Hammer Chen | Drifters
Photopolymer
Image size: 19 × 20cm
Paper size: 19 × 20cm
Edition of 50
£160 unframed or £16 per month via Own Art. Contact rebecca@woolwichprintfair.com to request an application or more information.
“I found these two chairs on a quiet little island in Japan, where almost no young people live anymore. The island is home to a few elderly residents, keeping their small restaurants and shops alive. The island only sees a few visitors in the summer. Many of the chairs that once welcomed diners now sit abandoned by the roadside, their seats filled with rainwater, forgotten in time. I imagined them one day setting off on an adventure together, drifting across the sea to distant land.”
Hammer Chen is a multi-disciplinary printmaking artist currently based in Bristol and travels to work in print studios and exhibit internationally. Her practice explores memory and the fluid and subjective nature of remembered reality. She combines photography, video, copper photogravure, and etching to create cinematic, dreamlike imagery, in which reality is deliberately reconstructed from impressions formed while travelling. Travelling through unfamiliar cultures as a perpetual outsider.
Her images are not only of a lived reality: they are imagined memories rebuilt from collective experiences. Hammer starts from a photographic archive or subjects she is repeatedly drawn to — the light in the dark, the potential interaction of characters. The images are like scenes from a stage set, portraying a reimagining of past times and spaces.
Her work has been showcased in numerous local and international exhibitions, including the RA Summer Exhibition, London Original Print Fair, and the International Original Print Exhibition. In 2023 and 2024, she received the Bainbridge Print Prize and the John Purcell Prize at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
Photopolymer
Image size: 19 × 20cm
Paper size: 19 × 20cm
Edition of 50
£160 unframed or £16 per month via Own Art. Contact rebecca@woolwichprintfair.com to request an application or more information.
“I found these two chairs on a quiet little island in Japan, where almost no young people live anymore. The island is home to a few elderly residents, keeping their small restaurants and shops alive. The island only sees a few visitors in the summer. Many of the chairs that once welcomed diners now sit abandoned by the roadside, their seats filled with rainwater, forgotten in time. I imagined them one day setting off on an adventure together, drifting across the sea to distant land.”
Hammer Chen is a multi-disciplinary printmaking artist currently based in Bristol and travels to work in print studios and exhibit internationally. Her practice explores memory and the fluid and subjective nature of remembered reality. She combines photography, video, copper photogravure, and etching to create cinematic, dreamlike imagery, in which reality is deliberately reconstructed from impressions formed while travelling. Travelling through unfamiliar cultures as a perpetual outsider.
Her images are not only of a lived reality: they are imagined memories rebuilt from collective experiences. Hammer starts from a photographic archive or subjects she is repeatedly drawn to — the light in the dark, the potential interaction of characters. The images are like scenes from a stage set, portraying a reimagining of past times and spaces.
Her work has been showcased in numerous local and international exhibitions, including the RA Summer Exhibition, London Original Print Fair, and the International Original Print Exhibition. In 2023 and 2024, she received the Bainbridge Print Prize and the John Purcell Prize at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
Photopolymer
Image size: 19 × 20cm
Paper size: 19 × 20cm
Edition of 50
£160 unframed or £16 per month via Own Art. Contact rebecca@woolwichprintfair.com to request an application or more information.
“I found these two chairs on a quiet little island in Japan, where almost no young people live anymore. The island is home to a few elderly residents, keeping their small restaurants and shops alive. The island only sees a few visitors in the summer. Many of the chairs that once welcomed diners now sit abandoned by the roadside, their seats filled with rainwater, forgotten in time. I imagined them one day setting off on an adventure together, drifting across the sea to distant land.”
Hammer Chen is a multi-disciplinary printmaking artist currently based in Bristol and travels to work in print studios and exhibit internationally. Her practice explores memory and the fluid and subjective nature of remembered reality. She combines photography, video, copper photogravure, and etching to create cinematic, dreamlike imagery, in which reality is deliberately reconstructed from impressions formed while travelling. Travelling through unfamiliar cultures as a perpetual outsider.
Her images are not only of a lived reality: they are imagined memories rebuilt from collective experiences. Hammer starts from a photographic archive or subjects she is repeatedly drawn to — the light in the dark, the potential interaction of characters. The images are like scenes from a stage set, portraying a reimagining of past times and spaces.
Her work has been showcased in numerous local and international exhibitions, including the RA Summer Exhibition, London Original Print Fair, and the International Original Print Exhibition. In 2023 and 2024, she received the Bainbridge Print Prize and the John Purcell Prize at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.