TOM HAMMICK

Tom Hammick says "My practice as a painter is fed by printmaking. Along with the use of newspaper and magazine cuttings, photographs, video stills and poetry: Drawing in my pocket book from everyday experiences is a key element to underpinning both these disciplines. I try to push a painting to a stage where I am able to drop the use of my original source material and proceed to work in response to what is happening on the canvas. The painting is usually finished when it doesn't need me anymore, and can survive on its own and is the painterly equivalent to the original experience or vision."

Tom Hammick (b. 1963 in Tidworth, UK) studied at Manchester University (1982-85), and Camberwell School of Art, London (1987-92). He received a Winston Churchill Fellowship (1998), a Robert Fraser Award (1999) and was a prizewinner in The Sussex Open (2003) and also the Jerwood Prize in 2004.

He was Artist in Residence on MV. Radnes, to the Artic Sea (1995); O.T. Unit, Royal London Hospital (1999) and Ballenglen Arts Foundation (1996); more recently at Glyndebourne in 2007 and Charleston in 2008.

His solo shows include Breathing Again, The Eagle Gallery, London (1994); Geography, The Eagle Gallery, London (1998); The Redfern Gallery, London (1995,1997,2000); Atlantic Provinces, Paul Kane, Dublin, Ireland and Studio 21, N.S. Canada (2001); and Homeland, The Eagle Gallery, London (2003).

Selected group exhibitions include The Hunting Prize, Royal College of Art, London (1997,2002,2003,2004); Jerwood Drawing Prize (2000, 2001, 2004); Drawing Open, Gainsborough’s House (2002); Undercurrents, with Andrzej Jackowski and Matthew Burrows, The Eagle Gallery, London (2000); The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Cheltenham and tour (2001, 2002); Drawing Open, Gainsborough’s House (2002); and The Figure in Contemporary Print, Flowers East, London (2003).

His work is held in various public and private collections worldwide, including The British Museum, London; Yale Centre for British Art, Deutsche Bank; De Beers; ING Barings; Arthur Anderson; British Arts Council and The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

Tom lives and works in East Sussex, UK and Nova Scotia, Canada.