David Hamilton

Paris Drawings

The initial aim of my residency at the Cité International des Arts in Paris in 2016 was to focus on the historical collections at the Musée de l’Armée in Paris, documenting and sketching various construction and display methods used for armour and weaponry.

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The Rosamond McCulloch Studio is not designed as a workshop in the sculptural sense, so I made the decision to concentrate on small detailed drawings that I could realise in three dimensions when I returned to Tasmania

The following drawings are my response to this new and stimulating urban environment. Some drawings will progress to sculptures, others will remain a record of my observations of the Paris cityscape.

Stormy Night, a pen and ink drawing of a Paris apartment window with wrought-iron balcony railings and a bare tree, by David Hamilton
Stormy Night
Armour Reimagined, a pen and ink drawing of a horn-shaped form with layered shield discs at its centre, by David Hamilton
Armour Reimagined
Tribal Artifact, a pen and ink drawing of a curved, scaled horn form with a tiny building at one tip and long claw-like tendrils at the other, by David Hamilton
Tribal Artifact
Medieval Armour, a pen and ink drawing of a spiked, ribbed horn-shaped form on two stands, by David Hamilton
Medieval Armour
Medieval Shields, a pen and ink drawing of a jagged, checkerboard-patterned horn form on two stands, by David Hamilton
Medieval Shields
Tribal Construct, a pen and ink drawing of a spiked, checkerboard-patterned fish-like horn form on two stands, by David Hamilton
Tribal Construct
City Shield 1, a pen and ink drawing of a spiked lens-shaped form with rows of tiny buildings visible inside its ribs, by David Hamilton
City Shield 1
City Shield 2, a pen and ink drawing of a feathered, leaf-shaped form with a row of tiny buildings along its centre band, by David Hamilton
City Shield 2
River Construct, a pen and ink drawing of a torpedo-like form with a riveted bulb at one end and a miniature city along its spine, by David Hamilton
River Construct
Pompidou Reimagined, a pen and ink drawing of a slender wing-shaped form with a knot of pipework at its centre, by David Hamilton
Pompidou Reimagined
Haussmann's City, a pen and ink drawing of a horn-shaped form filled with a tangled lattice of flat planes at its centre, by David Hamilton
Haussmann’s City
Walking the Marais, a pen and ink drawing of a knotted, rope-like tangle studded with small buildings and topped by a spire, by David Hamilton
Walking the Marais
River Boat 1, a pen and ink drawing of a boat hull filled with a dense domed and spired cityscape, by David Hamilton
River Boat 1
River Boat 2, a pen and ink drawing of a boat hull crowded with rooftops, chimneys and a single spire, by David Hamilton
River Boat 2
Limpet City, a pen and ink drawing of a crescent boat filled with tangled loop forms, its reflection showing a hanging cityscape below, by David Hamilton
Limpet City
City Landscape 1, a pen and ink drawing of jumbled, tilted buildings and spires compressed into a wide horn shape, by David Hamilton
City Landscape 1
City Landscape 2, a pen and ink drawing of a spinning-top form with a spire above and a mirrored cityscape reflected below, by David Hamilton
City Landscape 2
Seine Reflections, a pen and ink drawing of a spindle form with a spired cityscape at its centre mirrored above and below, by David Hamilton
Seine Reflections
Close Knit, a pen and ink drawing of tightly knotted buildings and rooftops bunched into a dense, curling mass, by David Hamilton
Close Knit
Paris Depths, a pen and ink drawing of rows of buildings spiralling inward toward a dark central void, seen from directly above, by David Hamilton
Paris Depths
Below Paris, a pen and ink drawing of a spiked mound of looping, ribbon-like coils topped by a small skyline, by David Hamilton
Below Paris
City Compress, a pen and ink drawing of a horn-shaped form with a tangle of tiny buildings compressed at its centre, by David Hamilton
City Compress
The Way to Sacre Coeur, a pen and ink drawing of two curved, stepped ramps of rooftops meeting at a cluster of church spires, by David Hamilton
The Way to Sacre Coeur
300 Steps Sacre Coeur, a pen and ink drawing of a spiralling staircase tower topped by a domed church skyline, mirrored below, by David Hamilton
300 Steps Sacre Coeur
On the Rocks, a pen and ink drawing of a boat filled with piled rubble and topped by a domed church, by David Hamilton
On the Rocks
Cardinal's Hat, a pen and ink drawing of church spires and domes rising from a cross-banded egg shape on a rocky base, by David Hamilton
Cardinal’s Hat