Thanks to Templeton Architecture and Gallerysmith for featuring one of my paintings in a recent photo shoot for a project in Toorak, Melbourne.

Photograph by Ben Hosking

I’m really happy (and relieved) to report that the show was a success and I was delighted to receive a lot of positive comments about the work. Not many paintings remain in stock – brilliant incentive to get back into the studio!

Sim and I are super pleased that Art Guide Australia featured our exhibition ‘Keepsake’ in their Top 5 Exhibitions for the week 2-8 October 2017

This article, slightly different from the Diamond Valley Leader, was the result of a phone interview about the show. Unfortunately Sim couldn’t join me for the photo shoot.

Today’s Diamond Valley Leader has an article on the show!

Our exhibition ‘Keepsake’ opened at Bundoora Homestead on Saturday – thanks to everyone who came along. There was a great atmosphere, with 8 other exhibitions opening that day and a fantastic opening speech by Emma Busowsky Cox.

Sim Luttin and I gave an artist talk about the works, the materials, the exhibition process and how we’d like to continue to have shows together – watch this space!

Gallerysmith will be featuring my work at DENFAIR, Melbourne, details as follows:

Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre, South Wharf
Thursday 8 June – Friday 9 June, 10–6pm (open to professionals)
Saturday 10 June, 10–5pm (open to public)

I’ve been working towards 2 forthcoming exhibitions, the first will also feature the work of Sim Luttin. Our work shares a similar aesthetic sensibility and I’m excited by the prospect of collaborating on this project, details as follows:

Keepsake

Kirrily Hammond and Sim Luttin

9 August – 22 October 2017

Opening 4-6 pm Saturday 26 August, with artists’ talk at 3pm

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne

Images, left to right:

Kirrily Hammond, Train skyline 2017, oil on copper, 9.0 x 12.0 cm

Sim Luttin, Moment #1: Backyard view 2017, sterling silver, sublimated aluminium, glass, 4.1 x 6.9 x 1.0 cm pendant)

The second exhibition will be a solo exhibition at Gallerysmith, with all new work from 2017, details as follows:

Memento

12 October – 11 November 2017

Gallerysmith, Melbourne

I’ll be updating new works in the artworks section of this site as they develop..stay tuned!

Image: Ciney, Belgium 2017, oil on copper, 9.0 x 12.0 cm (image), 12.3 x 15.3 x 3.7 cm (frame)

Landmarks was opened on the 25 August with a beautiful speech by Kelly Gellatly, Director, Ian Potter Museum of Art. I’m so happy to be included in this show. I’ll post some more images of it all soon..

It’s open Wednesday to Saturday 11 am – 5 pm, Sunday 1 pm – 5 pm

Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Road (inside Brunswick Town Hall), Brunswick

Gallerysmith is representing me at Art Fair 602 Melbourne with some of my new paintings from Belgium. The exhibition opens 6-9pm, 18 August 2016 at 602 Little Bourke St, Melbourne and continues until Sunday 21 August.

http://www.602melbourne.com.au/

My family and I have moved to Belgium for a year. I plan to soak up some Flemish art and see how this northern light influences my paintings..I’ll keep you posted..

Review of Kirrily Hammond: Suburbia, with menace in the air

November 14, 2014 – 11:45PM

Street Signs, Brunswick East

Kirrily Hammond: Suburbia
Beaver Galleries, 81 Denison Street, Deakin
Closes November 25, Tues-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat-Sun 9am-5pm

Although most Australians live in the suburbs, Australian artists have generally been a little shy of this subject.  There have been notable exceptions, for example, the early works of John Brack and the art of Howard Arkley, but these hardly constitute a major tradition in Australian art, as do the landscape, the outback or still life compositions.

Kirrily Hammond, now a Melbourne-based artist but until about a decade ago living in Canberra, is fundamentally a printmaker with a romantic predisposition.  Her images are moody, frequently set at dusk, and often touched by the sense of awe and embracing the sublime in nature.  She has now brought this sensibility to the streetscapes of her adopted city of Melbourne and its tightly packed inner northern suburbs.

Canberra St, Brunswick

In terms of their sense of presence, her work brings to mind those melting tonal visions of Clarice Beckett and her watery images of dawn and dusk in her particular patch of Melbourne, the suburb of Beaumaris.  Except I find something slightly menacing about Hammond’s vision of Melbourne suburbia, particularly the suburb of Brunswick, from which come virtually all of the small oil paintings and charcoal drawings in this exhibition.

The paintings Laneway, Brunswick East, Bladen Ave, Brunswick East, Canberra St, Brunswick and the drawing Street signs, Brunswick East, all imply an exactitude of location through their titles, yet appear to be devoid of human inhabitants.  There is an anonymity in this suburbia, where danger is not depicted, but seems to lurk somewhere behind the facades of suburban houses.  It was in Brunswick that the 29-year-old Jill Meagher was brutally raped and murdered in 2012, an incident which deeply scarred the whole Brunswick community.

