Biography
That’s where it is, across sculpture, digital, social media, installation, moving image, drawing and performance. Where static meets dynamic and water meets electricity. The spark of a television dangling over a cliff by a piece of string. A structured, engineered surprise suspending itself between the obvious and the magic. As if floating on a laboratory experiment into the mind of the human through the eyes of the machine. Orchestrated into a riddle of excitable, hyperactive questions of mechanical visual belief.
You can’t tell a good story in one paragraph. The chew of Information digestion painted against a backdrop of glamorised roundabout music and stagecraft stunts. When live becomes Live you should believe everything you read on the internet. An engineered experience through a slapstick saturated seriousness like the brights of a fairground programmed under the illusion of a perspex raincloud. -
Hamlyn has exhibited both nationally and internationally at prestigious institutions such as Zabludowicz Collection, London. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) Liverpool. European City of Science, Manchester. QUAD, Derby. Gallery22, Bolton. Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece ICC FABRIKA, Moscow. He also represented the UK at the 18th BJCEM European and Mediterranean Biennale of Young Artists, Tirana, Albania in May 2017
Ant Hamlyn was born in 1993 in Northampton, England.
