David Hamilton

Paris Boats

These boats were cast in silicon bronze by the lost wax process and were inspired by a series of drawings completed in Paris in 2016.

Bishops Hat, a bronze sculpture of church spires and towers rising from a cross-banded shield on a rocky base, by David Hamilton
Bishops Hat, 2023Silicon bronze
Five Folios, a bronze boat tipped on a rock outcrop, its bow lined with small carved heads looking down its hull, by David Hamilton
Five Folios, 2023Silicon bronze
City Depths, a silicon bronze ring of tiny buildings spiralling inward around a dark centre, seen from above on concrete, by David Hamilton
City Depths, 2023Silicon bronze
New Forest 2, a silicon bronze boat carrying a dense cluster of tall bronze towers and spires, by David Hamilton
New Forest 2, 2023Silicon bronze
Refuge-e, a silicon bronze boat densely packed with tiny standing bronze figures, by David Hamilton
Refuge-e, 2021Silicon bronze
Sheepship, a silicon bronze boat piled high with a flock of cast bronze sheep, by David Hamilton
Sheepship, 2021Silicon bronze
Peter's Last Fish, a marbled aluminium boat radiating carved fish forms, raised on ornate spiral columns, by David Hamilton
Peter’s Last Fish, 2021Hydrographic print on cast aluminium
Blind Boatmen, a bronze boat hull raised on the bare legs of standing figures beneath it, by David Hamilton
Blind Boatmen, 2021Silicon bronze
Crowded House, a silicon bronze boat crowded with small stacked bronze buildings, by David Hamilton
Crowded House, 2019Silicon bronze
New Forest, a silicon bronze boat hull filled with a dense miniature bronze city and bare trees, by David Hamilton
New Forest, 2017Silicon bronze
Monument to Okehampton Bay, a marbled boat form bristling with carved fish, mounted on a classical column, by David Hamilton
Monument to Okehampton Bay, 2019Hydrographic print on cast bronze & steel
Last River Boat, a bronze boat carrying a rocky, tree-lined shore with a tiny standing figure, by David Hamilton
Last River Boat, 2017Silicon bronze
Fishes and Loaves Set in Stone, a white marbled boat sculpture heaped with cast fish and loaves, by David Hamilton
Fishes and Loaves Set in Stone, 2017Hydrographic print on cast aluminium
On the Rocks, a bronze boat filled with rubble and topped by a small domed building, by David Hamilton
On the Rocks, 2017Silicon bronze
River Construct, a torpedo-like silicon bronze form with a riveted bulb at one end and a miniature city along its spine, by David Hamilton
River Construct, 2017Silicon bronze
Limpet City, a crescent bronze boat filled with tangled reed-like forms and studded along its hull with tiny limpet-like buildings, by David Hamilton
Limpet City, 2017Silicon bronze
City Reflections, a gold-rimmed bronze boat filled with tangled reed-like forms and tiny buildings along its hull, by David Hamilton
City Reflections, 2016Silicon bronze
City Compress, a horn-shaped silicon bronze sculpture with a tangle of tiny buildings compressed at its centre, by David Hamilton
City Compress, 2021Silicon bronze
Haussmann's City, a horn-shaped silicon bronze sculpture with a tangled lattice of flat bronze planes at its centre, by David Hamilton
Haussmann’s City, 2021Silicon bronze
Armour Reimagined, a horn-shaped silicon bronze sculpture with layered disc forms at its centre, by David Hamilton
Armour ReimaginedSilicon bronze