COLLECTIONS/ VANITAS
  • a real human skull is veiled in an Edwardian burial veil
  • a contemporary vanitas photograph of a human skull veiled in lace with flowers growing from the eye sockets
  • a detail image of a human skull veiled in black lace with flowers growing from within
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Alexander James Hamilton

Veiled skull with flowers

archival pigment print

90 x 120 cms

35.4 x 47.2 inches

dated 2012 

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

a Vanitas still life tableau constructed entirely underwater, using artist-grown flowers and a human skull that is photographed directly in camera without digital intervention.

from an edition of 10

float mounted in a ´snug´ walnut tray frame
36.6 x 48.4 x 2.4 inches / 93 x 123 x 6 cms

signed and dated verso

catalogue pdf


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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