There is nothing in Hammond’s quiet observations of suburbia at dusk that would link them to these horrific events, but it is a slightly menacing and foreboding atmosphere that pervades in many of the scenes.  For me the most successful work at this exhibition is the monochrome drawing Street Signs, Brunswick East.  The signs themselves are left deliberately illegible, the facade of the house is thickly veiled in shadows, while the framing foreground space is dominated by a number of fleeting reflections.  Although there is a simplicity in the general compositional structure, the notion of ambiguity gives that slightly unnerving note to the drawing.  As far as the viewer knows, nothing bad has ever happened here, but the note of foreboding suggests invisible evil forces at play in the air.

As with most of Hammond’s exhibitions, this one is quite small, only a dozen pieces, tightly united thematically, but possessing the quality of “otherness”.

Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/review-of-kirrili-hammond-suburbia-with-menace-in-the-air-20141114-11m8ho.html#ixzz3J56rpN3l

Looking forward to putting the exhibition up in Canberra this week, it will be nice to be under those clear Canberra skies again.

Thanks to Art Collector for the mention: http://www.artcollector.net.au/KirrilyHammondSuburbia

I have some new work in an forthcoming exhibition titled ‘Suburbia‘ at Beaver Galleries, Canberra, opening on Thursday 6 November, 6-8pm.

Please come along if you’re in the area.

Beaver Galleries: 81 Denison Street
Deakin ACT 2600 (view map)
10 – 5 every day
(02) 6282 5294
[email protected]

FIGURATIVE WORKS FROM THE LATROBE REGIONAL GALLERY COLLECTION

14 JUNE – 12 OCTOBER 2014

Two of my paintings held in the Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection are currently on display in a group show that explores the ‘darker side’..

A nice review of the show…

just a few days left now – show closes on Christmas eve.

I have some paintings in a Christmas group show at Beaver Galleries titled ‘Small works‘. It also features the work of Crispin Akerman, Peter Boggs, Nicola Dickson, Mel Douglas, Graeme Drendel, Benjamin Edols & Kathy Elliot, Neville French, Fiona Hiscock, Waratah Lahy, Bruno Leti, Adrian Lockhart, Mandy Martin, Alicia Mozqueira, Denese Oates, Jenny Orchard, David Pottinger, Amanda Shelsher, Avital Sheffer and Wayne Viney.

The show runs from 28 November until 24 December – I hope you get a chance to see it if you’re in the area.

I have some work in a group exhibition at Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery.

Curated by Meryl Ryan and Stephen Goddard, the exhibition also features the work of Jane Burton, Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy, Georgina Cue, Dong Yuan, Roger Hanley, David Lawrey and Jaki Middleton, Callum Morton, Scan, Justine Varga, Craig Walsh and Yuendumu Door artists Paddy Jupurrurla Nelson and Paddy Japaljarri Stewart.

My work is a series of artist books titled Journals I-V 1997, which are 5 hand-bound journals made from drawings and prints.

I hope you get a chance to see the show – it runs from 23 Nov 2013 – 9 Feb 2014.

Two paintings from my recent show at Gallerysmith were purchased by The M Collection, Melbourne. They are currently on display as part of an exhibition of works from The M Collection at Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne.

Opening: Thursday 3 October, 6-8pm

108 -110 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Melbourne

(03) 94163956

Opening hours: Tues-Fri 10am-5pm, Saturday 12-5pm

 Doubtful Sound 2009, oil on linen, 30 x 30 cm

Two of my paintings are included in a group show at Gallerysmith, Melbourne, also featuring work by Guy Maestri, Catherine Nelson, Charmaine Pike, Paul Ryan, Sarah Tomasetti & Greg Wood. As you may guess from the Keats title, it’s a landscape exhibition and I hope you can make it.

Opening Friday 6 September, 6-8pm

Thanks to Dan Rule for an inspired review of my show at Gallerysmith!

I was invited to curate an exhibition for Arts Project Australia, Melbourne, and it was a fantastic opportunity to work with some amazing people and inspiring art from Arts Project Australia and more broadly by artists from Melbourne and Sydney.

Titled Nocturne, the exhibition features the work of Fulli Andrinopoulos, Dionne Canzano, Alan Constable, Leo Cussen, Emily Ferretti, Peter Graham, Brent Harris, Kelvin Heffernan, Jess Johnson, Nhan Nguyen, Cameron Noble, Warren O’Brien, Caleb Shea, Jelena Telecki and Terry Williams.

Exhibition dates: 13 July – 17 August 2013                      Download Catalogue

Images:

Dionne Canzano, Not titled 2007, pastel 43.5 x 56 cm, Private Collection

Peter Graham, it is seeded in futility, it is imbedded in dry loam 2003, oil on linen, 80 x 60cm, Private Collection

Jelena Telecki, Nurse Smoking 2012, oil on canvas, 51 x 41 cm, Image courtesy of the artist and Gallery9, Sydney.

Great to receive a mention in The Age by Dan Rule – I hope you get a chance to see the show. For further info: Arts Project Australia

The Gloaming opens on Wednesday 24 July, 6-8pm at Gallerysmith, Melbourne.

Please come along if you’re free!

More info on the exhibitions page…

I’ve been working on some new paintings for a forthcoming exhibition at Gallerysmith, Melbourne. They are images of my local neighbourhood, when the sun goes down and the shadows become mysteriously inspiring. The show will be on from 24 July – 31 August.. More info soon

Look, new website!!

Thanks to the bestest ever website designer Mik Efford