Education
2008 - 2009
MA Fine Art: Drawing, Wimbledon College of Art (UK)
2005 - 2008
BA (Hons) Visual Arts, University of Salford (UK)
Artist Residencies
2024
Liberation Through Art: Liberation Art x King’s School, Liberation Art Gallery, Brighton (UK)
2014
Print Studio Residency, The Bluecoat, Liverpool (UK)
2012
Sketch-O-Matic Micro Residency, Cornerhouse, Manchester (UK)
2011
AA2A, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
Sketch-O-Matic Micro Residency, Cornerhouse, Manchester (UK)
Grants & Crowdfunded Projects
2024
Anatomize Oracle Reprint, Kickstarter Project
2022
Anatomize Oracle, Kickstarter Project
2020
Monochromatica Tarot, Kickstarter Project
2017
Iaspis International Cooperative Projects Grant, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (SE)
Project Support Grant, Stockholms Stad (SE)
Art Prizes
2024
AIR Open 2024, Rogue Artist Studios CIC, Manchester (UK)
2023
AIR Open 2023, Rogue Artist Studios CIC, Manchester (UK)
2014
Miniprint Finland, Hyvinkää Art Museum (FI)
2012
Pushing Print Prize, Pie Factory, Margate (UK)
neo:printprize, neo:gallery22, Greater Manchester (UK)
neo:artprize, neo:gallery22, Greater Manchester (UK)
Art Fairs
2017
Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm (SE)
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London (UK)
2016
Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm (SE)
2015
Sluice_2015, OXO Tower Wharf, London (UK)
Art Copenhagen, Forum Copenhagen, Copenhagen (DK)
Kölner Liste, Cologne (DE)
2014
Exchange Rates, Sluice Art Fair, New York (US)
The Manchester Contemporary, Manchester (UK)
Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm (SE)
2013
The Manchester Contemporary, Manchester (UK)
2012
The Manchester Contemporary, Manchester (UK)
2010
Art Junky, Phoenix Brighton, Brighton & Hove (UK)
2009
Art Junky, Phoenix Brighton, Brighton & Hove (UK)
Exhibitions
2025
In Bloom, Liberation Gallery, Brighton (UK)
Self-Portrait, Cista Arts, London (UK)
Why I Draw, Hive Gallery, Greater Manchester (UK)
2024
Liberation Through Art: Liberation Art x Kings School, Liberation Art Gallery, Brighton (UK)
Conceal Reveal, Liberation Art Gallery, Brighton (UK)
Secret Postcard Show 2024, The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford (UK)
Flowers, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield (UK)
Connections, Liberation Gallery, Brighton (UK)
Care is Art, Art is Care, Insights of an Eco Artist & UAAD, Lisbon (PT)
Summer, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield (UK)
Eos, The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford (UK)
SFSA Drawing Open, No Format Gallery, London (UK)
New Beginnings, Badger in the Wall Gallery, Clapham (UK)
Metamorphosis: Exploring Transformation Through Art, Cista Arts, London (UK)
Salt and Stars, J/M Gallery, London (UK)
2023
Do you hear us…are you listening? Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
We Are The Witches, The House of Smalls, Chipping Campden (UK)
TEES, Rogue Artist Studios CIC, Manchester (UK)
Studio 44 Jubileum, Studio 44, Stockholm (SE)
Secret Postcard Show 2023, The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford (UK)
Useful Drawings, Open Eye Gallery, London (UK)
Procreate Project Archive, Ovada, Oxford (UK)
2022
Secret Postcard Show 2022, The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford (UK)
