A Shout in the Street

Kenny Hunter

Tramway presents new work by Glasgow based artist Kenny Hunter.

The exhibition will feature new and reworked sculptural pieces as well as text-based graphic works which originated during his residency at Location 1 in New York in 2005.

The sculptural works continue Hunter’s ongoing interest in challenging and deconstructing the monumental tradition in sculpture by fusing the classical form with the everyday object. Depicting both urban animals and the discarded remnants of human activity, they question our relationship to the ‘natural world‘ and our ever-growing consumption based economies, whilst exploring the modernist interest in ‘truth to the material’.
The text works also relate to modernism in referencing writers who wrote about and defined modernity. Visually reminiscent of the architecture, colour and impetus for movement and change of the period, they are the antithesis to the promise of certainty and timeless values in classical inscriptions.

Kenny Hunter (bn. Edinburgh, 1962) graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 1991. Several of his public art works are sited in Glasgow, including Citizen Firefighter, outside Central Station, and Man Walks Amongst Us, at present in Glasgow’s GOMA. Solo exhibitions include Natural Selection, 2006, Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Works in Colour, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington DC; and Freestyle Monumental!, the first comprehensive survey of his work, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, 2003. In 2007 he was awarded one of the Scottish Arts Council’s Creative Scotland Awards.

Artist talk: Saturday 19 July, 2pm, free all welcome.

A Shout in the Street

Sun 13 Jul 2008 - Sun 24 Aug 2008

Tue - Fri 10am - 5pm
Sat and Sun 12 noon - 5pm
Closed Mondays

Tramway 5

Free