Charlie Hammond’s FARM WEEDS is the first exhibition to feature in CAMPLE LINE’s downstairs space.
Comprising a new group of paintings on paper that will include flags, logos, fingers, newspapers and fungi to name but a few elements, Hammond has referred to it as ‘An imaginary proposal for an imaginary mural’, loosely drawing on a range of sources, from Illinois farmer James W. Cadle’s 1970s design for a ‘Flag of Earth’ to a small book published by Shell in 1958 entitled Farm Weeds: An Aid to Their Recognition, as well as everyday things that populate Hammond’s studio and the wider setting of Cample itself.
Charlie Hammond: ‘The body of work that I am making for Cample I have elsewhere referred to as “an almost proposal for a wall mural”. I like the idea of a false proposal for a wall mural – a wall mural that’s never going to exist, and within that kind of approach I would be able to have fun. It allows me to bring in lots of things I’m reading and looking at, so that, within the work for Cample, there could be fungi, there could be cars, and there could also be a particular flag I’ve become interested in – a so-called Earth Flag dating to the 1970s. These are all graphic moments that feed into a structure or set of rules I’ve given myself to create paintings.’