Exhibitions

Dates: 3rd February–3rd March 2007

Preview: 3rd February 2006, 7pm

Hammond’s work is arch and knowing but never contrived. In scenes bestowed with allusive, Campbellesque titles, Hammond’s figures defy their author and take on a life of their own. Some recent works have seen these subjects proudly displaying themselves as high art, while others hide behind bushes, masked or under layers of jesmonite. In all Hammond’s work the paradoxical territories of sophisticated naivety and ‘chance domesticated’ are traversed, alternately controlling and relinquishing a grasp on authorial hierarchies. With tongue in cheek and a steady hand, Hammond walks the line between Romantic immersion and canny sagacity in his piquant, heady confections.

Hammond was born in Aylesbury in 1979 and graduated from the painting department at Glasgow School of Art in 2002. Recent exhibitions include the solo show ‘Anachronisms less speedy, less beautiful, less efficient than the machines which have replaced them’ at Glasgow Project Rooms, 2005 and the group show ‘Keep Passing the Open Windows or Happiness’ at Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, 2006. Hammond has been selected to appear in ‘Expanded Painting 2’ at The 3rd Prague Biennale in May 2007 and will also exhibit alongside Alex Pollard at The Armory Show, New York in February 2007 (with Sorcha Dallas).