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Tom Hunter takes a look behind London’s façades and shows us how life there really is The meticulously composed, painterly tableaux of Tom Hunter (*1965 in Dorset) operate on various levels: for one, he references important paintings from art history; for another, he tells us stories of our time—stories that all take place in the London borough of Hackney, where Hunter lives. What is perhaps his best-known photograph [...]

Death and Space Tue 23 October 2012, 6.15 pm for a 6.30pm start £5 full price; £3 student, unemployed and over 65s The Deadhouse, Somerset House, The Strand, WC2R 1LA ‘Death and the Contemporary’ is a series of site-specific events organised by Dr Georgina Colby and Anthony Luvera that will take place across the capital in October 2012. Panel discussions with keynote philosophers, writers, visual artists, and theoris [...]

BBC Radio 3, March 2011 In this essay I will try to describe the driving influence behind my art, in the work of Johannes Vermeer, who lived in 17th century Holland. This came as a complete surprise to me when I was a young upstart, striving for social justice in a squat in Hackney. While looking for a radical approach to my art, I found a revolutionary artist working in the most traditional of art forms. I first cam [...]

On view at Purdy Hicks Gallery 4 October – 3 November 2012 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM A series of nine works commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, originally exhibited at the PACCAR Room, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Tom Hunter’s series A Midsummer Night’s Dream is inspired by Shakespeare’s play and the paintings of Romantic artist Henry Fuseli. This contemporary reworking of the play is se [...]