AWAY FROM THE NOISE
ANNIE HAMILTON
IT'S ALL CREATIVE ART...
My name is Annie Hamilton and I'm a musician, artist and designer based in Sydney, Australia. I've just released my debut album, "the future is here but it feels kinda like the past", and I also run my own eponymous clothing label. I've spent the last few years chipping away at both music and fashion after launching both projects in 2017 following a stint in Iceland as an artistin-residence. I have a pretty DIY approach
to creativity - I love making things, whether that be music, clothes, art, photographs, food... to me it is all the same creative energy going into whatever project I'm working on. Since I was a kid, I've always loved sewing and making myself weird costumes - giant fairy wings, elaborate headpieces - give me any excuse to make a costume and I will always go way over the top. As my music has evolved over the last couple of years, I've started making more extravagant outfits and costumes for my videos and live shows. Throughout the course of writing the album, I realised that bats were starting to emerge as a bit of a recurring image, weaving their way through the songs... This wasn't really intentional - I 26
tend to write as a way of navigating, documenting and processing my experiences, and I guess I just happened to have a lot of experiences with bats over the last two years, as bizarre as that sounds. Every night at sunset, thousands of fruit bats fly over my house on their nightly ritual, so my nightly ritual became going outside at dusk to sit and watch them fly over.