60 Drawings + 10, The Whitaker, Rawtenstall (UK)
2020
Portrait, AIR Gallery, Altrincham (UK)
2018
Corduroy Part 2, neo:gallery, Greater Manchester (UK)
2017
Corduroy Part 1 - Are we in progress?, Studio 44 / ABF Huset, Stockholm (SE)
Cucumbers & Lube, Studio 44, Stockholm (SE)
This is Hardcore, PAPER Gallery, Manchester (UK)
2016
Bethan Hamilton: Experiments in Etching, Studio 44, Stockholm (SE)
Spektakel, Studio 44, Stockholm (SE)
2015
ProCreate Project, Women's Art Library, London (UK)
Charity Fundraiser Exhibition Home-Start Moss, Moss Library, Moss (NO)
20:20 Print Exchange 2014, Hot Bed Press, Touring Exhibition (UK)
A Rational Reaction, Dysfunction, Strathaven (UK)
2014
In Time, Over Time, neo:gallery22, Greater Manchester (UK)
WCA Reunion, Galeria-Atelier Metamorfose, Porto (PT)
Snow in Summer, Gotham Studios, Perth (AUS)
Bethan Hamilton Artist in Residence, The Bluecoat, Liverpool (UK)
20:20 Print Exchange 2013, Hot Bed Press, Touring Exhibition (UK)
PAPER #12: Party Favours, PAPER Gallery, Manchester (UK)
2013
neo:presents, neo:gallery22, Greater Manchester (UK)
PAPER#10: End of the Line, PAPER Gallery, Manchester (UK)
Through, neo:gallery22, Greater Manchester (UK)
2012
PAPER#3, PAPER Gallery, Manchester (UK)
Future Perfect, neo:gallery22, Bolton (UK)
NONE, Free For Arts Festival 2012, Manchester (UK)
Access All Areas, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
PAPER Gallery Launch, PAPER Gallery, Manchester (UK)
60 Drawings, Bankley Gallery, Manchester (UK)
self:destruct, Broadstone Mill, Stockport (UK)
2011
Manchester Artists Bonfire, Islington Mill, Salford (UK)
Coleoptera, The Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton & Hove (UK)
Little Benefits, Cultivate Vyner Street, London (UK)
2010
Blue Tigers, Wymer Street, Norwich (UK)
2009
Young Talent 2009, Broadstone Mill, Stockport (UK)
Intersections, The Nunnery, London (UK)
2008
Charmeuse: Ladyfest 2008, Zion Arts Centre, Manchester (UK)
2007
Hopwood Hall 2005 Alumni, Hopwood Hall College, Rochdale (UK)
Carnival, University of Salford (UK)
The Devil Made Me Do It, Bankley Gallery, Manchester (UK)
Publications & Archives
Dr Takht-Keshian, F. 2025, Cista Arts Self-Portrait (Visual Arts Show), Self Published, UK.
Kimber, N.A. & Donoghue-Stanford, K.E. 2024, Forget-Me-Not Press Issue #7: Part 2 - Divine [Online]
Dr Takht-Keshian, F. 2024, Cista Arts Metamorphosis: Exploring Transformation Through Art, Self Published, UK.
Bethan Hamilton, Spilt Milk Gallery Archive [Online]
Watkinson, L. 2023, Noir SU4IP Artist Books, Self Published, UK.
Brantås, J. 2023, Studio44 2003 - 2021, Self Published, SE.
Bethan Hamilton, Procreate Project Archive [Online]
VanZeipel, V. 2021, Weigh Anchor Tarot Spread Book, Self Published, US.
Bradbury, N. 2020, “What does the future hold? Revisiting the Tarot deck in contemporary art” The Fourdrinier [Online]
“Bethan Hamilton: Five artworks that have shaped my practice” The Fourdrinier, 2020 [Online]
Kingston, S. 2018, “Salford Neo Artist Exhibits at Top Swedish Exchange Show in Bolton” Salford Star [Online]
"In Conversation: Bethan Hamilton" We Are OCA, 2016 [Online]
Art Copenhagen 2015 Catalogue
Procreate Project Archive, Women’s Art Library, London (UK), 2015
"Bethan Hamilton" Wall Street International Magazine, 2014 [Online]
neo:printprize 2012 Catalogue
neo:artprize 2012 Catalogue