Dorothy Hunter
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I am interested in how certain socio-political/historical reference points make art “age” more apparently, as it relates to where time and place sit in collective consciousness.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.
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
