W.D (Bill) Hammond

 

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  • Bill Hammond
    St Bernard coming up the hall
    Ink on paper
    420 x 520mm
    Signed, 1976

    Provenance:  Private Collection, Rakaia

  • Bill Hammond

    Let's get back in the bloody garden

    Mixed media on paper
    430 x 500mm

    Signed, 1977

    Provenance:  Private Collection, Rakaia


 

 

Bill Hammond is one of New Zealand's most influential contemporary artists. Born in Christchurch in 1947, Hammond attended the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, while working in a sign factory, making jewellery, and designing, and manufacturing wooden toys. It was not until 1981 that he returned to full time painting.

 

His enigmatic bird studies began to feature in his work in 1989, after a three week trip to the Auckland islands, where Hammond felt affected by the harsh climate, and the resulting lack of human impact on the area. He was quoted as saying "The Auckland islands are like New Zealand before people got here. It's bird land."