A place from within
✹
My work has transitioned a lot over the last 20 years, to a place I am proud of.
My most current endeavours really reflect my state of being in relation to the world around me right now, and also my acute sense of longing to bring about the best of all possible outcomes through my work. This has meant my concentration has fallen and fixed on what I consider to be worth savouring and admiring - an unapologetic and unreserved salute to the living things, which have no voice, politics, power, or financial clout.
To that end I use flora and fauna in my artwork to remind myself, and others, what a miracle we have sitting in front of us; and have made them the centre of my universe to the exclusion of all others.
There may be hidden allusions or metaphors underlying the concept of each work, which hint at other meanings, but the image is constant and faithful in the way I understand it, to the thing it is depicting.
I am always open to collaborations, commissions and exhibiting both in the UK or abroad; so if you are interested in any of the above - or would simply like to get in touch about a particular work or anything else, do not hesitate to send me a message.
Please visit my contacts page for more information.
'Finding my roots', 2022; mixed media on panel, 80 x 62cm
Short Biography of Recent Times
Hunt has been very intentional in taking further strides towards establishing a stronger presence with her practice in the public domain over the last four years. Kipling co-created an installation specifically designed to promote well-being during lockdown on the exterior of a house, yet still adhering to social distancing, when all the galleries had closed down. She was then picked by a panel of eminent artists, curators and advisors in 2022 for the KCAW 5th Public Art Trail, supported by the Kensington and Chelsea Festival; with her proposal for four brightly painted floral panels to be situated in Kensington Memorial Park, now scheduled to become a permanent fixture in 2024.
Hunt has worked in many mediums over the years, and collaborated with a diverse group of people from fire arms experts, an art forger, squatters, to a business man turned guru on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, part of One and Other by Antony Gormley in 2009. She also inspired the band Deep Blue Sea to write a song from the title of her painting All I wanted was Rock Star Status, then see it performed at the 100 Club, London in 2018.
Kipling was a Derwent art prize nominee and exhibitor in 2013 with her piece Great Brampton House, only Time will Tell Series: 3D Printing Machine; and has works in the permanent collection of Martin Miller’s Estate and more recently in the Bethlem Gallery part of the Maudsley Charity NHS Foundation Trust, as well as many other private collections both in the UK and internationally.
• Solo exhibition ‘Awakenings’ at Avivson Gallery, London N9 17th -30th September 2023
• Dulwich Open – at the Blenheim Studios under the Arches, Peckham, May 2023
• ‘Home Grown VII’ bought by the Bethlem Gallery, part of the Maudsley Charity, and in kind support from South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust for their permanent collection, October 2022
• Participant in the KCAW 5th Public Art trail 2022 – from June 2022 to present – installation ‘Home Grown’ in Kensington Memorial Park
Other artists included: Birungi Kawooya & Bokani Tshidzu; Charlotte Colbert; Azarra Amoy; Lise
Bouissiere; Gavin Turk; David Böhm & Jiří Franta; Konstantin Benkovich; Sokari Douglas Camp CBE; Richard Mackness; Roman Lokati; Maya Sanbar; Adam Bridgland. Supported by the Kensington and Chelsea Festival
• Joint exhibition with artist and ceramicist Emma Fenelon. Showing work created through lockdown by both artists, installed in the garden and house of a private individual, as part of the Lambeth Open, September 2021
• Solo show at You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, Hither Green, Aug 2020-Jan 2021
• Dulwich Open 2020– Lockdown Installation with two other artists Emma Fenelon and Fraser Lawson celebrating ‘The Healing Powers of Flowers’, with social distancing in place, in aid of the Trussell Trust. Sponsored by Novikov Restaurant, Roseberys Auction House, the Dulwich Festival, and in collaboration with Invisible Blue Ltd, attracting publicity and an interview on BBC Radio London, May 2020
• Inspiring a band called Deep Blue Sea, who after seeing a postcard of Hunt’s painting called ‘All I wanted was Rock Star Status’ 2007, to write a song with the same title. Hunt was eventually invited to see them perform it at a gig at the 100 Club in London. November 2018
• Spending a year under the tutelage of Bob and Roberta Smith OBE RA and Johanna Melvin on a postgraduate course called The Bigger Picture, at the Essential School of Painting, in East London. It was concerned with thinking about painting in a radically new way and looked at painting as an act undertaken by the artist that has consequences. It explored the process of painting, surface, colour, form, composition, and the subject of painting, the personal and political.
