Tom Hammick
Homeland
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Tom Hammick’s paintings have been described as the physical creation of spaces for feeling. His increasing reputation as a painter of lyrical, figurative images was consolidated by this body of work shown here, and at the Eagle Gallery. Whether depicting a woman in a gallery, figures in a wood, or the reverie of a child in a party dress, Hammick’s paintings evoke emotional states.
The images are imbued with a sense of looking back at earlier paintings, with echoes of Munch’s The Voice, Seurat’s Bathers and Masaccio’s Healing the Cripple. These works remain distinctly contemporary, formed through a complex interweaving of references, some literal, others psychological.
Hammick’s past solo exhibitions included The Redfern Gallery, London; Deutsche Bank AG, London; The Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin; and Studio 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has received a number of awards, including the Ballinglen Arts Foundation Residency, a Winston Churchill Fellowship, and a Southern & South Eastern Arts Award.