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I’m super pleased to be featured in the local newspaper Frederiksberg Liv, with an article about the exhibition at Remanius Vision.

Here’s a translation:

Christmas exhibition | Glasses and pictures

We wish you a Merry Christmas with a selection of new paintings
and print with motifs from Frederiksberg. The images are created by Kirrily Hammond, who has found her way to Frederiksberg from the other side
of the globe. Everyone is welcome to drop by Remanius Vision on Gammel Kongevej.

“Come in for a cup of coffee and a look at the beautiful paintings and delicious spectacle frames ”, is the call from Michelle Odberg, owner of Remanius Vision. “I got the idea to exhibit some of Kirrily’s paintings as she is a customer of the store, and recently needed new “painting glasses”, tells Michelle. “We quickly agreed about throwing ourselves into it so now customers can look at frames and beautiful paintings at the same time. ”


Kirrily Hammond moved with her family from Melbourne in Australia to Frederiksberg in 2018, and the artist has found rich inspiration in her new surroundings and the Danish painter Hammershøi. Her oil paintings and lithograph depict Frederiksberg Have, Søndermarken and Bøllemosen, Strandgade and Fanø. Kirrily is a graduate of both the Canberra School of Art and the Glasgow School of Art, and she has exhibited her work in Australian commercial galleries and art museums since 1995.

The landscape has been a constant theme in her art for over twenty-five years and her paintings are intuitive responses to her surroundings. The beautiful park areas of Frederiksberg Garden and Søndermarken have captivated Kirrily, and she has enjoyed depicting the change of seasons in a series of works. The lithographic prints are on display at Remanius Vision are made at The Danish Workshops for Art in June 2021, where Kirrily produced a new series of prints of places like Bøllemosen and Fanø. Kirrily is very pleased to have the opportunity to show her work in Remanius Vision, especially since it is so close to Frederiksberg Garden and Søndermarken, which are the subject of some of her paintings. Kirrily hopes in the longer term to find Danish commercial gallery representation, as she has gradually established her work here in Denmark.

Welcome to glasses and pictures at Remanius Vision.

Clear Blue Skies Project

Penelope Cain invited me to participate in a collaborative project that documents the skies during the COVID 19 global lockdown.

Artists, creatives and others around the world are documenting the colour of the sky as the world goes through large social changes associated with the Coronavirus pandemic. These images and videos are being collated in a website and an instagram account.

Most simply, this project is a collection of photos of the sky, taken around the same place, at around the same time, once or twice a week. Check out the collaborators tab for list of all collaborators, with links to website and more information.

Copenhagen blue skies

Danish light

I’m loving the beautiful soft light in this part of the world. It lasts from 5am till 10pm as summer approaches.

I’ve started a new body of work inspired by the beautiful danish buildings and landscapes and plan to exhibit in Melbourne & Sydney later this year.

Copenhagen

 

is my new home – I moved here at the end of December with my family. I’m super excited to start painting this beautiful city and some cold wintery landscapes!

Glowing ‘Lowlands’ review

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.’

oil on copper, 20.0 x 24.2 cm (image); 23.3 x 27.5 x 3.7 cm (frame)

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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.

Belgium

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..bluebells

Sydney Morning Herald Review

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

November 14, 2014 – 11:45PM

Sasha Grishin

Street Signs, Brunswick EastStreet 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, BrunswickCanberra 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

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A nice review of the show…

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

The M Collection

Glenmorgahn, Brunswick East 2013

 

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