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  • Riverbrook with roses by Alexander James Hamilton, analogue photograph produced through water and light, unique work, no digital post production
  • Riverbrook with roses detail by Alexander James Hamilton, analogue photograph produced through water and light, unique work, no digital post production
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Alexander James Hamilton

Riverbrook with roses

photography - editioned work

160 x 80 cms

63 × 31 ½ inches

2012

from the ´A beautiful announcement of death´ (2012 - 2013)

a Vanitas still life tableau constructed entirely underwater, using artist-grown flowers the scene is photographed directly ´in camera without digital intervention.

edition of 2

float mounted in a ´snug´ walnut tray frame
64 ⅝ × 33 ⅛ × 2 ⅜ inches / 164 × 84 × 6 cms

signed and dated verso


Provenance: 

02/2018  Vernon Press 'Animae' ISBN 978-1-62273-384-2.
09/2017 'Contemporary Still Life'  Guildhall Museum, London.
02/2017  Museum of Contemporary Art 'Vanitas', Warsaw.  
04/2016 'Reinvigorating the still life' Bohuslän Museum, Sweden.
06/2015 'Natre Morte' Hå Gamle Prestegard Museum, Norway. 
10/2013  Thames & Hudson 'Natre Morte'  ISBN10  0500239061.
04/2012 ´A beautiful announcement of death´ PA&G Gallery, London.
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Riverbrook with roses by Alexander James Hamilton, analogue photograph produced through water and light, unique work, no digital post production

Riverbrook with roses, 2012