My artistic practice strives to capture a new beauty in natural and man-made environments through documentation of neglected details and occurrences. Rendered in photography, photo-collage, and sculpture, the studies are part realism and part imaginary, exploring shape, texture, and indirect mark-making in an effort to question a viewer’s initial perceptions and commonly accepted manifestations of beauty.
English born, I am a graduate of Fine Art from Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, where I worked across multiple mediums with a focus on memory, coincidence, and authorship. Following art school, I spent a decade in New York City working as an editor at Vanity Fair and GQ magazines, and have exhibited works at Artists Space and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, Space1520 and Tenoversix in Los Angeles, and at Art Basel Miami.
Between 2010 and 2012 I edited and published the arts journal Afterzine, along with artist’s books under my collaborative publishing imprint, Brown Griffin, with titles are sold in over a dozen countries. My first photography book, Vacancy, was the recipient of Japan’s Mount Zine Best Photography Book award in 2011.
I live and work in California.
Contact studio@hamishrobertson.com
