Biography
Education
1989-92
Byam Shaw School of Art. Dip. Fine Art; Graham Hamilton Drawing Prize.
1981
Birkbeck College, London University, BA English Literature, First Class Honours and George Smith Prize for best first in London University.
1987
Ph.D, ‘Negation, Play and Identity in Shakespeare.’
1968-72
St Martins School of Art. Dip. AD Fine Art.
Selected Solo Shows
2024
Radiance and Shadows, Paul Stolper, London
2023/4
‘Painting from Poetry”, Imperial College Healthcare: Hammersmith Hospital.
2022
Solo Contemporary, British Art Fair, Paul Stolper, Saatchi Gallery, London
‘Unbound’, Paul Stolper, London
2021
‘Ecstasy’, online Viewing Room, Paul Stolper, London
2020
C-19, online Viewing Room, Paul Stolper, London
2018
‘On Margate Sands’, book launch and exhibition, Paul Stolper, London
2016
‘In Atoms’, Paul Stolper, London
‘Glow’, Westminster Reference Library, London
2015
‘Here Comes Everybody’, St Paul’s Cathedral, London
‘Roaring Girls’, The Dickens Room, The House of St. Barnabas, London
2011
‘A New Heaven and a New Earth’, St Giles Cripplegate, London
2009
‘Madly Singing in the Mountains’, Paul Stolper, London
‘Black Sun’, Galleri Hugo Opdal, Flo, Norway
2008
‘World of Light’, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2007
New Paintings, Galleri Trafo, Oslo
2006
‘Leisure Paintings’, Paul Stolper, London
2005
Paintings 2003-2005, The Hallion, Edinburgh
2003
‘Immense Dawn’, Paul Stolper, London
Paintings 2000-2003, The Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, London
‘Dissolve to Dew’, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
2002
‘Paradise Alone’, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
‘Postmodernism and Spirituality’, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
2001
‘Mutilates’, St Giles Cripplegate, London
Paintings 1997-2001, Babington House, Somerset
2000
Works on Paper, Timothy Everest, London
‘New Work’, A22 Projects, London
1999
‘White Light’, A22 Projects, London
1998
Paintings and Works on Paper, A22 Projects, London
1997
‘Stop Motion’, Paul Stolper at Cassian de Vere Cole, London
Paintings and Works on Paper, The Coram Gallery, London
Selected Group Shows
2024
Winter Exhibition, Lido Stores, Margate.
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London and touring
Enchanted Bodies, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London.
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London.
‘Assembly’, Contemporary British Painting, Rye, Sussex.
‘Fierce Scandal’, Lido Stores, Margate.
‘Small Things with Big Ideas’, White Conduit Projects, London
‘Bed’, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, USA
2023
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London and touring.
‘Holding Space’, Hospital Rooms, Bonhams, London.
The Lido Open, Margate.
‘Goddesses’, Lido Stores, Margate.
‘Sila’, Royal Geographical Society, London.
‘X’, curated Narbi Price for Contemporary British Painting, Newcastle Contemporary Art.
Artists Portraits, Stash Gallery, London
The Dog Show, Thames-Side Studios
Ice Station RGS, Royal Geographical Society
3 Murals for Hospital Rooms, Central Staircase, Springfield Hospital, Tooting.
2022
‘The Tyranny of Ambition’, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda.
‘Like there is hope and I can dream of another world’. Hospital Rooms, Hauser and Wirth, London.
The Tempest, Spring Gallery, Cheltenham.
Paint Edgy, The Ropewalk, Barton-upon-Humber
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London and touring.
Art Car Boot Fair, London
Paradoxes, Contemporary British Painting, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
A Woman’s Place is Everywhere, Cello Factory, London
2021
‘What you see is what you get’, Paul Stolper, London
‘Bed’, Bobinska Brownlee Gallery, London
‘Art and Psychiatric Intensive Care’, Cork St. Galleries, London
Art Car Boot Fair, online
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London and touring
‘Darkness at Noon’, APT Gallery, London
Hospital Rooms Project, Askew Ward, Hammersmith
‘Stand Close and Breathe Me In’, Oceans Apart Gallery, Salford; Pineapple Black Arts, Middlesborough.
W1 Curates, Flannnel, Oxford Street, London
Healing Arts: The Future is Unwritten: film and interview with Ben Luke
‘Self’: Cultivate online
Art Car Boot Fair, London
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
2020
‘Dance First Think Later’, General Practice Project Space, Lincoln
Derwent Prize, Oxo Gallery and Rue St Cloud, Paris
A Dreadful Day, Paul Stolper, London.
Dark Factory Portraits (Artists Palettes), Rob and Nick Carter, Ben Brown, London.
‘Beyond Other Horizons,’ Iasi Palace of Culture, Romania.
