Brenton Hamilton, Meditations on Freedom No. 6, 1/1, 2026, Cyanotype on Arches, 13 x 19 inches

For over three decades,  Brenton Hamilton has created a sustained body of work, largely concentrated within historic process. Especially gum bichromated forms, platinum, the embellished cyanotype, and collodion on black glass, during these decades,  he has produced a unique body of work. Shaping a large catalog of embellished stories using the vocabulary of surrealism,  revealing his thoughts and musings and life's upheaval.

A well known teacher often on the summer campus of Maine Media Workshops, he is a leading educator and historian. Brenton's work is collected and exhibited internationally and held in the permanent collections of: The Farnsworth Art Museum, The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine and The University of New England and the Lamar Dodd Art Center's permanent collection in Georgia and recently, the Colby College Museum collection. The photographic work is represented by TILT Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ and frequently shown in Maine at The Page Gallery in Camden and also exhibits work at Maine Museum of Photographic Art, Portland, Maine.  In January, 2017,  The University of Maine Museum of Art,  installed a mid-career retrospective of his decades of practice. His work has been supported by the Maine Arts Commission and commissioned by Maine's,  Portland Museum of Art. In 2022,  Hamilton  began lecturing at The University of Texas in the Lower Rio Grande Valley on subjects in photography darkroom practices and visual culture.