the notion of ‘Place’, how time and events can be expressed within it, and the implicit futures inscribed into land are key themes in dorothy hunter’s practice. she creates interventions, installations and time-based media, and is interested in modes of display and the act of collecting.
ARTIST BIO
Dorothy Hunter lives and works in Belfast. She is a recent graduate of the Dutch Art Institute’s MA Art Praxis programme (2020) and holds an MA from the Art in the Contemporary World course at NCAD, Dublin (2018). She is a current participant in the PS² Freelands Artist Programme (2022-23) and is co-editor of Critical Bastards, an Irish art publication.
Whereas, 2022, Dorothy Hunter, 34cm (w) x 25.5cm (h), Laser etched copper laminate, frame.
Top left: Damp Coolth, 2021, Dorothy Hunter, video essay (still)
Installation detail, Anticipated Fictions; Monumental Configurations, (detail) 2017, Dorothy Hunter, MDF, printed foamex, welded steel, PS2 gallery, Belfast.
Masking Series, 2018, Dorothy Hunter, postcard publication, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Masking Series, 2018, Dorothy Hunter, postcard publication, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
The geographic sites represented in her works become an embodiment of – or attempt to frustrate – ideas surrounding the politics of time and use, information access, the social-political, and how places can present these ideas back to us.
The Appropriate Changes Having Been Made (detail), 2017, Dorothy Hunter, unfired terracotta, MDF, vinyl adhesive and insulation foam, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.