Pro tem is Tom Hammick’s third solo painting exhibition at The Paul Kane Gallery and celebrates a ten year association with the Gallery.
This year Tom also has two museum shows scheduled, one at Corner Brook Canada, a painting and print exhibition curated by Gordon Laurin and the second is at the Salisbury Museum, Wiltshire
Hammick’s recent subject matter is partly autobiographical in its depiction of garden and landscape around his home in East Sussex in the UK, and party universal as it broadens to encompass one of the most consistent themes in painting in its investigation of the human relationship to place and space.
Initiated by the two large-scale images in this exhibition :Two Beds and Three Beds, paintings of members of his family in the haven of their garden, the new works are fragments of an observed world that are transformed and made emblematic.This recurrent motif of mother and child, bending over a vegetable patch or playing under a blossom tree, hints at the easy intimacy of shared activity. Figures are also shown in fields, at the thresholds of their dwellings/homesteads, standing outside cabins in clearings made in the woods, set against a landscape that seems to continue far across the edge of the picture plane.
The emotional complexity of these paintings is conveyed as much by
colour as by the imagery. Hammick’s palette has darkened and deepened, the new work gives rise to startling conjunctions of reds, oranges and pinks, thunderous mauves and purples and acidic greens and blues. This is an uneasy palette, brooding and charged, like a sky filling before a storm.
Hammick’s paintings are pictures of everyday moments, common
to each of us, transformed through the process of painting into images
that speak of what it is to be human.
TOM HAMMICK CIRRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
1982-85: University of Manchester, BA Hons Art History
1987-90: Camberwell College of Art, BA Hons Fine Art – 1st Class
1990-92: Camberwell College of Art, MA Printmaking
SOLO SHOWS
1992: New Work, Eton College, Eton
1993: Star Gallery, Lewes, Sussex
1995: Breathing Again, Eagle Gallery, London
1996: Arizona Road Series and New Work, Redfern Gallery, London, Rye Art Gallery, Sussex
1997: New Paintings, Redfern Gallery, London.
Ballinglen Paintings, Duncan Cargill, London
1998: The Beach (prints), Eagle Gallery, London
Geography (new paintings), Eagle Gallery, London
Etchings, Drypoints and Monoprints, Redfern Gallery, London
New Paintings, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
New Work, Star Gallery, Lewes, Sussex
1999: Glyndebourne Opera House. New Prints and Paintings Pelleas & Melissande and Flight and new tapestries
New Tapestries: Redfern Gallery
New Work, Paintings and Prints, Deutche Bank, September-Jan, 2000
Hoxton Music Festival: New Prints for Opera, Pelleas and Flight
The Groucho Club: New Tapestries
2000: New Paintings and Prints, Redfern Gallery, London
Paintings, Tapestries and Prints, A Retrospective, Etc. Gallery, Soho 601, London
The Surfer Paintings: The Eagle Gallery hosting at 35 Bethnal Green Road, London E2
2001: Atlantic Provinces, Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin
New Work, Studio 21 Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Star Gallery Surfer Paintings and Prints
OC&C Strategy Consultants, Surfers and the Martha Paintings
2002: Itra, London, Tapestries
Kings Gallery, Lewes, View from the Shore
2003: Homeland, New Paintings at the Eagle Gallery, London
New Monumental Woodcuts and Lithographs, Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton, London
Paintings and Woodcuts, Studio 21 Fine Art, Halifax, Canada
2004: Kings, Lewes, New Paintings
2005: Project Space, London Art Fair, 1 month of painting, January
Travels through Newfoundland, New Paintings, The Eagle Gallery Oct to Nov
Studio 21 Fine Art: Travel, New Work, April 22 to May 13th, 2005
Chipping Camden Gallery, New Work, May to June
Stewart Zimmer Gallery, Arundel, May 2005
Flowers East Gallery, New Graphic Work, February 2005
An exhibition of Paintings and Prints since 2002 at The Hospital, Covent Garden, London, Sept to Dec
Picture of the Month at Clifford Chance, August to September 2005
2006:Plural, The Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2007: Camden Gallery, Glos.
