CHRONOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY
EARLY HISTORY: WAITAKERE RANGES AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND1948. Born Epsom, Auckland, one of twins, of Australian parents Jack Carlyle Hunter and Joan Maunsell nee Atthill who emigrated from Sydney in 1947. Jack Hunter's family came to Australia from Arbroath in Scotland 1887 to work on the Aluminium Smelting mines in NSW. STUDENT DAYS1965-71. Assistant Preparator at Auckland Institute and Museum. 1966-69. Attended Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland Taught by Garth Tapper and Colin McCahon. Student Union President 1969. Graduated Diploma of Fine Arts, Honours in Painting, Elam School of Fine Arts. 1969 Travel Award to Australia from the University of Otago, Dunedin. 1970 In Australia, lived in Kings Cross, Sydney and in a commune in the Northern Territory near Cairns with the film director Janine Dickins. Paintings were of a realistic/surrealistic style. 1971. On return to New Zealand obtained a Diploma of Teaching (Art and Art History) from Auckland Secondary Teachers' College. Sailed to England on the ship 'The Oriana' through the Panama Canal with the writer Louise Rennison. |
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1970s: PHOTOGRAPHY AND SUPER 8 FILM: Hoxton, London and Soho New York1972. In London enrolled at the City and Guilds School of Art and Design as a Post Graduate student. Worked as a signwriter in the Kings Road, Chelsea. 1972-75 Became a member of The Women's Workshop of the Artists Union. Art practice focused on collective strategies and feminist politics. Other members of the WWAA were the artists Mary Kelly, Margaret Harrison and Kay Hunt. 1973. Obtained a studio in Tabernacle Street, Hoxton, London, through the SPACE organisation, initiated by artists such as Bridget Riley and Peter Sedgely. 1974. Designed exhibition panels for Inner London Education Authority. 1975. With Robin Klassnick (now of Matt's Gallery) co-ordinated 'Space Open Studios' with the participation of two hundred artists who opened their Studios in London's East End to the public for the first time. 1976-77. Member of The Women's Free Arts Alliance. 1978 Joined Association of Cinematography, Television and Allied Technicians. 'Photography as an Art Form': public lecture given at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and at the Hayward Gallery, London. Interviewed on video by James Scott and Nina Kellgren, shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. 1979 'Women in Media and Communication': public lecture at London College of Printing and 'Body Politic': at the Hayward Gallery, London. |
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1980s: XEROXES AND PAINTING SERIES, Hoxton and Hackney London |
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1990s: PAINTING, CAMDEN TOWN SERIES, MUSE ON MYTH, London, New Zealand.
1991 Painted two murals, 'Delirium Tremens' 1 and 11, for 'The Camden Falcon' which was now a famous London venue for introducing independent popular music bands such as Suede, Blur, Elastica, Corner Shop etc. 1993 Director of 'The Artists Forum' presenting illustrated lectures before a public debate on the relationship between Art, Sexuality and Money at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 1999 Hospital. Wrote essays.
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2000: MULTIMEDIA, London, Pas de Calais, and NZ
2000 Awarded NVQs in Software Design Level 2 and Systems Design Level 3. 2001 Made interactive movies in Flash Macromedia Computer Application. Awarded Btec NVQ Graphic Design Level 2.Continued Mother board series. 2002 .Performance at Il Bottaccio on Artemisa Gentileschi, Realising Gentileschi, first private showing of Talisman Series. 2003 Visited New Zealand, worked at Studio Ceramics, painting on stoneware, exhibited as 'Myth and Culture', Corbans Art Centre.Joined Whitespace Gallery in Auckland. Continued motherboard series back in France. 2004. Visited New Zealand Worked at Studio Ceramics on Vases and jugs for future exhibitions. 2005. Visited Scotland for the Glasgow Art Fair showing with the Whitespace gallery of New Zealand.. Joined the Mystical Feminist Gallery No Mans Land in Banff, Scotland. 2006. Researched photographic and film works from the 1970s for show at The Norwich Gallery later in the year curated by Lynda Morris. Norwich University digitalised photography collection. Artist's book published by Norwich Gallery NSAD. 2007. Visited New Zealand to teach at the Wanganui Summer School. Printed first edition of the above artist's book.. Exhibition at the Whitespace Gallery feminist photographic work. Sell to National Gallery of New Zealand buy two major photographic sequences the Object series and Approach to Fear: Pain - destruction of cause. Interview Ed on National Radio. Interviewed by Virginia Were, editor, in Art Review New Zealand. Visited Wack Art and the Feminist Revolution at the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles. Public Talk in Gallery and interview on NSB TV by Cary Berglund. The painting The Object series 1974-5 was in this show. 2008. Talk given during the Aggression exhibition curated by Marlina Sevova, Winterthur Museum. Switzerland. Working in French studio on Gaia's Revenge oil pantings. Visited Germany, Cologne Art Fair with Karma International. 2009. Visited Milton Sound in New Zealand and arranged to exhibit major paintings in Whitespace Gallery. Worked at Julia Witcombe Cahill's house in St Mary's bay, Auckland. Also arranged artwork Gaia's Revenge to be used in Nuclear Free Mural. Visited New Zealand again in July with sister Linley Hunter Torres from Moron de la Frontera, Spain, on family matters and to attend exhibtion above. 2010. Working on new series of paintings, French landscapes, influenced by Van Gogh, and also a series of works on Milford Sound. Signed with Richard Saltoun Gallery London for vintage feminist photographic works |
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2011. Showing at Art Fairs in London and New York with the Richard Saltoun Gallery. |
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