Inga Hamilton
Autistic PhD Researcher & Maker
Art Jewellery & Inhabitable Sculptures Blending the Spaces Between Species
Next Appearances: Keynote Speaker, Post-Extractive Visuality Conference Centre for Visual Arts & Culture, Durham, UK, 15th-16th June 2026.
Presenting at Multispecies Methods Workshops #2 Liège, Belgium, 7th-9th July 2026
Recipient of Mike Davies Global Design Challenge Award 2024 & 2025
Recipient of a UKRI Full Doctoral Studentship Award Recipient of Multiple Arts Council NI Awards
Publications, press and videos.
Where printed matter is featured, copyright of originals remains with publishers.
Digging A Cathedral: Communication with an Animal Artisan."
Dark Matter Women Witnessing. Issue 19 part 2. May 2026
Dubh – dialogues in black.
Central spread artist. Book on the collaboration between STUDIO practice and the American Irish Historical Society.
Intuitive interspecies communication with a Grub reveals that the Applied Arts can no longer ignore nonhuman-animal artisans.
Journal of Organizational Ethnography. April 2026
An Autistic Aesthetic of Connectivity
Ought, the Autistic Journal, aesthetics issue. Vol5, Issue 2, Article 15. 2024
Resurgence Magazine
Featuring my coral sculptures
Anthropocentric Bias May Explain Research Disparities Between Animal Tool Use and Nest Building.
Animal Behaviour. With Dr Sally Street and Dr Sue Healy 2025
Craftivism Contributing essayist for Betsy Greer's book on the worldwide movement that operates at the intersection of craft and activism.
Astounding Knits! by Lela Nargi
Featuring my crocheted
reef sculptures, Cor Blimey Crochet and Breaking the World Record for Using the Largest Crochet Hook.
Queen's University, Belfast
Computer Science Building,
Dept. of Robotic Ethnology
ROOM OF CONNECTION, 2018
The Ark, Children's Cultural Centre
Interview with the artist.
Awakening Curiosity, The Ark, Dublin. 2012
ANGER: Fenrir - Photoshoot Sneak Peak
The Ancients Series No3. 2017
The Ark, Children's Cultural Centre
Interview with the artist.
Crafted Creatures, The Ark, Dublin. 2011
Cor Blimey Crochet!
Watch me arm crochet a giant bacteria at the Turnpike Gallery in front of the Culture Minister. 2009
Making Plarn
Learn my technique for stripping plastic bags
into a continuous yarn.
Inga's current PhD research examines
'The Things That Nonhuman Animals Make.'
If you would like to feature her artwork, inhabitable sculptures
or jewellery in your publication, then please do get in contact.
likewise, for commissions, exhibitions, or if you are interested in representing Inga's work, then please click this button.
Creating on the island of Ireland, exhibiting worldwide.