NHS 70th Anniversary Portfolio
Andrzej's Cabin by Tom Hammick, 2018
Reduction woodcut, edition variable on Saunders Waterford HP 100% cotton 356 g/m
Published by Imperial Health Charity
Published by Imperial Health Charity
Paper Size: 660 x 700mm
Edition of 70
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'Andrzej's Cabin' - A signed limited edition woodcut print by Tom Hammick made especially for the NHS 70th Anniversary Portfolio. Reduction woodcut, edition variable on Saunders Waterford HP 100% cotton...
'Andrzej's Cabin' - A signed limited edition woodcut print by Tom Hammick made especially for
the NHS 70th Anniversary Portfolio. Reduction woodcut, edition variable
on Saunders Waterford HP 100% cotton 356 g/m (260 lb). Published by Imperial Health Charity.
the NHS 70th Anniversary Portfolio. Reduction woodcut, edition variable
on Saunders Waterford HP 100% cotton 356 g/m (260 lb). Published by Imperial Health Charity.
"In
the late 60's and 70's, where I lived in the country outside London as a
boy there were two characters who lived off grid, in a handmade shed
and an old driver's wagon. It was, as I saw it, a romantic life on the
fringe that I craved for myself, and still do. These 'outcasts', living
on the edge of society, have mostly disappeared from life as a
computerisation and the digitalisation of our day to day existence has
meant that to gain access to the benefits of a universal Health System
and the safety net of the most basic social benefits, we have all some
extent lost much of our personal privacy - the very things these loners
were hiding from in the first place.
As an antidote to
the loss of the kind of Johnny 'Rooster' Byron characters I remember
living alongside, (that Jez Butterworth celebrated in his brilliant play
Jerusalem) I wanted to make an image of someone living, like Henry
David Thoreau, in a shack out in the wilderness, as a form of escape
from our caged-in, sterilised neon worlds. I thought such an image of
romanticised shack-life, might in some way, conjure patients and
hospital staff to hear the birds sing, watch the sun go down and the
stars come out, and get back to a feeling of wonder conjured up by the
natural world." - Tom Hammick