Melanie Hamilton

I am interested in materials, their reclamation, transformation, and embedded histories. I use plaster, steel, wood, fibers, cardboard, paper, dye, paint, plants, earth, and food to create objects, images, sculptures, and installations. My work originates from the female experience, motherhood, familial relationship dynamics, labor, maintenance, care, and the everyday. Highlighting different perspectives embedded in the female experience, I introduce embedded actions accumulated through years of domestic labor—such as chopping, mending, organizing, in order to transform materials in meaningful and aesthetic ways. I am currently examining work by second wave feminists and how their art practices influenced contemporary art histories.   

https://melaniechamilton.wixsite.com/website @cindysusan @melaniehamiltonboundless