Jo hamilton

We chat to Scottish born textile artist Jo Hamilton. Discover her stunning fine art crochet work and listen to the podcast here!

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From a mix of wool fibers and yarn made from plastic waste, Scottish artist Jo Hamilton crochets large-scale portraits and architectural landscapes delineated with dangling threads. Her knotted pieces push the boundaries of art and craft traditions, bringing the two together in subversive portrayals of powerful women and metropolises marred by production. Unraveling at the edges, the textured works reflect on interlocking issues like unchecked capitalism, social disparities, and the…

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Jo Hamilton, a Portland-based artist, creates incredibly realistic images of people and her environment using the unexpectedly domestic medium of crochet. Her formative training at the Glasgow School of Art was in painting and drawing but, by her own admission, she was never entirely comfortable with the traditional approach.

scottish artist jo hamilton creates portraits using a traditional crochet technique.

Jo Hamilton and her portrait of Arthur Cheesman photo by Jenny Stapleton Trained at The Glasgow School of Art, Portland-based artist Jo Hamilton crochets