Inga Hamilton
Autistic PhD Researcher & Maker
Art Jewellery & Inhabitable Sculptures Blending the Spaces Between Species
Next Appearance: Round Table Book Launch: Wanted, More Than Human Intellectual Property by Professor Johanna Gibson, Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law. With Johanna Gibson, Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa, Forum for Decentering the Human & Inga Hamilton.
Thursday 1 May 5pm,Queen Mary University London, 67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3JB.
Event is free but please register via the link https://lnkd.in/etkV6dkN
Next Symposium: Artists Normalising Multispecies Belonging Through Interspecies Communication Autumn '25.
Recipient of a 2024 Mike Davies Global Design Challenge Award
Recipient of a UKRI Full Doctoral Studentship Award Recipient of multiple Arts Council NI Awards
As a maker, Inga's critical thinking and wide understanding of tools and materials enables her to explore how makers of all species make.
Through the use of readily-dismissed, low-value natural materials, such as seaweed and salt, Hamilton produces desirable, high-value, wearable adornment. By instigating comparative discussion around her work with that of nonhuman-animal makers employing the same materials and techniques as herself, such as decorator crabs, birds or dolphins, she challenges the viewer’s concepts of value and adornment within the natural world.
Inga's wearable art works spark debate and bring about a wider consideration of similarities and differences of all species. Her PhD is leading her to work with transdisciplinary scientific, cultural and artistic fields, synthesizing knowledge into a non-speciesist understanding of making.
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Creating on the island of Ireland, exhibiting worldwide.