Tom Hammick (b. 1963) is an artist living and working in London. He studied art history at the University of Manchester and later fine painting at Camberwell College of Art and NSCAD, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada. He has an MA in Printmaking, also from Camberwell, and until recently taught Fine Art Painting and Printmaking for many years at the University of Brighton. Hammick is the proud father of three grown children as well as a lover of music, theater, film, opera and poetry, all of which informs his work. Hammick's work is held in various public and private collections worldwide, including the British Museum, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, U.K.; Towner Eastbourne, U.K.; Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; New York Public Library, NY; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Bibiothèque National de France, Paris; and The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Hammick was artist-in-residence at Glyndebourne from 2018-2020 and was selected to join the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in New Haven, CT as artist-in-residence in 2024.
Tom Hammick
Tom Hammick's work probes the human condition in pulsating color, pushing the materiality of each medium into a contemplative narrative. There is an undeniable oscillation between the quietude of the subject matter-a lone figure on the beach, three figures tending a garden-and the artist's distinctly exuberant palette. We as viewers are left with an electrified stillness.
Moving in and out of the domestic sphere, Hammick captures humans and their domiciles with expressive tenderness. "I suppose as a painter I'm interested in the poetic connection with home, and things being terrestrial (versus extraterrestrial)," the artist says. He continues, "You know, I hope [the paintings are] about what it's like to be human… Whether it's a woman going out to her garden, or two women trying to build shelter, or a man, I suppose me, outside sort of a metaphor of my house or flat or studio, and the color of the night. All these figures kind of going around their daily life, nightly life, almost unaware of, or definitely unaware of, us watching them."
Hammick Editions is the imprint and publishing name representing Tom Hammick's editioned prints. All prints represented here, are individually hand-made by the artist in small editions. All images are drawn and cut on the plates by the artist, assisted by the team in his studio, be they relief or intaglio processes. When an image has variations within the edition (an edition variable or EV) we have selected prints so that subtle changes can be compared.