Tom Hammick: Glyndebourne Woodcuts

In celebration of Glyndebourne Opera’s 75th Anniversary Tom Hammick has made a series of six unique hand printed limited edition prints based
on the 2009 season’s productions. Using reduction woodcut techniques and hand cut type, the images explore the librettos and staging of Falstaff, Giulio Cesare, Rusalka, L’Elisir d’Amore, Tristan und Isolde
and The Fairy Queen. Different colour variations have been used in the printing of the works so that each is unique. Published through the artist’s own imprint Hammick’s vibrant images bring to mind the
traditions of the theatrical poster, in which artists such as Toulouse Lautrec designed publicity for the colourful productions of fin de siècle Paris.
Print editions are limited to 25 copies.

A large poster image combines all of the six prints within a grid using Victorian wooden type. This edition is limited to 15.

Individual prints - sold out
Large Poster £1725 inc VAT

A selection of the prints will be exhibited in the Eagle Gallery’s Summer’s Lease exhibition 16 July – 14 August

Tom Hammick's work is also on exhibition at the Northern Print Biennale (www.northernprint.org.uk/biennale) where he has won the Nexus Art prize.

His art is humane in its detail and its generalities. That is, the images he makes are inspired by small, unremarkable things in life, unremarkable but vital and cherishable. Collectively, those images sketch out a much bigger picture, relating to what it is to be alive in the world, to questions of what is valuable and important and how we might fruitfully engage with our surroundings.

Aidan Dunne, Irish Times Review, April 2009