Hamish Gane worked as a lighting technician/designer in London for ten years with companies including the Royal Opera House and Channel 4 Television before moving to Wales to study photography in 1997. Having attained a first class honours at BA and an MA with distinction he is currently writing his PhD - A Pensive Sadness: Photography and Melancholy in the Digital Age.

Soon after graduating with his first degree in 2000, Hamish was asked to be represented by BritArt.com and his work was exhibited and sold internationally through them until 2005. He has continued to exhibit widely in a number of solo and group shows. He began teaching on the Art Foundation course at Swansea Metropolitan University in 2001 whilst studying for his master's degree. He now lectures full time and was recently appointed Programme Director for BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts.

Research interests include relationship between analogue and digital photography and photographic indexicality; photography, family and memory; and the photographic medium's historical relationship to other fine art practice and its present relationship to the wider postmodern visual culture.

Hamish Gane - Apron, solo show, Mission Gallery, Swansea, Sept - Nov 2005
National Eisteddfod of Wales, Fine Art Exhibition, 2004 and 2006
Paradise, group show, several sites across Cardiff, Sept - Oct 2006
Nascent Opus, group show, Dynevor Centre for Art and Design, Swansea, 2007
Dark Victory, group show, Tactile Bosch Gallery, Cardiff, Nov 2007