Ian Hamilton                                                                                                     Biography

      


      

Timelines
1974: Graduated from S.A. School of Art. Adelaide. SA.
1975: Awarded Australia Council Living Artist Fellowship.
1976: Artist in Residence, Griffith University, Brisbane. Qld.
1978: Awarded South Australian arts grant to study the Art of the Golden Bowerbird
1983: Published The Ceremony of the Golden Bowerbird: Playground for Paranoids, 
           Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide. SA.
1983 - 1996: Arts Administration. Prospect Council, Adelaide, SA.
1995: Researches book on Country Australia.
1996: Heart of the Country published by Wakefield Press 1996.
1996 - 2001: Arts Manager, Mildura Rural City Council. Vic.
2001 - Freelance artist, Adelaide. SA.

Selected Exhibitions
1974: SA School of Art Gallery.
1974: Light, Colour, Space,Woolsheds, Port Adelaide. SA.
1975: Skylight and Wool, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide. SA.
1975: Light Drawings, Central Street Gallery, Sydney. NSW.
1976: The Ceremony of the Golden Bowerbird, Griffith University and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Qld.
1977: The Ceremony of the Golden Bowerbird, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide. SA.
1978: The Brisbane Line, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Qld.
1978: Playground For Paranoids, ACT 1, Canberra. ACT.
1989: The Brisbane Line, Prospect Gallery. SA.
1994: Italian Drawings, Prospect Gallery. SA.
1998: Mildura Palimpsest # 1, Mildura. Vic.
1999: Mildura Palimpsest # 2, Mildura. Vic.
2000: Mildura Palimpsest # 3, Mildura. Vic.
2001: Mildura Palimpsest # 4, Mildura. Vic.
2002: Bella Cosa Sculpture Park (Adelaide Fringe).
2003: Rainshadow Landscapes, Stationmaster's Gallery, Strathalbyn, SA
2004: Mildura Palimpsest # 6, Mildura; Intimate Topographies, Hahndorf Academy. SA.
2006: Bowerbirds and the Art of Ian Hamilton, Mildura Arts Centre. Vic.
2007: Bella Cosa Sculpture Park, McLaren Flat. SA.
2008: Palmer Sculpture Biennial, Palmer, SA. 
2008: Homage to Nature; Planet Earth. The Cedars, Hahndorf, SA.
2009: Out of the Forest: Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville. Qld.
2010: Intangibles in Terra Australis, Out of the Forest . Kubo-Kutxa, San Sebastian, Spain, 2010

Selected Publications
1983: The Ceremony of the Golden Bowerbird, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide. SA.
1996: Heart of the Country, Wakefield Press, Adelaide. SA.
2003: Guest editor, Artlink (Critical Mass: The New Brisbane), Vol. 23, No 2.
2008: Guest editor, Artlink (Fuel For Thought), Vol. 28, No 1