Projects & Shows

Drifting Ecologies

A Research and Process Showcase By Caroline Wright 21 - 27 Oct 2023 The showcase included writings, film work and remnants of large-scale, durational frottage drawings. Wright draws on the beach, at the edge of the water, over the course of a day, the weather, tides and waves fragment the work and much is washed out to sea. Wright swims in the sea... Read more

GRAIN

A Showcase Performance, Film, Installation By Maria Proshkowska 29 Jul - 6 Aug 2023 For Pier Projects eighth Studio Social, we were delighted to welcome artist Maria Proshkowska to Hamilton MAS for an artist talk and the opening of a studio showcase featuring recent film and a sand-based installation. Maria introduced her practice focussing on her commission at MAMbo, Bologna. A continuation of her... Read more

Roux Malherbe

Works from the Studio in Oil and Ink. 18 - 25 Mar 2023 Hamilton MAS were excited to show the works of Malherbe during their time from 2022 to 2023 as studio artist in the Upstairs Studio. Works over an 18 month period held in place by bulldog clips were finally on the walls of our downstairs project and gallery space for public... Read more

The Re-Enchantment

Residency Showcase by Marc Garrett 1 - 13 Dec 2022 Marc Garrett has worked in situ at Hamilton MAS for three months and created a new body of work through drawing, collage and painting, making art with his hands after 25 years working with digital technologies. Part of our work at Hamilton MAS is to support artists living with invisible... Read more

Greenwriting

A collection of poems and drawings about life in the Polish countryside by Katy Bentall 25 - 27 Nov 2022 K aty Bentall's book Green Writing is a collection of poems and drawings about life in the Polish countryside. Katy joined Hamilton MAS on a remote digital residency from her Polish ‘art space’ Dobre, during the Pandemic in the Winter of 2020 as part of our Adaptation programme funded by... Read more

Landscape Imaginary

Exhibition by Daniel & Clara 27 - 29 Aug 2022 Daniel & Clara's Landscape Imaginary tour. An exhibition of moving image, polaroids and mail art came to our micro arts space by the sea for the August bank holiday weekend. The body of work explored the relationship between psychology and place, looking at how we imbue places with meaning, and... Read more

The Beauty of Unthinking and Doing

Artist in Residence: Caroline Corkhill 1 - 7 Aug 2022 Caroline worked in full view in the Hamilton MAS project space, setting up a handprinted wallpaper studio for a Print Process Showcase. For Corkhill printing wallpaper is a means to regain order and momentum. The mechanical order of inking up, applying pressure and smoothly moving paper becomes the momentum... Read more

Shelter: Postcards from Felixstowe

Exhibition of photographs of Felixstowe by Libi Pedder 15 - 22 Apr 2022 Shelter is a narrative of Pedder’s time in Felixstowe. Pedder found shelter in Felixstowe during the Covid19 pandemic. The concept of Shelter is ever more poignant considering the current plight of the Ukrainian people fleeing war and seeking refuge. This exhibition invites us to reflect on wider ideas of home, place and safety. Read more

Channel Festival

By Pier Projects 18 - 20 Mar 2022 Our freedom of expression through art and activism are of even greater significance, as is our capacity to take care of ourselves and one another during this time. Channel Festival explored the profound role of the sea in our lives and its impact on our mental and physical wellbeing. This... Read more

Point to Point

A Drawing Project by Simon Carter and Jevan Watkins Jones 18 Oct - 1 Nov 2021 Point-to-Point at Hamilton MAS was an exhibition of a new selection of drawings taken from an ongoing collaboration between artists Simon Carter and Jevan Watkins Jones. For over two years, since Spring 2019, Simon and Jevan have been ‘meeting’ at set times to draw on either side of a five... Read more

Proxy Bodies

With work by Elly Clarke, Bryony Graham, Clareese Hill, Savitri, Galina Shevchenko and Loula Yorke 18 - 27 Sep 2021 Proxy Bodies was a collaborative exhibition initiated by Elly Clarke in culmination of her three - month CHASE DTP supported PhD placement at Hamilton MAS. Through the media of photography, performance, embroidery, drawing, music and sound, the show explored ideas and lived realities of having and keeping a body going... Read more

Scene: Drawing In Felixstowe

Drawings by Sam Wingate 1 - 12 Sep 2021 ipad drawings by Sam Wingate made during the 2020 Government imposed lockdown Read more

Josh Bloomfield Paintings

An artYsPaceS exhibition 19 - 31 Jul 2021 HamiltonMAS had the pleasure of hosting a painting exhibition for artYsPaceS' member Josh Bloomfield. The work produced in this show went towards his Silver Qualification Arts Award for the Arts Council England and Trinity College's who flagship young people arts programmes. artYsPaceS is Hamilton MAS' youth programme, through which we... Read more