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In conversation with Tom Hunter at the Museum of London
Tom Hunter
Wed 10 Feb, 7-8pm
FREE but book in advance
In conversation with Robert Elms, artist Tom Hunter shares his defining memories of the capital. Tom Hunter graduated from the London College of Printing and undertook his MA at the Royal College of Art, in London 1997. In 1998, he won the John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award and in 2006, was the first artist to have a photography show at the National Gallery, London. Tom currently lives and works in London and his work is often particular, but not exclusive, to the community of travellers he knows as neighbours and friends in East London. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is a Senior Research Fellow of the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Tom is currently exhibiting photographic works at the Museum of London.
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Events/FeaturedEvents/InConversationWith.htm
FREE but booking essential on 020 7001 9844
Museum of London
150 London Wall
London. EC2Y 5HN
Tel: 020 7814 5511
Fax: 0870 444 3853
Email: switter@museumoflondon.org.uk
www.museumoflondon.org.uk
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Tom Hunter is featured in the Dutch documentery, 'Views on Vermeer'
Here is the link to the 60min film by Dutch film maker Koos De Wilt, featuring 12 stories by Tom Hunter, Tracey Chievalier, Chuch Close, Alain De Botton, Philip-Lorca diCorcia and others.
All English speakers are in English with Dutch sub-titles.
http://cultuurgids.avro.nl/front/detailkunst.html?item=561d392ab277345b480cda808eba86ef
More than three hundred years ago Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) left us a small oeuvre of less than fourty paintings. In our day and age the power of his work is more profound than ever. Why do his paintings look so contemporarty? How did he influence current culture opinion leaders and effect our common sense of beauty?
'Views on Vermeer' unravels the mysterious modernity and beauty of he work of a once almost forgotten old master. It's a cinematic search that examines and unravels Vermeer's presence in the work os today's filmmakers. photographers, artists, authors and art historians.
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Tom Hunter in The British Journal of Photography 23/12/09
http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=872210
Go local!
Whether it was terrorism or financial collapse, the crises we faced this decade took on worldwide proportions. Photographers have responded with projects on globalisation but, says Paul Wombell, there's also a counter trend towards the local, which defies the logic of international homogenisation
Anchor and hope, 2009 © Tom Hunter
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Tom Hunter shows at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop, London.
Bookshop Exhibition: Polaroid Project
1 December 2009 - 31 January 2010.
The Bookshop is celebrating one of the most iconic products of the twentieth century.
The last instant film manufactured by Polaroid was produced in 2008, with an expiry date of October 2009. To mark its passing national newspaper The Observer gave eight leading contemporary photographers Polaroid film and cameras for a day - Harry Borden, Nan Goldin, Tom Hunter, Mary McCartney, Martin Parr, Rankin, Lord Snowdon and Sam Taylor-Wood. The resulting images exhibited in the Bookshop have the intimate immediacy that the Polaroid medium is so loved for and are unique prints, some of which are available to purchase.
However the expiry date of the last Polaroid film is not the end of the story. The Impossible Project – a group of dedicated Polaroid enthusiasts – plan to manufacture new Polaroid format film in early 2010. As a result, Polaroid will begin to manufacture its instant cameras again.
The Photographers’ Gallery Bookshop is one of the few remaining places selling a wide range of Polaroid products and also provided the film for the Polaroid Project. In 2010 we will be one of the first places in the world to sell the new film and cameras, helping to ensure this beloved, instant photography remains available for future generations.
This exhibition is presented in association with The Observer.
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Tom Hunter shows at Purdy Hicks christmas show, London
Tom Hunter show two new works from the 'Prayer Places', series at Purdy Hicks London.
16 December 2009 - 16 January 2010
http://www.purdyhicks.com/exhibitions/index.php
Purdy Hicks
Rebecca Hicks
Nicola Shane
65 Hopton Street
Bankside
London SE1 9GZ.
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7401 9229
Fax: +44 (0)20 7401 9595
E-mail: contact@purdyhicks.com
Monday - Friday: 10am - 6pm
Saturday: 11am - 6pm
Underground
Southwark, London Bridge or Waterloo.
