Tom Hammick: Lunar Voyage

at Flowers Gallery

The artist Tom Hammick creates work in a distinctive style that evokes both the simplicity of a child’s drawing and the unsettling, folkloric scenes depicted in medieval German woodcuts. A typical Hammick image might depict an isolated house in a forest, or a group of roughly characterised figures engaged in an activity that is impossible to identify: on the surface, the subject might seem charmingly naive, but as in one of the more gruesome Grimm tales, the sense that something awful is about to happen is never far off. With this new series of woodcuts, Hammick explores space travel, incorporating any number of cultural references: Georges Méliès’s Voyage dans la Lune, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the TV series Thunderbirds and Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes. The pictures balance bright, psychedelic colour and disarmingly simple figuration with night skies so deep and dark as to be disorientating, eliciting fear and childlike wonder in equal measure. Prices range from £2,500 to £13,000.

82 Kingsland Road, London E2 (020-7920 7777). Until 5 May.