Felicity Hammond (b. 1988 in Birmingham, UK) is an artist and educator based in South London. She is a senior lecturer on the MA Photography programme at Kingston University. Hammond received an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in London in 2014 and a PhD in Contemporary Art Research from Kingston University in 2021. Her first institutional solo exhibition Remains in Development took place in 2020/2021 at C / O Berlin and Kunsthal Extra City Antwerp. She has exhibited her work in international group exhibitions at museums and galleries including Fondazione Mast Bologna, Fotomuseum Winterthur, VOX Centre de l’image Contemporaine Montreal, Higher Pictures New York and Saatchi Gallery London, amongst others. Hammond has worked on a number of high profile public art works, including a 30 metre site-specific work for Photo 2021 Melbourne, Australia and a large scale installation for Colchester and Ipswich Museum, UK. Hammond’s work has received and been nominated for a number of awards, including being the recipient of the Ampersand Photoworks Fellowship (2023). She was awarded the Lumen Art Prize (2018), FOAM Talent (2016), and the British Journal of Photography International Photography Award (single image winner, 2016). Hammond’s first book, Property, was published in 2019 by SPBH Editions.
Variations has been created by Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship Artist Felicity Hammond, supported by The Ampersand Foundation, Arts Council England and Spectrum. Commissioned by Photoworks, an international development organisation, charity and Arts Council England NPO the fellowship is a unique biennial opportunity that support a mid-career artist to create and exhibit a new body of work. It aims to enable the artist through mentoring and curatorial support; a dedicated public programme and digital content with international reach; a production budget and a touring exhibition. Variations tour V1: Content Aware (Brighton, Jubilee Square) 24-27 October 2024 / V2: Rigged (Derby, QUAD) 14 March – 15 June 2025 / V3: Model Collapse (London, The Photographers Gallery) 27 June – 21 September 2025 / V4: Repository (Edinburgh, Stills Centre for Photography) 6 November 2025 – 7 February 2026
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