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Thoroughly modern mothers: artists reimagine the Christmas nativity scene (9 pictures) guardian.co.uk home
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/dec/14/artists-christmas-nativity-scenes?picture=356878557
Thoroughly modern mothers: artists reimagine the Christmas nativity scene
6 / 9
Tom Hunter
'What is a nativity scene about? When I first thought about it, I thought of a school playground, of camels and kings. But then I realised it’s actually about a young homeless family, and their struggle to find a place to bring up their children. My photograph is of Leyila, a young refugee from Somalia, and her eight-week-old baby, Kymora. I photographed Leyila and Kymora in their living room, basing the image around Caravaggio’s painting The Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence. Caravaggio used ordinary people as models, which I find very inspiring. I used an old Tungsten light, which takes about 15 minutes just to warm up, to give the photograph that “Caravaggio light”, and to create a contrast between the cold blue light from outside, and the stark reality of Leyila’s flat. But what I wanted to show above all is the beauty of the simple connection between a mother and her child'
Photograph: Tom Hunter
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Tom Hunter print sale at the National Gallery London
Widows Horror at Shock Threat © Tom Hunter, 2008
Limited edition print sold in aid of the Campaign for the Titians
http://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/shop/search/tom_hunter/111122framed
This limited edition art print of a photograph by Tom Hunter is a contemporary recreation of Titian's Diana and Actaeon composition, set in a London club. It was the joint initiative of the photographer and students at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, created specially to support the campaign to raise funds to acquire Titian's great painting for the nation.
The actress Kim Cattrall, famous for her man-eating role as Samantha Jones in the Sex and the City series, features as the goddess Diana, while Actaeon and the nymphs are members of the performance group La Clique and students from the Courtauld Institute. The work was featured on BBC2's The Culture Show in November 2008, sparking a lively debate.
Tom Hunter said of this piece:
“One of the great attractions of Titian's painting Diana and Actaeon is the theatrical element. The painting has such a strong sense of narrative, it makes me think that if Titian were alive today he would be directing films or T.V. That's why it was so great to use Kim Cattrall from Sex and the City to make my updating. The soap opera has now become the narrative painting of the modern age.”
Twenty-five (25) of the prints will be A3 size at £200 and twenty-five (25) at A2 (twice A3) size at £400. The prints will be numbered by hand, no further prints will be made.
Widows Horror at Shock Threat © Tom Hunter, 2008
Limited edition print sold in aid of the Campaign for the Titians
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Portfolio Magazine 50th edition features tom hunter
http://www.portfoliocatalogue.com/50/index.php
It is a pleasure to announce the 50th issue of Portfolio, marking 21 years of the publication. To celebrate the occasion we have invited 50 of the UK’s most significant artist photographers to contribute two pages of their newest works for this special extended issue.
Anne Hardy, Prime, 2009
In reflecting back over Portfolio’s history, it is clear that photography has changed dramatically in terms of its production, distribution and consumption, and this 50th issue offers an opportunity to explore how and when these changes have evolved. A useful starting point is a key moment thirty years ago, when the groundbreaking exhibition ‘Three Perspectives on Photography: Recent British Photography’ was shown at the Hayward Gallery, London, in June 1979. This ambitious exhibition - and its catalogue - inspired a generation of photographers, and broadened the future scope of photography production and exhibition. The exhibition comprised three distinct strands that reflected the diversity of photography at the time – Paul Hill curated ‘Photographic Truth, Metaphor and Individual Expression’; Angela Kelly curated ‘Feminism and Photography’; and John Tagg curated ‘A Socialist Perspective on Photographic Practice’.
Tom Hunter, Hope & Anchor, 2009
Continuing the theme of ‘three perspectives’, we have invited three writers to contribute their personal and professional analyses: David Bate looks at the origins and structure of the 1979 exhibition, its cultural and economic context, and how photographic practices have evolved during the following three decades; Martin Barnes discusses the major survey exhibitions that followed and the important shifts in practice; and Dewi Lewis explores external influences on photography in Britain, the tension between art and commerce, and the publishing sector.
I sincerely hope that this incomplete survey of photographic art in Britain in 2009 will inspire emerging photographers and students, and that these illuminating essays will contribute towards the continuing history of photography.
Gloria Chalmers
Editor
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Tom Hunter show in Pauza Gallery, Krakow, Poland
 Tom Hunter "A Journey Back"
30.11.2009 - 15.12.2009
http://www.galeriapauza.pl/galeria_item.php?id=0&lang=eng
http://www.galeriapauza.pl
W tym czasie Galeria Pauza otwarta będzie także w poniedziałki (od 15.00 do 21.00)!
Mecenasem wystawy jest Prodesigne
Wystawę Toma Huntera "A Journey Back" do Polski sprowadziła Fundacja Element 65. Tom Hunter jest reprezentowany przez Fundację Element 65. www.element65.pl
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Tom Hunter "A Journey Back".
