Mary Hammond
Biography - Mary Hammond was born in Spearwood, W.A. and moved to Melbourne to attend the National Gallery School (1951-55). Mary also completed a short course in printmaking at RMIT and later taught drawing there part time in the architecture and architectural drafting department for 15 years.
She has depicted the lives of ordinary Australians for over 50 years since first exhibiting with the Melbourne Realist Group in 1953. The group, which included Ailsa and Vic O’Connor, Noel Counihan, Jim Wigley, Dave Armfield, Peter Miller and Bernard Rust, saw their art as a tool for social reform. Mary has held many solo and group exhibitions. Vic O’Connor first introduced us to her work in 1991 and since then we have held 9 exhibitions at our gallery in Carlton.
In 1974 she had a studio opposite Victoria Market. Later studios included a shop front in Northcote and above a shop in Richmond. As a wife and mother her primary interest has been in depicting the plight of urban women struggling with their daily lives – and their shopping trollies ! Her subjects are not the bikini-clad beauties of calendars and centrefolds but vibrant living women with kids and
budgets, catching our attention by the forthright drawing of an artist familiar with the beauty and appeal of simple, difficult lives. She catches their bodies and faces with a heightened sense of reality which makes ordinariness glow in her frames.
Mary Hammond is represented in public collections including the War Memorial, Canberra; State Library of Victoria; City of Melbourne collection; Melbourne and Latrobe University collections; AMIEU and ACTU collections; Artbank and many important private collections
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Men and Women 1990
Lithograph
35.5 x 51 cm
$900
“Olga” St. Kilda 1982
Watercolour
18.5 x 39 cm
Sold
The Princess, Victoria Market 1973
Pastel
36.7 x 32 cm
The Waiter, Carlton 1964
Oil on canvas
35.5 x 40 cm
New World Prelude
Lithograpgh
27.5 x 25 cm
$850
Shopping in a Storm 2005
Oil on canvas
40.3 x 23 cm
$750
Shopping for Mothers Day 1990
Oil on canvas
25.5 x 30.5 cm
The Banana Lover 2007
Oil on canvas
38 x 30.5 cm
Motherhood 1979
Oil on canvas
16.5 x 11.5 cm
Walking the Dog c1998
Oil on canvas
29.5 x 34.5 cm
Sold
Blue Shopper c2000
Oil on panel
20 x 16.5 cm
Richmond Market 1990
Ink and watercoloir
16 x 28 cm
Richmond Market 1988
Ink and watercolour
28.5 x 19 cm
Barbeque, Richmond Park 1988
Ink and watercolour
21 x 29.5 cm
Tired! Richmond 1987
Ink and watercolour
16.5 x 33 cm
Tuesday 1987
Ink and watercolour
24.5 x 33 cm
Monday 1987
Ink and watercolour
24.5 x 26 cm
Still Shopping ! 1986
Ink and watercolour
22 x 29.5 cm
Success! 2000
Oil on panel
21 x 16 cm
Keep Fit Class 1985
Ink and watercolour
22.5 x 24.5 cm
Mother and Daughter 2008
Oil on cedar panel
30 x 23 cm
The News 2007
Oil on canvas
17.5 x 23 cm
Carlton 1959
Oil on teak panel
14.5 x 14 cm
$850
In a Hurry
Oil
17 x 12 cm
$750
Important Business 1973
Pastel
32 x 46 cm
$1,650
Blokes, Richmond Market
Watercolour and ink
18 x 26.7 cm
$650
Saturday Morning Northcote
Oil on canvas
51 x 76.5 cm
On the Way 2004/2005
Oil on canvas
51 x 66 cm
Anzac Day
Oil on canvas
51 x 76 cm
Williamstown, Cleaning the Catch 1998
Watercolour and ink
19 x 28 cm
“How Are Ya Old Mate?”
Oil on canvas
56.5 x 46.5 cm
Poor Moonee Ponds Creek 1998
Watercolour and ink
19 x 27.4 cm
Sketching, Mordialloc 1995
Watercolour and ink
17.5 x 26 cm
Waiting 2004
Oil on canvas
41 x 23 cm
Golf Buggies
Oil on panel
31 x 33 cm
Sandridge Beach 2001
Watercolour and ink
27.5 x 44 cm
Alas Poor Moonee Ponds Creek 2001
Watercolour and ink
28.5 x 36.7 cm
