Anthea Hamilton (born 1978) is a British artist who graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University ( Leeds Beckett University) [1] and the Royal College of Art [2] and was one of four shortlisted for the 2016 Turner Prize. Hamilton was responsible for the show's most popular exhibit Project for a Door (After Gaetano Pesce) depicting a doorway consisting of large naked buttocks which reworks a proposal by Italian architect Caetano Pesci, dating from the early 1970s . [2] [3] She is known for creating strange and surreal artworks and large-scale installations.
Her exhibitions have included Sorry I'm Late at Firstsite.
In 2017 she became the first black woman to be awarded a commission to create a work for Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries, and according to Alex Farquharson, Tate Britain's director, Hamilton has made a "unique contribution to British and international art with her visually playful and thoughtful works". [4] [5] Her sculptures feature collage-like images which reuse images from her previous works. [6]
Hamilton was born in 1978 in London, where she lives and works. [7] She expressed no interest in becoming an artist as a child and she told her mother at an early age that she wanted to be an accountant, because of her love for maths. [3]
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Anthea Hamilton (born 1978) is a British artist who graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University ( Leeds Beckett University) [1] and the Royal College of Art [2] and was one of four shortlisted for the 2016 Turner Prize. Hamilton was responsible for the show's most popular exhibit Project for a Door (After Gaetano Pesce) depicting a doorway consisting of large naked buttocks which reworks a proposal by Italian architect Caetano Pesci, dating from the early 1970s . [2] [3] She is known for creating strange and surreal artworks and large-scale installations.
Her exhibitions have included Sorry I'm Late at Firstsite.
In 2017 she became the first black woman to be awarded a commission to create a work for Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries, and according to Alex Farquharson, Tate Britain's director, Hamilton has made a "unique contribution to British and international art with her visually playful and thoughtful works". [4] [5] Her sculptures feature collage-like images which reuse images from her previous works. [6]
Hamilton was born in 1978 in London, where she lives and works. [7] She expressed no interest in becoming an artist as a child and she told her mother at an early age that she wanted to be an accountant, because of her love for maths. [3]
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