Tom Hammick: Holkham

TOM HAMMICK (1963-)

Hammick is a painter, printmaker and former teacher working in London. Upon completing his master’s study in 1992, Hammick was appointed acting head of painting and drawing at Eton College, where he held his first solo exhibition the same year.

He then taught Fine Art (Painting and Printmaking) at Bucks Chilterns University College from 1998 to 2005 and Fine Art and Printmaking at The University of Brighton until 2019. 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. In 2015, artist Julian Bell wrote a book surveying Hammick’s work titled Tom Hammick: Wall, Window, World published by Lund Humphries. 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.

His works are held in numerous major public and private collections, including Eton College, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Yale Center for British Art, and The Library of Congress, Washington DC.