Tom Hammick

Homeland

19 March - 18 April 2003

Tom Hammicks paintings have been described as the physical creation of spaces for feeling and his increasing reputation as a painter of lyrical, figurative images is consolidated by this body of work shown here, and at the Eagle Galley. Whether a woman in a gallery, figures in a wood, or the reverie of a little girl in her party dress, Hammicks paintings are depictions of emotional states. The images are imbued with the sense of looking back at older paintings and echoes of Munch's The Voice, Seurat's Bathers, Masaccio's Healing the Cripple are apparent, but these works are current and the result of a complex interweaving of references, some literal, others psychological.

Hammick's past solo exhibitions include The Redfern Gallery, London; Deutsche Bank AG, London; The Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin and Studio 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has been the recipient of a number of awards including the Ballinglen Arts Foundation Residency, a Winston Churchill Fellowship and a recent Southern & South Eastern Arts Award.