Tom Hammick

Tom Hammick is a British artist born in 1963. His work is informed by a passion for poetry, music, film, the environment and concerns of love and loss and the human condition around climate change.  

His imagery through drawing, is brought together in painting and printmaking. Each discipline feeds the other and he divides his time between painting in Peckham Rye and making woodcuts, etchings and monotypes in his purpose-designed print studio in Deptford, London. 

Hammick studied Art History at the University of Manchester and later Fine Art Painting at Camberwell College of Art and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada. He has an MA in Printmaking, also from Camberwell, and taught Fine Art Painting and Printmaking for many years at the University of Brighton. Between watching the mercurial fortunes of his beloved Arsenal, playing squash and biking to and from work, his diverse practice now takes up all his time.

In 2016 he was the recipient of the V&A Prize at the International Print Biennale in Newcastle. He is currently Associate Artist at Glyndebourne Opera (2019-2021). In 2021 he will take up a postponed Albers Foundation Residency in The States. His works are held in major public collections, including the British Museum, Yale, Biblioteque National France, Library of Congress, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.