Emily Hunt explores the history of witchcraft, the persecution of women and the relevance of these topics today across ambitious ceramic installations, highly ornamental paintings and etchings. Hunt takes influence from the history of ornament, visionary art, big-ego personalities and scholarly magical texts. Her exhibition history has covered topics such as the earliest representations of female witches in German Renaissance print culture and the effects of printed propaganda.
Education
2012
Masters of Fine Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
2011
Erasmus exchange scholarship to Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst Gent, Belgium
2003
BA (Hons), Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
2024
The Grotto, The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
2023
Crystal Radio Geist, Sim Smith, London
2021
Job Center. Aufgeladene Orte. Psychic Places, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany
The Machine Elves’ Shoes, Sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf, Germany
2020
Sand Play, KNULP Gallery Sydney, Australia
2017
Bad Ems, The Commercial Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015
Das schwerste Gewicht, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne, Australia
The Nose Dance at Fool’s Town, Fisher Library, University of Sydney, Australia
Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence, The Commercial, Sydney, Australia
2013
Soiled, The Commercial Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2009
The Meister of New Holland, Ratskeller Litchenberg, Berlin, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Emily Hunt & Tim Garwood, Sim Smith, NADA New York, USA
HEX, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany. Curated by Axel Städter
2022
Existing Otherwise – The Future of Coexistence, SCCA, Tamale, Ghana. Curated by Ibrahim Mahama & Solvej Helweg Ovesen
High Weirdness Solaris Project Space. Curated by Gosia Lehmann
Aliens are Temporary, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin. Curated Sylvia Sadzinski, Sonia Fernández Pan & Anaïs Senli
Sugar & Salt, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw Poland. Curated by Marcelina Grześkiewicz and Franciszek Smoręda
2021
Loss and Found, Zero Fold, Köln, Germany. Curated by Lisa Klosterkötter
Antireality Perversion Void, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand. Curated by Jess Johnson
2020
disturbance:witch, Zitadelle Spandau Museum, Berlin Germany. Curated by Alba D'Urbano & Olga Vostretsova
Sirene ~ Goldrausch, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
New Raw Green, Sim Smith Gallery, London, UK. Curated by David Surman
From my Window – Together in Art, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
2019
The Abyss: Strategies in contemporary art, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia. Curated by Naomi Evans
Etwas kam auf uns zu. Something was coming upon us. Englische Straße 29, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany. Organisiert von Dagmara Genda
Second Sight: Witchcraft, Ritual, Power. UQ Art Museum, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
MODEL, Murray White Room, Melbourne, Australia
2018
Siteworks 2018 – MICRO, Bundanon Trust, Australia. Curated by Deborah Ely
It takes time, it’s risky, it might last forever. Es dauert. Es ist riskant. Es bleibt womöglich für immer. Arp Museum, Remagen, Germany. Bahnhof Rolandseck & Pirmasens Forum Alte Post Germany
2016
Weird Ceramics, Gippsland Art Museum. Sale, Victoria, Australia
The Mnemonic Mirror, UTS Gallery & Griffith Univeristy Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia. Curated by Kylie Banyard
OVERUNDERSIDEWAYSDOWN, Manly Art Gallery & The Australian Ceramics Association, Manly, Australia. Curated by Glenn Barkley.
2015
National Self-Portrait Prize 2015, UQ Art Museum, Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia
NSW Emerging Artist Travel Fellowship, Artspace, Woolloomooloo, Australia
Sydney Contemporary group show, Sydney Contemporary 2015, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
2014
Primavera, curated by Mikala Dwyer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Mind the Gap - Train Model Exhibition, Casula Powerhouse, Casula, Australia
Sideshow, curated by Isobel Parker Phillips, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Glazed & Confused, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea, Australia
2013
Two Dollar Pareidolia - Tinsheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Awards and Residences
2022
Artist Residency Scholarship. 1646, The Hague
Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship, Sydney University
2021
Small Project Grants (Quick Response) for SCCA, Ghana through CreateNSW
2020
Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt Participant
Arts Projects for Individuals Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2018
NSW Artists Grant NAVA
2017
Fellowship at Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems Germany
Mentorship with Ajay Sharma Jaipur, India
Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant
2015
National Self Portrait Prize, UQ Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane (finalist)
NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney (finalist)
Marten Bequest Scholarship for Painting
2014
New Work Grant (emerging), Australia Council for the Arts
2013
Studio Residency at the Centre for Ceramics Pankow. Berlin, Germany
2010-2011
Australian Post-Graduate Award Scholarship
Bibliography
2017
Melissa Loughnan, Australiana to Zeitgeist: An A-Z of Contemporary Australian Art. Thames & Hudson 2017 pp. 34-35 & cover
2016
Sammy Preston, ‘Forecast Emily Hunt’, Vault, Issue 14, May 2016, pp. 124-127
“OVERUNDERSIDEWAYSDOWN”, The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol 55, No.1
Emily Hunt & Raquel Caballero, “Vogue & Bogue” Sturgeon Magazine, Issue 5, May 2016, pp. 70-80
Isobel Parker Phillips, ‘The Mnemonic Mirror’, exh. cat., UTS Gallery, Sydney
2015
‘Here today, tomorrow next week!: A ceramics roundtable by Glenn Barkley’, Art Monthly Australia Issue 281, July 2015.
2014
Mikala Dwyer, ‘Primavera 2014: Young Australian Artists’, exh. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Talks
Emily Hunt 'The Grotto', Artist Talk and Performance, The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia, June 2024
Emily Hunt 'Crystal Radio Geist', Artist Talk with India Rakusen, Sim Smith, London, UK, October 2023