Kenny Hunter was born in 1962 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied sculpture at Glasgow School of Art between 1983-1987. In 2015 Kenny Hunter was given the role of Programme Director for Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art.
He has exhibited extensively in Britain and abroad including solo exhibitions at Arnolfini in 1998; Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2000; Center for Contemporary Arts in 2003; Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2006; Tramway in 2008 and GENERATION in 2014. Hunter has also created a number of high profile, public commissioned works in including; Citizen Firefighter, 2001, outside Glasgow’s Central Station, Youth with Split Apple, 2005, Kings College, Aberdeen as well as iGoat 2010 in Spitalfields, and “Blackbird (the persistence of vision)” in Leicester Square.
Hunter has said about his work: “By articulating the historicist language of the monument within the postmodern climate of reinterpretation, my work seems to invoke the clarity and certainty of its stone and bronze predecessors. Yet, on closer inspection, each work appears as an open question, a homage to doubt. Although I derive inspiration from the past, the subject matter I use draws upon contemporary popular culture – its morals, politics and belief systems. My works are hybrids that fuse sculptural orthodoxies with postmodern culture.”
