Approved: 24.08.2017

Dorothy Hunter

Artist, Critic, Researcher

Approved: 24.08.2017

My practice is based upon the ways in which space and society interact. My work so far has been rooted in the element of removal that accompanies inherited history, and the stages where, due to the associations of their pasts, elements are not comfortable in artistic appropriation or have not found any “appropriate” form.

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Artist Statement

My practice is based upon the ways in which space and society interact. My work so far has been rooted in the element of removal that accompanies inherited history, and the stages where, due to the associations of their pasts, elements are not comfortable in artistic appropriation or have not found any “appropriate” form.

I am interested in how certain socio-political/historical reference points make art “age” more apparently, as it relates to where time and place sit in collective consciousness. At the same time, the act of being used within art makes a source enter into a stage of processing and “cultural response”, thus aging the source itself. This kind of cultural feedback and mindfulness, and its many motives (such as regeneration and image awareness) have made me interested in using space in such a way that straddles arenas, for example between art gallery and museum, storage and display.

I often work across disciplines that contrast physical properties and relevance of media - in terms of both the information it contains and the connotations of such media itself. Using gathered material - both personal and public domain - against more formally created objects I like to play with the sincerity and engineering behind the act of exhibition.

CV & Education

www.dorothyhunter.com

 

Education and Qualifications

2018-20                       MA Art Praxis

                                    Dutch Art Institute

                                    (Pending)

 

2018                            MA Art in the Contemporary World

                                    National College of Art and Design, Dublin

                                    Distinction

 

June 2011                   University College Falmouth

                                    BA (Hons) Fine Art

                                    1:1

 

Exhibitions

2019                            Anticipated Fictions; Monumental Configurations

                                    Solo show 

                                   126 Artist-Run Gallery, Galway

 

2018                            HOUSE TAKEN OVER

                                    Sonorities Festival, Belfast

 

                                    The Landis Museum

                                    CCA Derry~Londonderry

 

2017                            Dissolving Histories: A Moment in Time

                                    Golden Thread Gallery

                                    Belfast

 

                                    Anticipated Fictions; Monumental Configurations

                                    Solo exhibition

                                    PS Squared, Belfast

 

2016                            Domestic Location

                                    The Bathhouse, Templemore Avenue

                                    Belfast

 

                                    Still (The) Barbarians

                                    EVA International

                                    Limerick

 

                                    Birth of a Nation

                                    Ning Space, Beijing

                                    Sanwei Art Centre, Shanghai                 

 

2015                            Digital Arts Studios Residents Show

                                    Exchange Gallery, Belfast Exposed

 

2014                            PXIV

                                    Platform Arts, Belfast

                                    Presently

                                    Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown

 

2013/14                       Production CCA: Neil Clements and Dorothy Hunter

                                    Solo exhibition

                                    Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry-Londonderry

 

2013                            Moments of Inception

                                    QSS Gallery, Belfast

 

                                    Household Festival

                                    Belfast

 

2012                            Black

                                    Platform Arts, Belfast

 

                                    Household Festival

                                    Belfast

 

                                    Proposal for a Post Cell

                                    Solo Exhibition

                                    Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast

 

2011                            Breakfast

                                    Rag Factory, London

Awards/Funding

2017/18                               School of Visual Culture Scholarship, NCAD

2016                                    General Arts Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland

2013                                    Recipient of Production CCA award.

Experience and Residencies

2012- Present            

Freelance art critic, contributing to Photomonitor webzine, the International Sculpture Centre Blog, Visual Artists’ News Sheet. Gallery publications at Catalyst Arts, Centre for Contemporary Art Derry/Londonderry (edited by PVA Journal), and Ulster University Art Gallery

2019

Researcher for Project Arts Centre, Dublin's "Active Archive, Slow institution: The Long Goodbye"

April 2015                  

Art Critic in Residence at Studio Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, in conjunction with Der Standard, a national daily newspaper

 

Oct 2014-Jan 2015   

Visual Artists Ireland and Digital Arts Studios Residency Award

 

Oct 2012-Oct 2014   

Co-director of Platform Arts Studio and Gallery. Chair from September 2013 – August 2014.                                

Jan 2013                 

Outbound residency to Berlin through CCA Derry-Londonderry.

 

Oct 2011-June 2012 

Emerging artist at Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast. Involved assisting with community workshops, designing and facilitating workshops, and using the facilities at Crescent Arts to make work

 

Dec 2010-Oct 2011 

Co-curator of Breakfast exhibition at the Rag Factory, London.

Press

Gemma Tipton, EVA International 2016, Frieze, Issue 180 June – August 2016 https://frieze.com/article/eva-international-2016

Rebecca O’Dwyer, EVA 2016: Still (The) Barbarians, https://rebeccaodwyer.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/eva-2016-still-the-barbarians/

Aoife Rosenmeyer, EVA International: “Still (The) Barbarians. Art Agenda, April 25th 2016. http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/eva-international-“still-the-barbarians

Dominic Kearney, Art Review: Production:CCA, published on Culture Northern Ireland website on 06/01/2014 http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/reviews/visual-arts/productioncca

Alissa Kleist, Connecting Domestic Hubs, Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 6 Nov-Dec 2013