The programme ended with The ESOP 23.4° End of Year Exhibition, at the Art Pavilion, London E3. Pritchard presented an installation called: ‘Kipling’s Flying Circus’, or KFC for short. The installation had birds wired and hanging from invisible threads on an ornamental metal frame, circus like; with a fierce pink ceramic cat, Kitty, covered in white feathers sitting on an upturned flowerpot below, trying to catch them. June 2018
• Shooting soft clay gamebird sculptures with either a shotgun or rifle, with the help of Copt Hall Farm, Luton; before biscuit firing them, followed by Raku glazing – shown latterly, with accompanying film, at the Dulwich Open, London & Luton 2018-2019
• Commissioned work for Babur, a contemporary Indian restaurant in South London to include a ceramic installation hung in the restaurant, based on memories, primarily spice related, after a trip to India; decorated Indian style oversized floral Christmas paper-mache baubles for installation in the front window; and re-painting their fiberglass Tiger on the roof of the restaurant. London, 2007-2017
• Travelling to Holland to shoot painted animals on vintage NRA pistol targets (bought in 2014 on Ebay, from the USA, while researching the extinction of endangered species), with a firearms specialist in handguns. Film also made to accompany this project. Broek-in-Waterland, Netherlands 2016
• Graphic work, especially ‘Hay on Wye’ poster, in the style of vintage travel promotional publicity, to coincide with the Hay Festival, while living near Wales, and later the same for ‘Brockwell Park, London’, to coincide with the Lambeth County Fair & Urban Art Brixton, Herefordshire and London, 2013-2015
• Derwent Art Prize contestant, nominee and exhibitor – with an artwork from the “Great Brampton House: Only Time Will Tell Series”, called ‘3D Printing Machine’; graphite and coloured pencils on antique paper,
25.2 x 31cm, Mall Galleries, London, 2013
• ‘Fallen Angel’; ceramic & feathers, 2005. Accepted into the Collection of Martin Miller, entrepreneur, owner of Great Brampton House, co-founder of Miller’s Antiques Price Guide and owner of Miller’s Gin. 2013
• Artist Residency at Great Brampton House, Madley, Herefordshire. Inspired an installation called ‘Missing’, using posters placed on many of the trees around the grounds of the house, showing missing children from that point in time back to1959. The work highlighted kids lost in the UK, and some British children lost abroad to include the likes of Madeline McCann and Ben Needham. None of those children depicted in the posters were ever found again, prior to the point of that installation. It was like a physical forest of missing persons, based on the tradition of leaving posters on trees/lamp posts to alert people of lost pets in rural and urban environments. The house was a hotel at the time, with art gallery in the basement and studio space on the grounds, the guests found the installation so distressing Hunt was asked to remove it. A film was also made, which interpreted the work artistically. The other project to be spawned there was a drawing exercise, which resulted in a nomination for the Derwent Art Prize, 2013.
• ‘The Ghuru’ – performance piece with Terry Burgess. Concept, ceramic crown, costume and original idea designed and created by Kate Pritchard. Midlands postcode, kind collaboration, and physical performance of one hour by Terry Burgess.
In ‘ONE & OTHER, FOURTH PLINTH COMMISSION, TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON, ENGLAND, 2009’ July - 14 October 2009: Antony Gormley's proposal, ONE & OTHER, was for the Fourth Plinth to be occupied for 100 consecutive days, 24 hours a day, by members of the public who would volunteer to stand on it for an hour at a time. 2,400 people would be able to participate. London, 2009
• Crystal Palace Signals Art Event, collaborative organizer, curator and exhibitor, London, 2007
• Installation of ceramic birds mainly African Grey parrots and later small fictional garden birds in various locations in London and abroad to include: a tree outside the Westbourne pub, with local council’s assistance, in West London; a refuge hostel; a potter’s shop, Clapham; the top of a mast on a sailing boat; an artist’s squat in Grosvenor Street, W1– with collaborative performative based work and group exhibition; in Spain and in Holland, 2006-2012
• Appropriating a Francis Bacon oil painting, titled ‘Maiden Voyage’, with a convicted forger, turned Sky Arts TV presenter, John Myatt – latterly exhibited at Chelsea College of Arts, London, 2005/2006
ARTISTIC CAREER HIGHLIGHTS TO DATE
Education
2018 Postgraduate diploma course, The Bigger Picture, Essential School of Painting, London E3 with tutors Bob and Roberta Smith OBE RA, Alison Harper and Johanna Melvin
2006 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Sculpture, (2:1) Chelsea College of the Arts, Manresa Rd and Millbank
2003 Foundation in Art, Distinction, Chelsea College of the Art, Bagley’s Lane, London SW6
2002 Painting and Life drawing classes, Putney School of Art, London
2000 Foundation in Fashion, Merit, London College of Fashion, London E2
