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Leonora Hamill:
Tristan Hoare and Wilmotte Gallery are
delighted to announce an exhibition of Leonora
Hamill's Art in Progress series. Winner of the
Prix HSBC pour la Photographie, this is Hamill's
first solo exhibition in the UK.
Art in Progress is inspired by art schools across
Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The
series, which started in 2009, consists of images
of studios where the students work. Shot with a
large format camera and printed analogically,
the images are intentionally detailed, frontal
and neutral. "I have a certain way of
confronting myself with reality," the artist
explains, "and that is conveyed by frontal
images, and by a cold aesthetic that offers the
spectator the possibility of visually navigating
a space that is simultaneously contemplative
and dynamic".
Despite their absence, the students remain
present through the spaces they have occupied,
the objects they have engaged with, and the
work they are in the process of making. The
spaces exude a palpable sense of collective
energy. The objects that are scattered
throughout the studios often belong to the
Western canon of history of art and
constitute a web of cross- references, which
acts as a unifying device throughout the
series. The studios, ranging from Saigon to
Saint Petersburg and Bombay to New Haven,
condense the presence of students, the passage
of time, and the production of art, creating an
intensely stratified space.
Leonora Hamill is an artist based in London
and Milan who works primarily in photography
and moving image. She is the 2012 winner of the
Prix HSBC pour la Photographie and has
exhibited internationally. Born in Paris in 1978,
Hamill trained in history of art at the Courtauld
Institute and at the University of Oxford. She
graduated from the International Center of
Photography in New York in 2003 and received
her MA and MPhil in Photography from the Royal
College of Art in 2008 and 2011. Her work will
also be included in Landmark: Fields of
Photography at Somerset House from March 14 -
April 28, 2013.
Art in Progress
Drawing I Hanoi, 2010
Sculpture I Tetouan, 2011
Sculpture I Bombay, 2011
