Kaleidoscopic, layered, and architectural, Alex Hamilton’s drawings unfurl like cities glimpsed in dreams: fragmented, symbolic, and charged with an uncanny, nostalgic familiarity. Rendered with pigment pens, markers, photocopies, layers of Perspex and hand-tinted ink washes, these works feel both ancient and algorithmic, as if filtered through a clouded lens and then refracted through a broken scanner.
Crumples are Half Box Half Door, 2025, his recent solo exhibition at Jacob Hoerner Galleries in St. Kilda, brings together a series of large-scale works on paper. Tinted with blanched fluorescents and embellished with enigmatic fragments: “makeshift,” “eminent nowhere,” “transparent head,” text, gesture, and absence form the backbone of these works, an eroded poetic logic where architectural forms become ciphers and gaps become as significant as marks.
Based in Melbourne, Hamilton’s cross-disciplinary practice covers drawing,…