Susie Hamilton: In Atoms

Paul Stolper Gallery is proud to present ‘in atoms’, a celebration of twenty years of work by Susie Hamilton, which also marks twenty years since her first show with the gallery: ‘Stop Motion’ in 1996.  Though clearly diverse her themes are united by a focus on the figure or creature in a wilderness. Her often isolated subjects—explorers, cowboys, spacemen, riders, shoppers--are blitzed by glaring light, dwarfed by enormous architecture or vegetation, bombarded with snow, processed thorough tourist attractions or the structures of malls and supermarkets. She paints people searching or in transit. They are not just bound for the North Pole or the American frontier but--as tourists and shoppers--they are looking for diversion, fun, stuff, commodities. Her wildernesses include the bleak public spaces of Asda and Westfield and her paintings are often wry, melancholic scenes of leisure or consumption.