BIOGRAPHY
Hamish has worked with wood for over thirty years, from designing and making furniture to building a timber framed house in the far north of Norway and carving a fairy door for the City of Knox in Victoria . He has collaborated with other artists in a number of sculpture projects, and mentored adults and children in the community arts activities and festivals of Dandenong, Knox, Warburton, Williamstown and Doncaster and Templestowe.

Every project offers new challenges and pleasures and working frequently with found or recycled materials adds to those experiences. His work is often a reaction to either the materials he is working with or a design dilemma. Many of his pieces incorporate different woods and recycled materials, often accenting particular aspects of the design with a different timber.

Having a keen interest in the individual characteristics and unique beauty of each piece of timber, Hamish cuts and dries most of the timber he uses himself. The timber takes a minimum of two years to dry and then requires extensive machining. He obtains his timber from unwanted suburban trees and is always on the lookout for appropriate trees that have been cut down.

He is currently employed by Melbourne University's Department of Architecture and Building as Workshop Manager and part time instructor in fine furniture design and construction, timber joinery and building construction. Hamish has been President of both the Council of Victorian Woodwork Clubs and the Victorian Woodworkers Association and retains a continuing interest and involvement in their activities. In 2004 he co-ordinated a large woodworking exhibition, Woodworks 2004, on behalf of the Victorian Woodworkers Association, at the newly refurbished Meatmarket Arts Centre in North Melbourne. Writing occasional articles for woodworking magazines is a relatively new additional occupation.

Hamish's works are held in collections in Australia , England , Norway and the U.S.A. He has exhibited in many group and juried shows at the RMIT Gallery, Craft Victoria's Gallery, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Eltham Wiregrass Gallery, Detail Contemporary Furniture Gallery, Qdos Gallery, Doncaster/Manningham Gallery and the Meat Market Craft Centre/Metro!

Born: Sydney, Australia

EXHIBITIONS:

Victorian Woodworkers Association annual exhibitions at Meatmarket Craft Centre and Manningham Art Gallery since late 1980s
Warburton Winterfest for first several years early 1990's.
Trees, Ladders, with John Ryrie and Alex Selenitsch, Detail Contemporary Design, North Melbourne, Victoria 1997
Goodbye Kind World, Storey Hall at R.M.I.T.1999
Second Wind, Craft Victoria Gallery, Melbourne Victoria, 2000
Create from a Crate, Federation Square and Meat Market Arts Centre, Melbourne Victoria. 2003 & 2005
Touch Wood, Meatmarket Arts Centre, North Melbourne Victoria. 2004
Overyears, with David Pringle, Gardiner Art Gallery, Auburn Victoria. 2005.
Doozy Wooden Hangers, with David Pringle, Intrude Art Gallery, Malvern Victoria. 2006

COLLECTIONS

PUBLICATIONS

1995 Trees, Ladders, (with Alex Selenitsch and John Ryrie), Hybrid Production

Australian Woodworker
No. 92 2000: Council of Victorian Woodwork Clubs Festival by Hamish Hill
No. 107 2003: 2002 Orbost Wood Design Exhibition by Hamish Hill

Australian Wood Review
No. 41 2003: Better biscuit joinery , by Hamish Hill
No. 42 2004: Crate exhibition , by Hamish Hill

The University of Melbourne - UniNews - 4 February, 2002: Monumental Effort

Contact:
Hamish Hill
Designer and Maker of Wooden Objects
113 Shaftsbury Street
Coburg Victoria 3058 Australia

Phone: 03 8344 7884 Mob: 0428 577 878
Email: Hamish Hill