30.11.2009 - 15.12.2009
During that time Pauza Gallery will be open daily (3 pm - 9 pm)!
The exhibition is Patroned by Prodesigne www.prodesigne.com.pl
Tom Hunter's exhibition "A Journey Back" was brought to Poland by Element65 Foundation. Tom Hunter is represented by Element65 Foundation. www.element65.pl
k.harazim@fundacjapauza.pl
+48 602 600 679
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Between the Lines - An exhibition of work that explores the relationship between image and text.
As part of the Photomonth Festival of Photography:
Between the Lines - An exhibition of work that explores the relationship between image and text.
Held in conjunction with the Between the Lines Symposium at the Women's Library on Wednesday 25th November
Please come to the Private View on Thursday 19th November 6 - 8.30pm
Exhibition open Tuesday - Friday 17th - 29th November 12 noon - 6pm
Unit 2 and Foyer gallery, Sir John Cass School of Art, Media and Design, LMU, Central House 59-63 Whitechapel high Street London E1 7PF
Aldgate East tube, opposite The Whitechapel Gallery
Including work by the following artists:
Tom Hunter, Peter Kennard and Jenny Mathews, Melanie Manchot, Paul Hill, Heather McDonough, Kathryn Faulkner, Spencer Rowell, Mick Williamson, Susan Andrews and Fiona Yaron-Field
Also, a selection of books by various artists and photographers.
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Tom Hunter shows at Marine, Los Angeles. Salon No. 3, Works 066 – 091.
Salon No. 3
Works 066 - 091
November 21, 2009 —
January 27, 2010
www.c-artmarine.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAUanD57tgY
Marine is pleased to present its third show, Salon No. 3, Works 066 – 091. Purposely eschewing a curatorial theme, each show is a considered showcase of works that are meant to be viewed as a coherent personal collection. While retaining a consistent aesthetic across all shows, each salon explores the idea of a fictitious collector with a different vision or focus. Salon No. 3, Works 066 - 091 explores the idea of a collector with an eye for phantasmagoria, melancholy and devastation. Marine is committed to showing artists in all stages of their career in the same setting.
Salon No. 3, Works 066 – 091 presents the work of M.B. Boissonnault, Joshua Callaghan, Cindy Cheng, Sean Higgins, Tom Hunter, Dana Louise Kirkpatrick, Peter Lograsso, Michael McConnell and Debra Scacco.
Salon No.3, Works 066 - 091 includes the work of renowned U.K. artist Tom Hunter, who was the first photographer to have an exhibition at the National Gallery in England. This will be the first show of his work in Los Angeles since 2000. His work is held in several notable public collections including LACMA and he has had numerous shows at galleries and museums including White Cube, The Saatchi Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and
Tate Britain.
About Marine
Marine is an art salon based in Santa Monica, California that represents international contemporary artists. Evoking the elegance of salons past, Marine reconsiders and reinterprets the idea of the salon through an ongoing program of group exhibitions by artists whose work is concept-led and vital. Marine was founded by curator Claressinka Anderson in the hope of creating a welcoming space for thought, engagement and interaction with contemporary art, away from the gallery setting. Marine opened its doors to a private audience on July 11, 2009, with subsequent Salons occurring bi-monthly.
Marine is open by appointment and located at 716 Marine Street, Santa Monica 90405. Parking is on the street, with complimentary valet service available for opening receptions.
Media Contact :
Emily Sills
Telephone
+1 310 399 0294
Email
es@c-artmarine.com
Private Reception
November 21, 6 – 9 pm
rsvp@c-artmarine.com
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Tears of Eros, The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, in collaboration with the Fundación Caja Madrid , is organising a major exhibition entitled Tears of Eros, and will feature Tom Hunter's work, presented in Madrid from October 20th, 2009 to January 31, 2010.
http://www.museothyssen.org/microsites/exposiciones/2009/Lagrimas-de-Eros/index_en.html
The exhibition takes its name from Les Larmes d'Éros (1961), Georges Bataille's last book before his death and his final contribution on a theme he had researched in depth in Eroticism (1957): the intimate relationship between Eros and Thanatos, between sex drive and death instinct. Bataille took as his starting point the certainty that in the petite mortem> of the orgasm we experience an avant-goût - a foretaste - of death. Using images of agony to express sexual climax and the language of ecstasy to depict death was of course not an invention of Bataille's: we find it in Wagner, in Romantic poetry, in Bernini and Michelangelo, in the Spanish mystics and in ancient Greek poetry. Bataille believed he had found a basis for the connection between Eros and Thanatos: both in death and erotic fulfilment we return, from the discontinuity of individual life to the original continuity of being.
