Magnus Hammick

Born in Guildford in 1971, Hammick now lives and works in London and Somerset. A painter and performance artist he has exhibited widely, and was a Lisson Gallery artist 1993 – 2009, now solely represented by 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