Tom Hammick Sidsel Painting at the Albers Year 2024 Medium Pen and ink on paper Dimensions 19 x 12.2 cm Top pick Selected by Matthew Higgs, Director, White Columns, New York About the work I am a painter and maker of prints. My work is fed by drawing, poetry, theatre, opera, music, newspaper cuttings, and life in general. But it is drawing that is key to my practice. Drawings brand a memory into the brain so that, even many years later, they can re-conjure a place, smell the time, a conversation, the experience of re-living being on Earth. They are my own notations of love and loss, and my testament of what it’s like to be a human. Date and country of birth 1963, GB Career Highlights Albers Foundation Residency, 2024; Artist in residence with Folk clothing, 2023/24; Glyndebourne Opera House, 2019-2022. Artist collaborator with Paul Smith, 2019. Curation of Wall Window World 2017: The Towner, Eastbourne Collections include: British Museum, Minneapolis Museum of Modern Art, Library of Congress, V&A, New York Public Library, Yale Centre of British Art, Arts Council, Towner, Pallant House.