Picture Palace, Transition Gallery, London
London Original Print Fair, Paul Stolper, Royal Academy, London
2019
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
Westbund Art and Design, Paul Stolper, Shanghai
‘Grub Party’, two-person show, Transition Gallery, London
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London
B+W, Paul Stolper, London
‘Indoor Voices’, Greystone Industries, Suffolk
‘conversation piece’, Paul Stolper, London
Art Car Boot Fair, King’s Cross, Margate and Vauxhall
Contemporary British Painting, Norwich Cathedral
‘Made in Britain’, National Museum, Gdansk
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
Hospital Rooms’ Installation: The Junipers Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit, Exeter
Hospital Rooms’ Projects, The Phoenix, Exeter
2018
‘Small is Beautiful’, Flowers Gallery, London
Contemporary British Painting, The Crypt, Marylebone Parish Church
‘Another World’, curated by Tracey Emin, Frieze London
“The Landscape of Time”, The Crypt, Marylebone Parish Church
“At the violet hour”, curated by Chiara Williams and Shaun Stamp, Nayland Rock Hotel, Margate
“Sawdust and Sequins: the Art of the Circus”, curated by Fiona Robinson, RWA Bristol
“Crossings”, Southwell Minster, Notts.
2017
Contemporary Masters from Britain at Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, Tianjin, China
“Small is Beautiful”, Flowers Gallery, London
“Mono”, Flowers Gallery, London
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
“Nasty Women”, Cambridge
“Anything Goes?” Bermondsey Project Space, London
“Contemporary Painting”, Menier Gallery, London
“Isolation Chamber Vacation”, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery
“Day of the Triffids”, News of the World Gallery, London
“Real Lives, Painted Pictures”, The Cut, Halesworth
2016
“From Lisbon to Vladivostok via Minsk”, Savitsky Gallery, Belarus, Belarusian Cultural Centre, Moscow.
“Small is Beautiful”, Flowers Gallery, London.
“Towards Night”, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
“Paper Cuts”, Transition Gallery, London
“Real Lives, Painted Pictures”, The Crypt, Marylebone Parish Church, London
“Europa”, Transition Gallery, London
Art Suzhou, Lan Art, Ambassy Taihe, Suzhou, China
“The Names”, Transition Gallery, London
“The Art of Mary”, Southwell Minster, Nottingham
“Wishing You Were Far Away”, The Lloyds Club, London
Ruskin Art Prize, New Art Gallery, Walsall
Works from The Priseman-Seabrook Collection, Minories Gallery, Colchester
2015
Contemporary British Painting, The Crypt, Marylebone Parish Church
“lino|cut”, Paul Stolper Gallery, London
‘Material Tension’, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
‘Promised Land’, St Anne’s Galleries, Lewes
Stations of the Cross, Brentwood Cathedral, Essex and touring
Contemporary British Watercolours, Maidstone Museum, Kent and touring
2014
Identities | The Cornelius Foundation | Lagamas, France
John Moores Painting Prize, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London
Derwent Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London and touring
Three-person show, Paul Stolper, London
International Print Biennale, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
“Reinvention”, Mail Art Project, The Green Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
“Underexposed”, Female Artists and the Medium of Print, University of Kent, Canterbury
Guest artist for “One Equal Light”, St James’s Piccadilly, London
2013
Roberta Moore Contemporary, Lloyds Club, London
Neo Art Prize, Neo Gallery, Bolton
2012
“Vacant Lots”: two-person show, WW Gallery, London
“Time Will Come”, Factory-Art Gallery, Berlin
“Rapture”, Roberta Moore Contemporary, The Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham
Group Exhibition, Paul Stolper, London
The National Open Art Competition, Minerva Theatre, Chichester
The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London and touring
“Re Open”: Royal Society of Painters and Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London
Guest artist for “Bite: Artists Making Prints”, Mall Galleries, London
2011
The National Open Art Competition, Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Editions II, Paul Stolper, London
“Unearthed”: Carpenters Road Artists, Warton House, Stratford, London
Methodist Art Collection Highlights, Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham
“In the Flesh”, Paul Stolper, London
“Afternoon Tea”, WW Gallery, Venice Biennale
2010
“Go With the Flo”, Galleri Hugo Opdal, Flo, Norway
The Collection, Methodist Art Collection, Wallspace, London
“Keep Me Posted”: curated by Julia Royse, Posted, London
“Drink and Dial”, WW Gallery, London
2009
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London
2007
Group Show, Galleri Trafo, Lensmannslia, Oslo
Deckchair Dreams, Bloomberg Space
2005
“Strictly Painting III: The Right Side of Painting”, Voges + Partner, Frankfurt
Artaid, Royal College of Art, London
2004
John Moores Painting Prize, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Whittingham Riddell Open, Shrewsbury Museum
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London
‘Presence’, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
2003
Starting a Collection, Art First, London
Recent Editions, The London Print Studio
2002
‘Adapt Now’, Kelvingrove Gallery, Glasgow
Cab Gallery Retrospective 1999-2002, Essor Gallery, London
2001
Unilever House, London, selected by the Contemporary Art Society
‘The Group Show’, A22 Projects, London.
