Eva Hamilton-Fisher
Eva Hamilton-Fisher was born in Budapest in 1969 and gained her fine arts degree from Nyiregyhaza College in 1995. Since 2001 she has been living in Britain and working from a studio in Vernon Mill, Stockport as a full time painter. She regularly displays her work in open studio exhibitions and has had several one-person shows in and around Manchester. She has also shown in contemporary galleries such as the Wendy J. Levy Contemporary Arts Gallery in Manchester, and in several group shows including the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition, 2004.
With multimedia, film and photography ever more dominant in fine art, traditional values such as drawing and other fine craftsmanship have largely become curiosities. Does our society, and therefore art, react to mass-media production in our digital age? The speed of technology and military actions seem to Eva to symbolise masculine characteristics, whilst in her extensive use of female form in her installations she attempts to represent life an birth -- and idealistic attempt to restore some harmony to art and life. In the last one hundred years art has become detached from aesthetic and academic preoccupation to reconcile art and the public. However, even after that hundred years the public still doubts its understanding of contemporary art. Does this mean that there is public demand for visual basics?
Eva's preferred medium is still charcoal; she pushes its technique to the limits in trying to paint in layers with it. She displays images of the female form alongside black and white digital phot-prints of antique linen and three dimensional canvas statues. Thus Eva's charcoal drawing installation 'Renaissance' includes contradictory elements to challenge the viewer.
Her work has been reviewed in Cheshire Life magazine, City Life and the Manchester Evening News' Metromagazine.