Exhibition
Glow - Paintings by Susie Hamilton
7 Nov 2016 – 12 Nov 2016
Regular hours
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Westminster Reference Library
- 35 St Martin's Street
- London
England - WC2H 7HP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Tube: Charing X / Leicester Square
- Charing Cross
Event map
The subject of much of my work is bright light. My figures are melted into light, showered with light, cast hard shadows in oppressive Moroccan heat, are exposed in the neon of a supermarket aisle or fixed in the dazzle of a glitzy banquet.
About
Light is not a particularly comfortable thing in my paintings but sharp, intense and overwhelming and the figure can seem vulnerable in its glare. In these pictures the human figure is replaced by a creature—a loris, tarsier or bushbaby—and the drama between menace and vulnerability is intensified. These endangered, nocturnal creatures are uncovered in the darkness of their forests and crouch, threatened in the beam of a searchlight.
