Anthea Hamilton

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Anthea Hamilton creates paintings and large-scale installations that reimagine architectural and bodily forms with deliberate surrealism and formal audacity. Her work frequently references mid-century design proposals and modernist utopias, transforming them into provocative sculptural interventions. She was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2016, where her monumental doorway installation, a reworking of Gaetano Pesce's 1970s architectural proposal, became the exhibition's most visited work. Hamilton's practice oscillates between intimate painting and architectural scale, often collapsing the distance between the mundane and the uncanny.

Source: Anton Kern · Trust score: 60% · Updated 2mo ago