Kenny Hunter

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Kenny Hunter
Born1962
NationalityScottish
EducationGlasgow School of Art
Known forSculpture

Kenny Hunter (born 1962) is a Scottish sculptor. He lives and works in Edinburgh. Between 2015 and 2018, he was programme director of sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art [1] where he now continues to work part-time as a lecturer in Fine Art, Sculpture. [2]

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Biography

Youth with Split Apple by Kenny Hunter, King's College, Aberdeen Youth with Split Apple by Kenny Hunter, King's College, Aberdeen.jpg
Youth with Split Apple by Kenny Hunter, King's College, Aberdeen

Born in Edinburgh, Hunter graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1987 and thereafter studied classical sculpture at the British School at Athens. [3]

Hunter makes monumental civic sculpture, he also makes gallery-based work and has exhibited at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (including a bust of Jimmy Reid), the Centre for Contemporary Arts, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Tramway Glasgow, Galerie Scheffel in Germany and at Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, among others in the UK and Internationally.

According to his profile at GENERATION , "Kenny Hunter makes elegant sculptures in many materials including wood, plastic, iron and bronze. He remains fascinated by the processes involved in making sculpture in the studio and the power that they have to transform materials in order to express his complex and vivid ideas on historical time." [4]

Public art works

Perhaps Hunter's most well-recognised piece of public art in Scotland is Citizen Firefighter in Gordon Street, Glasgow. It was commissioned in 2001 for Strathclyde Fire & Rescue and due to its location on a busy corner near Glasgow Central station it is passed by hundreds of office workers every day.

Other permanent public works :

Selected exhibitions

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