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Alexander James Hamilton b.1967

Since founding Distil Ennui Studio in 1990, I have pursued a practice rooted in cultural enquiry and environmental responsibility. Each work is created with the lightest possible ecological footprint, guided by a circular ethos that informs both material choices and conceptual frameworks. From photographic tableaux and sculpture to functional design, my intent has always been to challenge systems both natural and constructed; through a lens of sustainability, symbolism & time.

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EMPIRICAL RESEARCH & EVIDENCE - UNIQUE B&W PRINTS

Offshore Recordings - B&W silver gelatine prints

American Stars & Stripes Flag

TOKYO TAXI - limited vintage edition prints

Ecologically printed silk scarves

Underwater butterfly prints

Digital Art for Every Screen

Vanitas fine art prints

Cymatic Art Water + Light

Objects to live with

Sculpture

  • Featured Works

    From unique photographic prints to limited editions, sculptural works and select design objects, each piece is crafted to the highest archival standards. Materials are chosen for their permanence, character and historical resonance, intended to endure in both private collections and institutional collections alike.

    These works are conceived for enduring relevance, to be engaged with, archived and passed through generations of critical and custodial care.

About

My practice is shaped by a lifelong engagement with field observation and scientific inquiry, with a particular emphasis on the liquid mechanics of water as both medium and metaphor.

Working across sculpture, painting, photography, film, lighting and installation, I explore the intersection of physical phenomena and symbolic meaning; where natural forces become instruments of narrative, perception and transformation.

Each work begins with intention, the act of making that is as much about restraint as it is about creation. I choose materials that carry a sense of history: reclaimed, natural or otherwise shaped by time.

In this way, the work becomes a meditation on cycles; of matter, meaning and memory. I see my work not merely as image or object, but as a quiet proposition: asking the viewer to look more closely, to reconsider what we value and to trace the threads that bind beauty to consequence.

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Journal

Explore a deeper view into the studio’s exhibitions, long-form artist texts, material processes, circular design workshops and the global artist residency program I continue to shape and lead.

This archive offers not only a record of past work, but a lens into the evolving methodologies and ideas that inform my practice.

PROJECTS

Unbound by the architectural confines of the traditional art world, my practice extends into the public realm through site-specific interventions within natural and civic spaces alike, arts education initiatives, sustained dialogue & engagement with issues of sustainability, policy change and our evolving relationship with the natural world.

These projects operate at the intersection of aesthetics and agency, where artistic inquiry becomes a vehicle for broader cultural and environmental engagement.

Plastic & aluminium recycling studio in the Maldives

the first carbon neutral single use facility in the region.

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  • Sustainable 3D printed light fixture with texture

    DESIGNING A NEW LIGHTING RANGE MADE FROM RECYCLED PLASTIC

    how this new range came to life

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  • BIBLIOGRAPHY

    read and download the artists full CV

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Distil Ennui ®. definition... to extract the essence and beauty of life to appease world weariness.

Alexander James Hamilton
Born 1967, London