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Tom Hammick
Born
Thomas Henry Heyman St. Vincent Hammick

6 September 1963
Tidworth, Wiltshire, England
NationalityBritish
EducationWest Downs School
Eton College
Art History and Medieval History The University of Manchester
BFA and an MA in Printmaking from Camberwell College of Art
Known forPainting and Printmaking
Websitehttps://tomhammick.com

Thomas Henry Heyman St. Vincent Hammick (born 1963) is a painter, printmaker and former teacher working in London.[1][2][3][4] He was Glyndebourne's Associate Artist during the 2021 and 2022 festivals.[5][6][7][8]

Early life

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Hammick's mother, Georgina Hammick (24 May 1939 – 8 January 2023), was a poet and novelist,[9] and his father, Major Charles Cyril Willmott Hammick (24 October 1927 – 1 February 1990), was a senior officer in the Grenadier Guards, Parachute Regiment and then the Trucial Oman Scouts, later becoming a bookseller.[1][10] They both founded Hammicks Bookshops in 1968 in Farnham, Surrey.[11][12][13]

Hammick's second great-grandfather was Sir St Vincent Love Hammick, 2nd Baronet (1806–1888) of the Hammick Baronetcy, of Cavendish Square, London. His great-grandfather was Sir Murray Love Hammick KCSI CIE (11 May 1854 – 4 March 1936)[1]

Hammick attended the preparatory school West Downs School in Winchester, followed by the elite private school Eton College in Berkshire alongside Jay Jopling, Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer and James Ogilvy.[14]

Hammick graduated with a degree in Art History and Medieval History from the University of Manchester (1982–85) and briefly worked as a Stonemason, initially a labourer on Salisbury Cathedral in 1985 followed by two years as a trainee builder with Ian Constantinides and his company St Blaise, in Dorset and Somerset.[15] He went back to study a BA Fine Art (1987–90) and an MA in Printmaking from Camberwell College of Art (1990–92).[16] Hammick was an exchange student with Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada in 1989.[16][17][18][19]

Career

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Upon completing his masters study in 1992, Hammick was appointed acting head of painting and drawing at Eton College, where he would have his first solo exhibition the same year.[20] He then taught Fine Art (Painting and Printmaking) at Bucks Chilterns University College[17][21] from 1998 to 2005 and then Fine Art and Printmaking at The University of Brighton until 2019.[22][23] He also taught Studio Painting for three summer terms at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design between 1998 and 2002.

In 2014, he was appointed by the English National Opera as the first artist-in-residence.[24] In 2015, artist Julian Bell wrote a book to survey the work of Hammick titled Tom Hammick Wall, Window, World published by Lund Humphries.[25][26]

In 2017 he curated Towards Night, a major exhibition exploring the nocturnal through paintings, prints and drawings by over sixty artists at Towner Art Gallery.[27][28][29]

His works are held in many major public and private collections, including Eton College,[30] British Museum,[31] Victoria and Albert Museum,[32] Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Yale Center for British Art[33] and The Library of Congress,[34] Washington DC.[35]

His work has inspired fashion designers like Louisa Ballou[36][37] and a collaboration on an exhibition at the London store of designer Paul Smith.[38][7]

Selected solo exhibitions

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My Sister's Garden, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, London, 2022[39][40][41]

Night Paintings and Woodcuts, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 2022[42][43]

Nightfire, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery London, 2020[44][45][46][47]

Lunar Voyage, United Kingdom, United States and Canada, 2017–2019.[48][49][50][51] Art critic Donald Kuspit described it as "a series of seventeen exquisitely crafted, visionary woodcuts."[52]

Night Animals, New Paintings, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, 2019[53][54]

Night Sky, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London, 2013[55][56][57]

New Work, Eton College, Eton, 1992[16]

Tom Hammick working in his studio

Selected group exhibitions

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The Moon, National Maritime Museum, London May 2019 to February 2020[58][59][60]

NHS at 70, Seven selected artists with Jeremy Deller, Peter Blake, Elizabeth Magill, Chris Orr, Mona Hartoum, David Mach.[61][62][63][64]

Selected awards

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In 2016 he was the recipient of the V&A Prize at the International Print Biennale, Newcastle.[65][66]

Shortlisted for both the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize and The Threadneedle Prize, 2012.[67][68]

Winner of Nexus Art on Transport Commission Prize, 2009[69]

The RA London Print Fair Prize, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2005[70]

Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004, Prize-winner[71][72][73]

Selected publications

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Hammick's woodcuts, made with wood gathered from Wordsworth's garden of Alfoxden,[74] were published alongside the text of author Adam Nicolson's book The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels published by HarperCollins in 2019.[75][76]

His artwork was on the cover of Granta 154: I've Been Away for a While.[77][78]

Lunar Voyage, published by Flowers East, 2018[79][80]

Nightfire by Tom Hammick published by Lyndsey Ingram, 2020[81]

References

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  2. ^ "Painting through the night with Tom Hammick". Apollo Magazine. 12 October 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  3. ^ Hicks, Alistair; Findlay, Mary; Hütte, Friedhelm (2001). Art Works: British and German Contemporary Art 1960-2000. Merrell Publishers. ISBN 978-1-85894-118-9.
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  32. ^ Museum, Victoria and Albert. "Search Results | V&A Explore the Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  33. ^ "Lido / etchings Tom Hammick ; poems Maureen Duffy. - YCBA Collections Search". collections.britishart.yale.edu. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  34. ^ Blood, Katherine. "Research Guides: National Exhibition of Prints (1943–1977) at the Library of Congress: Background: Joseph Pennell & the Exhibition". guides.loc.gov. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
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  38. ^ "'Miles To Go Before I Sleep' by Tom Hammick". www.paulsmith.com. Archived from the original on 2 August 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
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  80. ^ Hammick, Tom (18 April 2018). Lunar Voyage. Flowers East. ISBN 978-1-5272-1439-2.
  81. ^ Hills, Emma; Hammick, Tom (2020). Tom Hammick: Nightfire. Lyndsey Ingram. ISBN 978-1-5272-1798-0.
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