Launceston
1981 Group Show, Anything but Flat,
Burnie
Art Gallery, Devonport Art Gallery,
Salamanca
Place Gallery, Hobart.
1978 Mildura Sculpture Triennial,
Arts
Victoria, Melbourne
1977-78 Tasmanian Blue Gum Festival,
Tasmanian Museum and
Art Gallery, Hobart
1975 Craft Australia '75, Canberra
1973 Launceston Art Purchase,
Queen
Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2009 Sculpture, Twist, Newnham Campus, University of
Tasmania
2007 Sculpture, Earthdrill Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
2007 Sculpture, Bolt Academy of the Arts Campus, UTAS
2006 Collaborative
Sculpture, Somersault, Punchbowl
Primary School, Launceston
2006 Sculpture,
Wrap, Tasmanian Fire Service,
Youngtown
2001 Sculpture,
Y2, Newnham Campus, UTAS
2000 Rack, Degrees Restaurant, Newnham
Campus, UTAS
1998 Rack,
University Bistro, Newnham campus, UTAS
1996 Sculpture,
Strainer, Spreyton Primary School,
Tasmania
1994 Sculpture,
Pulse, Hellyer College Burnie,
Tasmania
1989 Sculpture,
Launceston General Hospital, Tasmania
1988 Sculpture,
Rack, Tasman Regional Library,
Rosny,
Hobart, Tasmania
1975 Cross, St. Georges Church of England,
Launceston
WORK IN PUBLIC
COLLECTIONS
Queen
Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Visual
Arts Board Collection, Australia Council
Burnie
Art Gallery
City
of Mildura Arts Centre
University of Tasmania, Newnham
campus
University of Tasmania, Inveresk
campus
Tasmanian
Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Wesley
College, University of Melbourne
University of Northern Territory
Silpakorn University, Bangkok,
Thailand
School of Art Collection, ANU,
Canberra, ACT.
REFERRED TEXTS AND JOURNALS
Backhouse, S 1988
Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century
Pandari Press Hobart, pp 92-93
Berg, Pamille September
2004
Converging Threads
Maui Arts & Cultural Center
pp 5
Brown, Paul James September 12
2004
MACC's Cool Threads
The Maui News C1
Davies, J 1978
Earth and Steel, Mildura's Seventh
SculptureTriennial.
Art and Australia Vol. 6 No. 1,
pp. 45-46.
Freedman, Steve Sept ember 2004
Hamilton & Hickman
'Converging Threads'
Maui Arts & Cultural Center
Exhibition Catalogue pp 1,2,3.
Germaine, M 1979
Artists and Galleries in Australia
Boolarong Publications, Brisbane,
p 219
Goldman, Rita
August/Sept 2004
'Unlikely Connections'
Centerpiece, Maui Arts and
Cultural Magazine
pp 14,15,16,17
Hansen, D 1994
City of Hobart Art Prize
Australian
Art Monthly March No 67 pp12
April No 68, pp 38
Hutchison, N. 1985
Australian Sculpture Now
Art
Network No. 17, pp 35
Kolenberg, H. 1985,
Six Contemporary Artists,
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
pp 6, 8 and 9
Malor, Deborah 2005
Claiming Ground, 25 years of Tasmania's
Art
in Public Building Scheme pp 14, 38
Milford, Madeleine Oct 2001
University of Tasmania
David Hamilton
Alumni magazine Issue no 20,
pp 12 and 13
Morse, Marcia, September 2005
David Hamilton and Pat Hickman at
The Maui Arts and Cultural Center
Art in America pp163, 164
Newport, Mark Summer
1995
Pat Hickman
Fiberarts, pp 11.
Ridgers, J 1983/1
Pilot Art Foundry
Craft Australia, Autumn, pp 64-65
Scarlett, K 1980
Australian Sculptors 1830-1977, pp 237
Thomas Nelson Australia,
Melbourne
Sturgeon, G 1982
Sculpture at Mildura,
Mildura City Council, n.d. pp. 86, 105
Sturgeon, G 1984
Australian Sculpture Now, Second Australian
Sculpture
Triennial.
National Gallery of Victoria pp
36, 100, 101
Taylor, Peter April 2005
The problem with
Creative Sculpture and why
we care, Open Gates Converging Threads pp
2
University of Tasmania, Academy
Gallery
Thomas, Daniel May 2005
Ten Days on the Island 2005
The
exhibition round-up
Art
Monthly pp 33
University of Tasmania
May 1996
Warriors in bronze, Research News, Number
11
CONSULTATIVE WORK /
WORKSHOPS
2012 Badu
Island Art Centre, Torres Strait, Queensland
2004 Maui
Arts and Cultural Centre, Hawaii
Conservation
of cast aluminium gates
1998 Maui
Arts and Cultural Centre, Hawaii
Conservation/surface
treatment of cast aluminium gates
1997 Singapore
Armed Forces Training Institute
Patination
and instruction of conservation team
1996 Maui
Arts and Cultural Centre, Hawaii
Conservation
advice on gates and steel sculptural screens
1988 University
of Northern Territory
Bronze casting workshop
1988 Royal
Melbourne Institute of Technology
Assess
and recommendation report on foundry
1986 Newcastle
College of Advanced Education
Advice and report on establishment of Ceramic shell
casting facility
1983 Western
Australian Maritime Museum
Advice
on RTV rubber moulding of artefacts
1983 Fremantle
Arts Centre
Foundry and metal casting
workshop.
1982 Western
Australian Maritime Museum
RTV
mould making of maritime artefacts for reproduction
1982 Wembley
Technical College, W.A.
Ceramic
shell casting workshop
1982 Claremont
School of Art, W.A.
Student
foundry construction workshop
1982 Canberra
School of Art
Ceramic
shell foundry advice
1980 Prahran
College of Advanced Education
Ceramic
shell lecture and foundry advice