Tom Hammick
(1963–)
Tom Hammick
1963–
Tom Hammick (1963– ) is a British painter and printmaker whose body of work is informed by his passions for poetry, music, film, the environment, and his deepest concerns around themes of love, loss, and way of life around climate change. His work often depicts nature, space, and landscape. His subject also includes human figures in various situations set over the backdrop of the ocean or the wild; houses, animals, and trees are all incorporated in his colorful work.
Hammick was born in Wiltshire, UK. In 1985, he attended the University of Manchester, where he studied art history, and later the Camberwell College of Art and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, where he studied painting. Hammick has an MA in Printmaking from Camberwell and taught painting and printmaking at the University of Brighton for many years. He now lives and works in London. Hammick is represented by Lyndsey Ingram Gallery in London and Galerie Boisserée in Cologne.
n 2016 he was the recipient of the V&A Prize at the International Print Biennale. Hammick’s works are held in many public and private collections, including the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Deutsche Bank, Yale Center for British Art, and The Library of Congress, Washington. Hammick’s recent solo exhibitions include My Sister’s Garden, 2022, and Nightfire, 2020, at Lyndsey Ingram Gallery. In 2020, he collaborated with designer Paul Smith on a series of limited-edition prints.
