About this Event
Join the six exhibiting artists, exhibition curator Natasha Cox, along with artist and educator Kevin Hunt, for a discursive walkthrough of Naming the Thing.
Naming the Thing brings together the work of six Freelands Studio Fellows: Ciarraí MacCormac, David Auborn, Esther Thorniley-Walker, Michael Clarence, Mikey Thomas, and Vivian Ross-Smith.
It marks the culmination of a year-long programme of studio practice, teaching, and mentorship within the context of one of the six partner universities across the UK: Bath Spa University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen), The University of Brighton, Ulster University (Belfast), and University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
This event offers a unique opportunity to gain deeper insights into the processes and practices of the artists and explore how the conditions of a residency supported the development of works exhibited. Participants will have the chance to hear from the curator Natasha Cox; artist, educator Kevin Hunt, and the exhibiting artists, and engage in an open conversation..
Spaces are limited, so please inform us if you can no longer attend, allowing us to reallocate your ticket to the waitlist.
Bio: Kevin Hunt (b. 1983, Liverpool) is a visual artist and educator currently living and working between Birmingham and Manchester. Predominantly sculptural, his work looks for alternate social and functional possibilities within everyday objects and architecture through immersive installation, printmaking, object-making, functional design and increasingly writing – often from his own queer and working class perspective. Alongside exhibiting/producing work as a visual artist, he has a background working in education and facilitating artist-led activity. Notably he co-founded The Royal Standard in Liverpool in 2006; published the ‘ARTIST-LED HOT 100’ in collaboration with a-n in 2013 & 2017; was Liverpool Biennial ‘education artist in residence’ in 2014; developed ‘fs’ an Arts Council funded alternate-education programme or ‘free school’ of professional development for artists in Liverpool in 2017/18; taught as a lecturer in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art from 2016 to 2022 and in 2020 compilled the 'PANDEMIC PROGRAMME', an evolving archive of critically engaged online visual arts content produced worldwide during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Between 2018 and 2022 he was a member of the Acquisition Committee at FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims, France. He is currently a member of the Visual Arts, Artist Development Advisory Group at The Lowry, Salford.
For more infomation on the exhibition visit https://freelandsfoundation.co.uk/exhibition/naming-the-thing
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Freelands Foundation, 113 Regent's Park Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
