Exhibitions

James Hamilton has been guest curator of some important recent Turner exhibitions. He has been guest curator of

• Turner and the Scientists
  (Tate Gallery 1998),
• Turner: The Late Seascapes
  (Clark Art Institute, Williamstown and touring to Manchester and Glasgow; Catalogue: Yale University Press, 2003)
• Turner’s Britain
  (Gas Hall, Birmingham; Catalogue: Merrell Publications, 2003).

Turner and Italy

• Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 16 November 2008- 22 February 2009
  
• National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 26 March – 7 June 2009
  

Volcano

• Compton Verney, Warwickshire, 2010
  

As Curator of Art at Portsmouth, Wakefield and Sheffield, and latterly as Director of the Yorkshire Contemporary Art Group in Leeds, James Hamilton organised dozens of exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s, including:

• Wilhelm Lehmbruck 1881-1919: Sculpture, Painting, Graphic Work
  On loan from the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg (Portsmouth, 1974)
• Arthur Rackham 1867-1939: Illustrations, Drawings and Watercolours (Sheffield, 1980)
• Edmund Dulac 1882-1953: Illustrator and Designer (Sheffield, 1982)
• 25 from 51 – Paintings from the Festival of Britain (Sheffield, 1978)
• Artist in Industry (Sheffield, 1983)
• The Danish Show: Paintings (Yorkshire Contemporary Art Group, in conjunction with the Danish Ministry of Culture, 1986/87)
• Tradition and Innovation in Printmaking Today: A New Collection of Prints for Rank Xerox (Yorkshire Contemporary Art Group, 1986)
• New Art in Yorkshire (Yorkshire Contemporary Art Group, 1987)
• Yorkshire Contemporary Art Group: Report 1986