was born in Toronto in 1968, and grew up in the Beaches in the east end of the city. She studied art at the Ontario College of Art and Design and Concordia University in Montreal. In 1995, she started her graduate thesis piece and made Symmetry Unlimited. This installation incorporated salvaged construction materials, styrofoam, and salt. The installation was made to relate to the immediate architecture, in this case, the main gallery of the graduate studies area in the downtown campus of the school. The work told the story of symbiotic relationships, and the power struggle between molecules in super-saturated solutions, bunkers and art in crates, and students and teachers in the institution. Her subsequent installations use materials in similar ways to explore narratives, and relationships of people and things with space.

The found objects Hamilton uses in most of her works are commonplace. A sense of matter-of-fact approach of how they are organized and put together in installation informs the style of the work. The installations often look unfinished and in-progress or put together in haste. By doing this Hamilton hopes to reinvest the objects with a magic and invite the viewer to experience them according to their own terms, and in their own right."By making them seem assembled in backyard garages I hope to let people be part of the process, and to participate. I want the viewer to feel in charge, that they too could make these things if they wanted."

Hamilton studied film making as well as sculpture. The work in installation often takes on a narrative structure, and can be seen to have a sense of pacing and tempo, just as it would if were edits in a film. Although, in viewing the installations one has to walk around and through them. No single vantage point tells the entire story.

Hamilton moved Regina, Saskatchewan in 1997 to be artist in residence and develop and teach the Intermedia programme at the university there. In 1999 she went to Caracas Venezuela to teach middle school for a year, at which time she discovered the wonders of open-water diving. She has done a pile of art residencies, the most recent one being at the Media Centre in Huddersfield England. She is an active web log (blog) writer, and has recently turned towards writing as a main way in which to develop her art installations.

Hamilton is making long range plans to one day travel to the base camp at Everest, with her partner Chris. She lives and works in Regina, Saskatchewan with him and their two cats. She has an soft spot for images of polar bears (and the real thing, though she has never seen one in the wild), and walking. She likes to read Rumi.