Page and Strange, Canada
Chalk Hill Fine Art
2008 Charleston
Holding The Eagle Gallery
GROUP SHOWS
1989: Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1990: Fresh Art, Islington, London
Contemporary View, Royal College of Art, London
1991: Redfern Gallery, London
1992: Redfern Gallery, London
1993: One Oxford Street Gallery, Belfast, Ireland.
Four Contemporary Printmakers, Redfern Gallery, London
1994: Gilchrist Fisher Memorial Prize, Cadogan Contemporary, London.
Contemporary European Printmakers, London Print Workshop, East West Gallery London.
Young Collectables, Rye Art Gallery, Sussex.
Artichoke Print Workshop, London.
Shelf Life, Eagle Gallery, London.
Art Frankfurt with the Eagle Gallery.
Tapestries at Glyndebourne, 2003 Season.
The Figure in Contemporary Print, Angela Flowers Gallery, Kingsland Road, London.
Toronto International Art Fair/Studio 21 Fine Art, Nov 14-17.
2004: Hunting Prize, 2004, TCA, London.
Art 2004, The Eagle Gallery.
Originals ’04, The Mall, London.
Works on Paper with John Dewe Matthews, Peter Rasmussen, Charlotte Hodes.
Glyndebourne, New Monoprints and Paintings.
Works on paper by Gallery Artists, The Eagle Gallery, London.
Dacs 20th at the Mall Gallery.
Royal Academy Summer Show.
Star Gallery, Lewes, Hanging with the Coopers.
Chelsea Art Fair/Jagged Art.
20/21 British Art, Royal College with Wilson Stephens Fine Art.
Toronto Art Fair/Studio 21 Fine Art.
New York Print Fair with Sophie Hall.
Homes and Gardens Stand, Decorex Interiors Fair with Lucy Elworthy.
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004, London/ On tour to Pittville Gallery, University of Gloucestershire, Byart, Cardiff
2005: Jerwood Drawing Prize onj tour to mac, Birmingham, EICH Gallery/Lincoln University & The Lowry, Salford.
Rosanna Wilson Stephens Fine Art at Art 05.
The Hunting Prize, 2005, RCA, London.
Originals 05, The Mall Galleries.
Print Works at the Campden Gallery with selected artists from Marlborough and the Eagle.
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
New Prints, 2005, Chosen by Kiki Smith, International Print Centre, New York NYC.
New York Print Fair with Flowers East.
Flowers New York, December to January 2005. Contemporary British Printmaking.
2006: Eagle Gallery at Art 06, London.
Eagle Gallery at the Madrid Art Fair
COMPETITIONS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
1989: Selected for the Spectator Award Exhibition
1990: Selected for Contemporary View, Royal College of Art, London
1993: Selected for the Gilchrist Fisher Memorial Travel Fellowship.
South East Arts, Artists in Schools Project, High Down Special Needs School, Worthing
1994: Artist in Residence on the MV Radnes from Avonmouth to the Arctic.
South East Arts, Reavel Award to Yukon and Alaska
1995: Nat West Young Artists Award-~Finalist
1996: Ballinglen Arts Foundation Residency Award, Ireland.
Lowick House Print Workshop Residency, Cumbria
1997: Mc2 Print Exhibition, Norwich
1998: Winston Churchill Fellowship
1999: Robert Fraser Award
2000: Selected for the Cheltenham Drawing Competition
2001: Selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize
2002: Arts Council, Southern and South East Arts: Major Development Award for monumental woodcuts, made at Hope Sufferance Studio, London.
Selected for Drawing for All, Gainsborough’s House Drawing Open
2003: Joint Winner of the Sussex Open ‘03
2004: Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004, 3rd Prize-winner
2005: Residency to Newfoundland and Labrador, through the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador and support from the Canada Council,
with a placement at the St. Michael’s Print workshop in St. John’s.
The RE Award.
The Royal Academy London Print Fair Prize, Royal Academy Summer Show
Public and Corporate Collections include:
Arts Council of Northern Ireland; British Museum (Collection of Prints and Drawings); Yale Centre for British Art, U.S.A.; De Beers, London; British Copyright Council;
Deutsche Bank; Arthur Anderson PLC; British Midland; BZW Bank, London; The Conquest Hospital, Hastings; Chelsea and Westminster Hospital ; The Royal London Hospital;
St.Mary’s University, Nova Scotia; Clifford Chance, London; Dorchester Hospital
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