Tom Hammick | |
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Born | Tom Hammick 6 September 1963 Wiltshire |
Nationality | British |
Education | Art History The University of Manchester, MA in Printmaking from Camberwell College of Art and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design |
Known for | Painting and Printmaking |
Website | https://tomhammick.com |
Tom Hammick (born 1963) is painter and a printmaker working in London. [1] [2] [3] He was Glyndebourne's Associate Artist during the 2021 and 2022 festivals. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Hammick's mother, Georgina Hammick, was a poet and novelist, [8] and his father, Charles Hammick, was a soldier turned bookseller. [9] They both founded Hammicks Bookshops in 1968 in Farnham, Surrey. [10] [11] [12]
Hammick graduated with a degree in Art History at the University of Manchester and briefly worked as a Stonemason, initially a labourer on Salisbury Cathedral in 1985 followed by two years as a trainee builder with Ian Constantinedes and St Blaise in Dorset and Somerset. [13] He went back to study Fine Art and an MA in Printmaking from Camberwell College of Art and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada. [14] [15] [16]
Hammick taught Fine Art (Painting and Printmaking) at Bucks Chilterns University College [14] [17] from 1998 to 2005 and then Fine Art and Printmaking at The University of Brighton until 2019. [18] [19] He also taught Studio Painting for three summer terms at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design between 1998 and 2002.
In 2014, he was appointed by the English National Opera as the first artist-in-residence. [20] In 2015, artist Julian Bell wrote a book to survey the work of Hammick titled Tom Hammick Wall, Window, World published by Lund Humphries. [21] [22]
In 2017 he curated Towards Night, a major exhibition exploring the nocturnal through paintings, prints and drawings by over sixty artists at Towner Art Gallery. [23] [24] [25] His works are held in many major public and private collections, including the British Museum, [26] Victoria and Albert Museum, [27] Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Yale Center for British Art [28] and The Library of Congress, [29] Washington DC. [30]
His work has inspired fashion designers like Louisa Ballou [31] [32] and a collaboration on an exhibition at the London store of designer Paul Smith. [33] [6]
My Sister's Garden, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, London, 2022 [34] [35] [36]
Night Paintings and Woodcuts, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole Wyoming, 2022 [37] [38]
Nightfire, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery London, 2020 [39] [40] [41] [42]
Lunar Voyage, United Kingdom, United States and Canada, 2017 - 2019. [43] [44] [45] [46] Art critic Donald Kuspit described it as "a series of seventeen exquisitely crafted, visionary woodcuts." [47]
Night Animals, New Paintings, Flowers Cork Street, 2019 [48] [49]
Night Sky, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London, 2013 [50] [51] [52]
The Moon, National Maritime Museum, London May 2019 to February 2020 [53] [54] [55]
NHS at 70, 7 selected artists with Jeremy Deller, Peter Blake, Elizabeth Magill, Chris Orr, Mona Hartoum, David Mach. [56] [57] [58] [59]
In 2016 he was the recipient of the V&A Prize at the International Print Biennale. [60] [61]
Shortlisted for both the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize and The Threadneedle Prize, 2012. [62] [63]
Winner of Nexus Art on Transport Commission Prize, 2009 [64]
The RA London Print Fair Prize, Royal Academy Summer Show, 2005 [65]
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004, Prize-winner [66] [67] [68]
Hammick's woodcuts, made with wood gathered from Wordsworth's garden of Alfoxden, [69] were published alongside the text of author Adam Nicholson's book The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels published by HarperCollins in 2019. [70] [71]
His artwork was on the cover of Granta 154: I've Been Away for a While. [72] [73]
Lunar Voyage, published by Flowers East, 2018 [74] [75]
Nightfire by Tom Hammick published by Lyndsey Ingram, 2020 [76]
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