Philip Hammial
Contemporary Australian poet, editor, artist and art curator
Philip Roby Hammial is an Australian poet, publisher, editor, artist and art curator. His achievements include thirty-eight collections of poetry, thirty-four solo sculpture exhibitions, and, acting as the director/curator of The Australian Collection of Outsider Art, twenty-six exhibitions of Australian Outsider Art in five countries.
Hammial's significance to Australian poetry has been recognised by the Australia Council, which awarded him a Senior Writer's Fellowship in 1996, an Established Writer's Fellowship in 2004 and the Nancy Keesing Studio at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris in 2009.
Literary and artistic career
Hammial has published thirty-eight collections of poetry. He is also the editor with Ulli Beier and Rudi Krausmann of the seminal "Outsider Art in Australia". He has written many poems published in numerous journals and countries.
In 2006 he edited "25 poetes australiens", the first anthology of Australian poetry in the French language. The edition of 1000 sold out in Europe and Canada. As the director of The Australian Collection of Outsider Art, he has curated or helped to organise twenty-six exhibitions of Australian Outsider Art – in Australia, Germany, France, Belgium and the United States. The most recent exhibition – "Australian Outsiders" (23 artists) – spent two months at the Orange Regional Gallery, seven weeks at the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and then went to the Halle St.
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