Owen Hammond

Owen grew up surrounded by art. With an artist mother, (Mary Hammond) an architect father and their friends, art was a part of everyday life. After finishing a course in Fine Art at RMIT he made and exhibited silkscreen prints since the early 1980s. These are represented in the Australian print collection of the Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery and shown at McClelland Regional Gallery Langwarrin and in the Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre Prints Exhibition and are included in many private collections in Australia and overseas

He began working as a production weaver at the Victorian Tapestry Workshop (now the Australian Tapestry Workshop) in 1985 and worked with the fabulous team on the Parliament House Tapestry by Arthur Boyd, John Olsen’s Rising Suns Over Australia Felix and John Coburn’s St George Tapestry amongst many others.

His sculptures were first exhibited in 2011 at Mailbox 141 Flinders Lane and Scott Livesey Galleries. He has won prizes in the Toorak Village Sculpture exhibition, including 1st Prize in 2014, and in the Linden Postcard Show, and exhibited in the Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition, (2nd Prize) ,the Toyota Sculpture Exhibition and the Lorne Biennale.