Kate Hunt

I am a painter living and working in London.

My work hovers between abstraction and figuration. I am interested in a sense of body, space and liquidity, a fugitive, unfixed quality. Forms float, come together and pull apart. Boundaries are broken. I want to convey things in the process of becoming and collapsing to give a sense of the instability that reflects the uncertainty of our times and the forces that impact upon us, and our bodies.

I think of the canvas as a patina, pouring paint, creating layers through which forms emerge and recede. There is a sense of absence and presence, veiling and unveiling. Chance and accident are utilised. I would like to conjure a sense of universal life - 'a life' that escapes from our knowing, that is beyond judgement, ideas of identity.

I am interested in art as 'experience' and would like my work to go beyond words, into the realm of something unknown, sensed but not understood.

2007 BA Fine Art Painting - Chelsea School of Art and Design, London

2016 Master of Fine Arts, Slade School of Art, London

2018 ExP London
2017 Entropie, Camaver Kunsthaus, Florence, Italy
2017 PhotoX Awards, London
2017 Iperuranio, Camaver Kunsthaus, Varenna, Italy
2016 Artiq Graduate 2016 Art Prize (shortlisted artist) Herbert Smith Freehills, London
2016 Don't Touch, Kings Road London
2016 Slade School of Art Graduate Degree Show
2015 Slade Interim Show
2014 Slade Print Fair, Slade Research Centre
2014 Depres / deprest, University College London
2013 Browning Trail, Southwark, London
2012 Chase Contemporary, Royal College of Art
2012 Hold Fast ’Til I Come, St Mary's Orthodox Cathedral, London
2011 Ancient Camberwelle, Camberwell Arts Festival
2010 Mad Hatter's Tea Party, The Gallery, Foulden Road London
2009 Hampstead Garden Suburb Summer Show, London
2009 Make a Scene, Arts space, Camberwell with Bob and Roberta Smith
2007 Chelsea College of Art and Design BA Degree Show