This section contains a selection of articles and exhibition reviews.

"Amid the increasing number of art awards, the BOC Emerging Artist Award is one of the newest and most generous, with a grant of £20,000 to the winner. Last year saw Tom Hackney’s paintings of famous American film locations gain first prize..."
15 November 2004

"When visiting New York or Los Angeles for the first time, many people are struck with a deja-vu feeling of having been there and seen it all before. Through Hollywood films, such places have planted themselves in our collective memory..."

"Former Met student, Tom Hackney, magnificently throws the world back onto itself at Castlefield Gallery..."


03 December 2003

"When considering the artist Tom Hackney, it is easy to envisage a young man with a fierce squint and gnarled fingers clasped around a threadbare paintbrush, a little like Dustin Hoffman's half-blind forger in Papillon..."
11 December 2003

"It's easy to assume that the work of Tom Hackney is photography but, instead, the artist is devoted to photo-realist oil paintings, constructed withy near inhuman detail to achieve meticulous visions of reality..."
05 December 2003