Cave Painting 4, Bone Yard Open Home
W D Hammond,
2008
Acrylic on canvas
Cave Music Quadriptych
W D Hammond,
2012
Acrylic on linen, 182 x 54cm
Cave Painting 8
W D Hammond,
2008
Acrylic on metal, 95 x 37.5cm
Cornwall Road Cave
W D Hammond,
2011
Acrylic on linen, 160 x 80cm
Mountain Music
W D Hammond,
2012
Acrylic on linen
Permanent Maroon
W D Hammond,
2012
Acrylic on linen, 55 x 79cm
Proto 1–3
W D Hammond
Lithographs in edition of 22
Singer Songwriter I
W D Hammond,
2001
Etching, 76 x 66cm
Truth Is Marching In
W D Hammond,
1986
Oil on metal, 59.5 x 90cm
Wat Is Sul
W D Hammond, 1991
Eleven Lithographs
W D Hammond,
1981
Lithographs in edition of 15
About W D Hammond
W D Hammond is a Lyttleton artist, born in 1947. He attended Canterbury University School of Fine Arts. His work tackles social and environmental issues, conveying messages about humanity and its status as an endangered species.
He has a strong interest in music, which can be seen in much of his early work. A shift in Hammond’s practice came in the early 1990s after he returned from a trip to the remote Auckland Islands, where there are no people and birds still rule the roost. Hammond imagined himself in old New Zealand, before even Māori had arrived. His work includes themes of environments under threat, and the vulnerability of life in a precarious world.
W D Hammond’s first solo exhibition at the Peter McLeavey Gallery was in March of 1987 (exhibition #214). Since that time he has had more than 20 exhibitions at the gallery.