2002
‘Ikon Touring’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1998
The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1997
The Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London
The Cheltenham Open Drawing
1996
CAS Art Market, Royal Festival Hall, London
‘Affordable Art’, Connaught Brown Gallery, London
1995
The London Group Open, Barbican Centre, London
‘Contemporary Curios’, The Blue Gallery, London
1994
‘Images of the Earth’, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Sotheby’s, London
CAS Art Market, Royal Festival Hall, London
The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1993
The London Group Open, Barbican Centre, London. Daler Rowney Prize
Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
CAS Art Market, Smiths Galleries, London
‘Painting the Earth’, The Gallery at John Jones, London
‘Artists of Promise’, Bonhams, London
Selected Bibliography
2024
‘Susie Hamilton’, Anomie Publishers.
2023
Exploring the Luminous Artistry of Susie Hamilton, High Art magazine, September.
The Flux Review, issue 9.
Arty 46, Venus issue.
Country Life, Charlotte Mullins, ‘The Money’s on the Wall’, June.
2022
The Yale Review, Summer Edition, Laura Kolbe, ‘The Physician as Patient’.
The Flux Review, Edition 6, Hospital Rooms, Anna McNay
2021
Harpers Bazaar, Art Edition, Marie-Claire Chappet, October
Man The Ropes, cover image, Golden Duck Publishers
Paintings in Hospitals, Charlotte Gapper, i Newspaper
Artist Spotlight, Anna McNay, April edition of UKNMWA newsletter
Film and interview: Culture Runners: Healing Arts, ‘The Future is Unwritten’
‘A Brush With….’ interview with Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper, April
‘Hospital Rooms: how art is making the near-unbearable beautiful’, Nancy Durrant, Evening Standard, March 23rd.
2020
Karen Ashton interview on Viral Art Car Boot Fair, The London Magazine, September
‘The Buck Stopped Here’, Art Newspaper, September
‘The Buck Stopped Here’, Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, April
‘Top Pick of Online Exhibitions’, Go with Yamo, ‘C-19’, Paul Stolper Gallery.
‘Art in the Time of the Pandemic’, Anna McNay, Studio International, April
2019
‘Barbarous king’, illustration, Church Times, August
‘Another World’ (Deutsche Bank)
2018
“On Margate Sands”, Susie Hamilton and Charlotte Mullins (The Wind in the Trees)
“Send in the Clowns”, Roy Exley, Artlyst, April
“The Annunciation: A Pilgrim’s Quest”, Mark Byford (Winchester University Press)
The Dictionary of International Biography (Melrose Press)
“At the Violet Hour”, Louisa Buck, The Telegraph, 8th February
“At the Violet Hour”, Calum Cockburn, Art Aesthetics Magazine, 5th February
“Crossings”, Church Times. March
2017
Turps Banana, 18, Susie Hamilton in conversation with Nick Fudge
“A fractious and yet fruitful embrace”, Ayla Lepine, Church Times, August
“Barbican Resident”, Garageland 21: Urban Ghosts
2016
“Remaking/Unmaking”, Garageland 20: “Remake/Remodel”
“The Triangular Hour”, Arty 37, Isolation Chamber Vacation
“in atoms”, Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper
“in atoms”, Anna McNay, Studio International
“In Search of the Beautiful: The Art of Susie Hamilton”, Richard Davey, Image 87
“In the Cause of Clearer Vision”, Jonathan Evens, Chiurch Times, May
“Dining Rooms”, Arty 36, Encyclopaedia of Red
“Contemporary Marian Visions”, Pat Ashworth, Church Times, January
2015
“The Self in Speech”, Garageland 19: Self
Picturing People: the New State of the Art, Charlotte Mullins (Thames and Hudson)
Contemporary British Watercolours, Simon Carter
The Groucho Club, Celebrating Thirty Years
The Brentwood Stations of the Cross, Simon Carter
“Hens”, Arty 35: British Culture
“Cy Twombly’s Jouissance”, Garageland 18
2014
Go Figure: an Interview with Three Contemporary Figurative painters: Artsy Editorial
Video interview with Guardian journalist Carole Jahme
2013
/seconds, issue 14, The Cruel Scene.
/seconds, issue 13, The Subjectile.
Art in Print, Editions, July-August.
“Letter to a Hotel Manager”, Telegraph Hay Festival, The Daily Telegraph, May 25th.
