Tom Hammick installation comes to Charing Cross Hospital
Tom Hammick installation comes to Charing Cross Hospital
04 May 2017
Imperial Health Charity, which manages the art collection at all five Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust hospitals, has organised the installation of ten prints, now on display in the neuro-rehabilitation unit at Charing Cross Hospital.
The works on display demonstrate Hammick’s imaginative handling of colour and placement of figures, alone or in groups. Often working through the night, Hammick conjures dusk, dawn or moonlight with his palette of beautiful colours. The pair of woodcuts, Compound Day and Compound Night, illustrate his fascination with showing how the same building appears in different light.
Sarah Daniels, Lead Therapist at the Charing Cross Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit, said “Support from Imperial Health Charity has been fantastic over the last year. On behalf of all of us on the unit, thank you very much for organising for us to have the Tom Hammick works. We love the prints and we hope he is pleased too.”
Hammick’s work has been displayed in public collections around the world, including the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Yale Centre for British Art, and The Library of Congress, Washington DC.
In 2016, Hammick was awarded the Victoria & Albert Museum's Prize at the International Print Biennale, Newcastle, for his print Violetta and Alfredo’s Escape (2016), which has since been acquired by the V&A collections. In the same year, he curated the exhibition Towards Night at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, which explored the nocturnal through paintings, prints and drawings by over sixty artists.
To find out more about the charity’s art collection, click here.
