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. Tom 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.