2012
“Spying on Zombies”, Corinna Spencer, Garageland Magazine, October
The Threadneedle Prize, selection, The Independent, September
“Vacant Lots”, Anna McNay, Art-Corpus, October
2011
“Insubstantial Pageant”, Richard Davey, Church Times, 12th August
2010
Who’s the Artist? Evening Standard, 22nd October
Guide to the Methodist Art Collection, Roger Wollen
/seconds issue 12, going underground: the cruel scene of the image
2009
Interview Robert Elms, Listed Londoner, BBC London, 24th August
2008
Le Monde Diplomatique, October
The Art Newspaper, July.
Contemporary Magazine, issue 95
/seconds issue 8, orphan letters
2007
/seconds issue 7, sci-fi, utopia, roadside picnics
The Art Newspaper, October
‘Profile’; ‘Anatomy of a Painting’, Artists & Illustrators, June.
2006
‘Riddled with Light’, Richard Dyer and Charlotte Mullins (Paul Stolper)
‘Outsiders but Interconnected’, Richard Davey, Church Times, October 6
Monoprinting, Jackie Newell and Dee Whittington (AC Black)
Art and Christianity Enquiry, October
London News, Contemporary, issue 86
2005
Art and Christianity Enquiry, April
2004
Cambridge Companion to Post-Modernism (CUP), cover image
Royal Academy Illustrated, ed Allen Jones and David Hockney
2003
Time Out, Martin Coomer, September 23
Frieze Art Fair Year Book 2003-2004
Persona, Derrick Santini (Dazed)
Computing Projects, Derek Christopher (Payne Gallway), cover image
2002
‘Fantastical Mutations’, Charlotte Mullins, Financial Times, December 14
‘Free Association’, Charlotte Edwards, Artists Profile, Art Review, November
‘Lone Rider’, Artist’s Story, Artists Newsletter, November
‘Life After YBA-mania’, Carol Kino, Art in America, October
‘Reflections on artists showing work in church’, ACE July
2001
‘Art at St Giles’, Barbican Residents Magazine, November
Time Out, Martin Coomer, October 31
Cab Gallery, Artsworld Channel, interview Kim Noble
i-D Magazine, The Gallery issue
2000
‘Art Works: British and German Contemporary Art: 1960-2000’, Alistair
Hicks (Merrill/Deutsche Bank)
Art London, Martin Coomer (Ellipsis)
‘Hailing a New Kind of Gallery’, Louisa Buck, Evening Standard, Nov 7th
‘Consumed by Light’, Charlotte Mullins, Art Review, September
Critics Choice, John McEwen, Sunday Telegraph, February 20th
Choice of London Galleries, Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, February
Visual Art Choice, Charlotte Mullins, Independent on Sunday, February 6th
Galleries Magazine, Teresa Newman, February
‘Keep the Meter Running’, Mike Dawson, Flux Magazine, February
‘Let’s Go and Buy a Nice Piece of Art’, Martin Palmer, The Times, Jan 15th
1999
Metro: Life, Guy Somerset, November 30th
‘London Calling’, Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, November
‘Fame and Fortune’, Ria Higgins, The Sunday Times Magazine, Nov 7th
‘Inventing Money’, Nicholas Dunbar (John Wiley), cover image
1998
‘Higher Purchase’, John Windsor, The Guardian, Oct 29th
Dictionary of Artists in Britain, David Buckman (Art Dictionaries, Bristol)
‘The Independent Collector’, John Windsor, The Independent, July 7th
Pick of London’s Art Shows, Catherine Milner, Country Life London Edition
‘Who Are Your Art Parents?’, video, Whitechapel Art Gallery
1997
Art Review, February and May
Galleries Magazine, Richard Dyer, May
GLR Interview, Andrea Oliver, May 16th
Choice, Kate Bernard, Evening Standard, May 8th
‘Private Room with a Public View’, Katherine Bergen, The Times, April 9th
1995
‘Some Are More Equal Than Others’, Independent on Sunday, July 24th
Selected Collections
Richard Heaton Collection
The Government Art Collection
The House of Koko, London
The British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings
Imperial College Healthcare Art Collection
The Science Museum, London
Murderme UK
Deutsche Bank, London
House of St. Barnabas, London
The Collection, St Paul’s Cathedral, London
New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge
The Brehman Collection, Chelsea College of Art Library, London
Special Collections, Vanderbilt University Library, Nashville
Methodist Collection of Modern Art, UK
Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting.
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
Komechak Art Gallery, Lisle, Illinois
St Giles Church, Cripplegate, London
The Groucho Club, London
The Cornelius Foundation, Lagamas, France
The Economist, London
THS Partners, London
The John Lewis Partnership, London
University of Essex, Modern and Contemporary British Art Collection