Born in Guildford 1971. A painter and performance artist he has exhibited widely. Lives and works in London and Somerset. Lisson Gallery artist 1993 – 2009 and now soley represented by Close Ltd. Magnus Hammick is a key collaborator with Close Ltd.
Magnus Hammick graduated from Oxford in 1992, Grenville Davey was a tutor of his during these years. He continues his aesthetic of non representational works derived from the natural landscape and tempting us to see the rationale behind them. The overlaying of a repetitive instructions, with a process based mechanism, masks an underlying landscape.
‘The media used by immersive artists has become more and more experimental and intrepid; they may involve sensors, 3D scans, temperature detectors, virtual and augmented reality devices which play on the audiences’ reaction to the experienced installations. Mine is a simple reductive inclusion. One of discussion and open ended outcomes. The goal is always to allow the spectator a voice, a proactive inclusive in the art-making process.' Magnus Hammick
Featured Exhibitions
2020
STILL LIFE, Somerset
2019
Line Field Interalia, Somerset
2016
An Element of Something Abstract, Bristol, Solo Show
2010
New Mark Paintings, Somerset, Solo show
2000
CES Design Technology, Las Vegas
1999
Gramercy Park, New York
1998
Eye Was a Child, Saatchi Gallery, London
1997
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Gallery, The Royal Academy, London
1997
Nowhere, Project Space, Lisson Gallery, London, Solo show
1996
100% Design, London
1995
In-Time, Galerie le Sous-Sol Gallery, Paris
1995
Postscripts, Lisson Gallery, London
1995
Ideal Standard Summertime, Lisson Gallery, London
1993
Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London
1990
Christchurch Picture Gallery, Oxford