For Bataille connections between Eros and Thanatos only made sense within the context of an experiencing of the
sacred. Eroticism is a subject of taboo, a prohibition (interdit) which illuminates the forbidden "with a light both sinister and divine: in a word, it illuminates it with a religious light". In eroticism, as in the sacred, prohibition does not exist without transgression. Prohibition excludes the natural, animal impulses, in order to establish the dominion of the cultural. But from the very moment it is formulated, prohibition triggers the return of the excluded, of what had previously been rejected with horror. Animal impulses return in religious sacrifice, during which violence is moulded like some precious yet dangerous material. For Bataille sacrifice is the ultimate stage for eroticism.
To explore the intimate relationship between Eros and Thanatos, the mythological figures are set out in an almost narrative sequence, moving forward from innocence to temptation, from temptation to the torment of passion, and ending in atonement and death.
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Can Art Save Us? Museums Sheffield : Millennium Gallery
22 October – 31 January 2009
www.museums-sheffield.org.uk
'Women Reading Possesion Order' by tom hunter will be featured in this new exhibition in Sheffield.
Our planet is racing towards an ecological tipping point. Some scientists believe we have already passed it. We tell ourselves that re-using the odd carrier bag or occasionally turning the lights off are more than candles in the hot wind of environmental meltdown, but the truth is a sea change in our thinking is needed if we are to sustain our fragile planet. Science and politics may be at the vanguard of our quest for a better way, but where does art fit in? Have we underestimated art’s capacity to change the way we think and act? Can art actually save us?
Can Art Save Us? is the first in a series of three exhibitions at Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery which will draw on the ideas and insights of critic, author, artist and scholar, John Ruskin (1819-1900). At first glance an unlikely eco-warrior, Ruskin was arguably ahead of his time in his recognition of the environment as a finite resource.
Featuring paintings, sculpture, installations and mixed media work from Tate, the V&A, the National Gallery and the Natural History Museum , Can Art Save Us? will see Ruskin’s legacy illustrated through a diverse selection of historic and contemporary art. Drawing on Sheffield’s unique Ruskin collection of art and artefacts, this exhibition thrusts Ruskinian thinking into the 21st Century to illustrate art’s great capacity to stimulate debate and, ultimately, change.
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Angels and devils in Hackney at The National Gallery. Tom Hunter at the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A7771160
It’s a rare thing to see cutting-edge contemporary art in The National Gallery. But that’s what makes photographer Tom Hunter’s latest exhibition, Living In Hell And Other Stories, so ideal.
This exhibition of large-scale photographs is a fascinating play on the frantic sensationalism of the media, particularly in Hunter’s local newspaper, The Hackney Gazette. He parallels the violence, murder, poverty and madness within the pages of the paper with the same themes in the paintings at The National Gallery. He draws on compositions and content from artists like Cranach and Piero di Cosimo to frame stories of strippers on the Hackney Road, people being attacked with swans, and wedding parties turning into brawls. A supposedly innocent cupid in Velasquez’s Rokeby Venus, for example, becomes, in Hunter’s world, a dirty voyeur paying a pound to watch a naked woman.
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Tom Hunter recreates Titian's painting Diana and Actaeon
Tom Hunter recreates Titian's painting Diana and Actaeon in a modern day setting with a surprising cast, including Kim Cattrall and performers from La Clique.
- Presenter:
- Andrew Graham-Dixon
- Transmitted:
- 25/11/2008
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Tom Hunter's best shot, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 4 November 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/04/photography-tom-hunter-best-shot#
'It's inspired by Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter – except she's a squatter reading a possession order'
'I wanted to show the dignity of squatter life' ... Tom Hunter's Woman Reading a Possession Order. Photograph: V&A Images/Tom Hunter
I was living in Hackney in London, in a whole street of squats, having spent two years travelling around Europe in a doubledecker bus. Everyone got a letter addressed to "persons unknown". The council wanted to knock down the street and build warehouses. The Tories had brought in the Criminal Justice Act, which was designed to stop parties. Every time you saw a picture of a squatter or a traveller, it was to go with a story about how antisocial they were. I just wanted to take a picture showing the dignity of squatter life – a piece of propaganda to save my neighbourhood.
