biography | david hunt |
| 1968 | Born: Northampton, UK |
2010-2011 2007-2010 | MA Fine Art: University of Northampton. BA(hons) Fine Art Painting and Drawing: Univerisity of Northampton. |
| awards: | |
| Jul 2008 | 17th Wellingborough Open: First Place Best Professional |
| exhibitions: | |
Sep 2010 Jul 2010 Jul 2010 Jun 2010 Mar 2009 Feb 2009 Jul 2008 Jun 2007 Feb 2007 Dec 2006 | Welford Open Studios, Northampton JGallery, Moulton, Northampton Free Range, Brick Lane, London. Summer Show, UCN, Northampton. Spring Show, UCN, Northampton. Wrenn School Gallery, Wellingborough. The Castle, Wellingborough. MK40 Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes. Madcap Theatre, Wolverton, MK. Wesbury Farm Studios, Shenly, MK. |
| private collections: | USA, UK. |
| public collections: | Madcap Theatre, Wolverton, MK. Borough Council of Wellingborough. |
artist Statement david hunt
| The natural landscape informs my work, but then so does the urban landscape. I place these subjects against each other in order to explore contemporary notions of landscape whilst maintaining a discourse with historical landscape painting. I aim for my work to respond to both the history of landscape painting and the desire to expand upon that history, whereby landscape painting might continue to capture the imagination of a 21st century audience. |
| The natural and urban environments contain the physical matter which might be thought of as my subject matter, however the true subject matter of my painting is not a physical, tangible thing. Traditionally, landscape painting might be thought of as ‘a window on theworld’, I feel that my work is perhaps more like ‘a window on the mind’ and so in order to paint my subject, I draw upon the physical matter of both environments, where the asymmetry of the natural landscape is in juxtaposition against the linearity of the urban environment. These boundaries or lines become a metaphorical paradox between both environmental paradigms. My subject matter is therefore in limbo, somewhere between the figuration of representation, and the lyricism of abstraction, somewhere between the physical world and the subconscious mind. |