Name: Susie Hamilton: Underground
Price: 37.07 EUR
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Author: Susie Hamilton
ISBN: 9780903696982

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Hurtwood Press

Author

Susie Hamilton

Year

2025

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

26.00 x 20.00 cm

ISBN13

9780903696982

Susie Hamilton: Underground

Susie Hamilton (Author) · Hurtwood Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Susie Hamilton: Underground"

This vivid collection of drawings by Susie Hamilton, made between 2023 and 2025, captures the London Underground as both a real journey and a metaphorical transformation. This paperback presents a compelling new body of work by London-based painter Susie Hamilton, created on the London Underground between 2023 and 2025. Comprising nearly 90 drawings, the book captures the shifting, solitary figures of Tube passengers. ‘Tube travellers became moon-eyed with stick arms or hands like hooks,’ Hamilton notes, ‘and I liked the way they seemed rickety, outlandish or menacing.’ Ranging from monochrome pen-and-pencil sketches in sketchbooks to colourful mixed-media works on paper, cardboard and torn canvas scraps Hamilton calls Rags, these drawings explore the Underground not only as a physical site but as a metaphor and place of metamorphosis. The book includes a foreword by Eleanor Pinfield, Head of Art on the Underground, situating Hamilton’s work within the Tube’s long history of working with – and providing a rich seam of inspiration for – artists. An in-depth interview with writer Amah-Rose Abrams explores Hamilton’s making process, from site-responsive sketchbook works, to pieces later developed in her studio, while an extended essay by Dr Matthew Holman delves into the literary, poetic and theological influences on her practice. A new text by the artist presents the Underground as a metaphor and place of metamorphosis in psychology, myth, poetry and religion.