I took this in 1997, for my master's degree show at the Royal College of Art. The 17th-century golden age of Dutch painting had had a massive impact on me: the way they dealt with ordinary people, not kings, queens and generals. I thought if I could borrow their style for squatters and travellers, it would elevate their status. In this shot, inspired by Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, my next-door neighbour is reading the possession order.
Filipa had just had her first baby. We spent the whole day trying things out: we had a bowl of fruit, then we tried some curtains, then incorporated the baby. The light was perfect, a late winter sun coming through the window, really low, like the northern European light.
I used a large-format camera, which really captures that light. And I used the Supachrome process to print it – old-fashioned even then. The exposure was about a second, so it was like sitting for a painting: she had to stand still. I was waiting for the light to pour into the lens, rather than snapping at something.
I phoned her up last week and she's still happy with the picture. It's a record of her, her child and her home at the time. The great thing is, the picture got a dialogue going with the council – and we managed to save the houses.
CV
Born: Dorset, 1965.
Studied: Royal College of Art, London.
Influences: "Painters inspire me most – Caravaggio, Vermeer – but I also like Dorothea Lange and Sally Mann."
High point: "Graduating from the RCA. I never thought I'd have an A-level, let alone an MA."
Top tip: "Find something that drives you on. Being threatened with eviction was a real spur for me."
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Tom Hunter shows at The Joseloff Gallery in ENCHANTMENT
DISTINGUISHED ARTIST EXHIBITION AND SYMPOSIUM
http://www.joseloffgallery.org/enchantment/index.html
The Joseloff Gallery
Harry Jack Gray Center
University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
The Hartford Art School/Joseloff Gallery Distinguished Artists Exhibition and
Symposium will take place November 4, 5, 6, 2009. The exhibition will continue
through January 17, 2110. A goal of the program is to bring artists, historians, and critics
to campus to engage in a dialogue with students, faculty and the community related to a
particular topic. ENCHANTMENT, the title of this year’s program will focus on
Romanticism and the figure in academic art with paintings from the late nineteenth
century alongside works by contemporary artists who utilize the genre to engage in wider
themes.
As the title of the show implies, ENCHANTMENT demonstrates the painted picture’s
power to delight, to captivate to transform. While viewers will be enthralled by the
sensuality and beauty of the 19th century paintings on display, this exhibit redirects our
attention, examining ways in which artists today emulate, broaden, and interpret this
legacy on contemporary terms.
The exhibition will include painters and illustrators who are dedicated, to some degree or
another, to the rigors of the academy, characterized by a formal process of copying prints
from past masters, drawing from plaster casts, and drawing and painting from a nude
model. Strictly speaking, drawing was the foundation of all academic painting; there was
a hierarchy of subjects such as history and mythology, with emphasis on detail through
an idealized lens.
Others in the exhibition use contemporary methods to embrace and subvert these themes.
This includes combining the subject from one masterpiece with the style from another;
artists who mine the past to create paintings that reinterpret old themes in today’s visual
language; use allegorical references to depict contemporary events; through photography,
explore the transition between the authentic work of art and its reproduction; exaggerate
the idealization of form and subject using humor and irony; depict recognizable
contemporary figures as heroic icons from the past.
PROGRAM
Wednesday, November 4
Lecture, Wilde Auditorium
Thursday, November 5
Lecture by Peter Trippi
Historian, writer
Editor, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine
Friday, November 6
Panel Discussion
6-8pm OPENING RECEPTION
An illustrated catalogue will be available with essay by Peter Trippi.
CONTACT: Lisa Gaumond, Gallery Manager (860) 768-4090 or gaumond@hartford.edu
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tom hunter, a jouney back
TOM HUNTER "A JOURNEY BACK"
23.10. - 24.11.2009
centrum dzialan tworczych | 1500 m2 do wynajecia
Tom Hunter has a new show at Galeria 65 in Warsaw, Poland.
Opening the 23rd of October 2009 until the 24th november 2009
ELEMENT65
00-551 Warszawa
tel +48 22 216 55 26
http://www.element65.pl/
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University of the Arts London, Celebratory limited edition print, 'Anchor and Hope' 2009
To celebrate the UK's first retrospective exhibition of Tom Hunter's work at the Arts Gallery we have commissioned a limited edition print. This new work draws on American artist Andrew Wyeth's classic painting Christina's World. The special edition of fifty framed A4 prints will be available exclusively at the Arts Gallery priced at £360, to allow Tom’s work to be available to a wider audience. To purchase a print please email curator Medeia Cohan at m.cohan@arts.ac.uk
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TOM HUNTER BOOKS ON AMAZON
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