I’m very pleased that my work will now be represented by Grainger Gallery in Canberra.
Over the last 25 years Kacy and Richard Grainger have established their gallery in the Dairy Road Precinct of Fyshwick, representing a wide range of artists from the region and further afield. I’m so happy to retain my longstanding connection to the city where my artistic career began.
Stay tuned for my first solo exhibition at Grainger Gallery in July 2025.
I’m currently working towards two exhibitions in Australia featuring a range of recent paintings and prints.
The first opens 6pm, 18 April 2024 at Alexandra Sasse Gallery in Melbourne. This will be a duo exhibition with Maryanne Wick and runs until 11 May.
The second opens 2 May 2024 at Beaver Galleries in Canberra, and runs until 18 May. I’ve been represented by Beaver Galleries for over 20 years, and this will be my seventh solo exhibition with the gallery.
I can’t wait to travel back to Australia to be there for the openings!
I have a selection of new works on display at Remanius Vision, in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. These include four paintings of Danish landscapes – from very the local Frederiksberg Have, Søndermarken and Strandgade in the city, to Fanø – a small island off the far western side of Denmark. The two lithographs, Forest (Bøllemosen) and Fanø, were produced during a residency at the Statens Værkstedet for Kunst in June this year.
The works will be on display until early in the new year. I hope you might get the chance to stop by!
Gammel Kongevej 179
Frederiksberg C 1850 (view map)
Mon – Fri 10.00 – 17.30 Sat 10.00 – 15.00
I currently have some new paintings on display at Remanius Vision, an optometrist in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. They are landscapes from the surrounding area – a courtyard view on Smallegade, Frederiksberg Have and Ballerup Skyline.
Gammel Kongevej 179
Frederiksberg 2000
I’m excited to be invited to work with Better Weather, the Danish collaborative duo Anne Werner and Kasper Lynge Jensen, on an exhibition next month at Stereo Exchange. We will be combining our respective practices to make a site specific installation. Opening 20 Nov 2020.
I have some work in an exhibition that celebrates a history of printmaking at Megalo Print Studio in Canberra. ‘Return of the Archive’ features work by artists that have been associated with the access workshop over the last forty years. The prints are drawn from an archive that was recently returned from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia. Participating artists include: Alison Alder, Surya Bajracharya, GW Bot, Heather Burness, Dianne Fogwell, Annie Franklin, Kirrily Hammond, Bernard Hardy, Nicci Haynes, Patti Holden, Judy Horacek, Suzanne Knight, Julian Laffan, Arone Meeks, Erica Seccombe and Graeme Wood, among others.
1 Sept – 30 Dec 2020
Megalo Print Studio + Gallery
21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston, ACT Australia
10am – 3pm, Tuesday – Friday | +612 6232 6041 | www.megalo.org
I’m very happy to report that the Newcastle Art Gallery recently acquired my drawing ‘Swoon I’ 2009 for its collection.
It’s especially exciting to be part of my hometown collection – I was born in Newcastle, way back when!
I’m painting lots of new works at the moment, to be exhibited with Gallerysmith at Sydney Contemporary art fair from 12 – 15 September 2019.
I’m so lucky to have the eminent Dr Sasha Grishin follow my career, right from one of my earliest exhibitions Of Landscape and Memory, which he reviewed in 2000.
On Friday Dr Grishin reviewed Lowlands in glowing terms, in a piece titled ‘Putting a touch of magic into everyday reality‘, in the Canberra Times that opened with ‘she creates gem-like tableaux, which shimmer on the gallery walls’. The mention of Clarice Beckett and the ‘European tradition of the sublime’ is high praise indeed, and greatly appreciated.
‘Hammond has been exhibiting for over two decades and has established a reputation as an artist who manages to transfigure a common everyday reality into something that has been touched with a bit of magic.’
I’m super pleased that the opening of my exhibition ‘lowlands‘ went really well – the works were finally all together on the wall and I could take a step back on my activities over the last 6 months. It was also lovely to see some old friends and feel that Canberra art community support.
16 – 20 May 2018
Menzies Art Brands
1 Darling St, South Yarra
Glenmorgahn, Brunswick East 2013
The M Collection celebrated 10 years of collecting with an exhibition at Menzies Art Brands, South Yarra In Melbourne. On display was a diverse and outstanding collection of work selected by the 10 members of the M Collection, who have been rotating the works in their homes every 6 months since 2008. Two of my paintings were included – Glenmorgahn, Brunswick East 2013 and The Gloaming 2013.
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!
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!
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
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/
