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Erin Hunt is a Canadian artist currently living and working on Fogo Island. Her paintings are a material exploration of picture-making as a generative conversation between found ephemera and abstract notational mark-making. Within the work is an interest in the formation of identity, specifically the psychological, mythological and material aspects of that process in painting. Conventions of planning, translation, and display such as the architectural drawing (plan/section/elevation/model) and the assemblage/collage, are playful elements that feed the painting process and its spatial configurations. The abstract means of finding or building the painting through specific imagery and a relational material process, reflect on ideas of mothering, healing, nature and impermanence.
I approach the paintings elementally and think of them as feeling landscapes that hold particular relationships (among colours, materials, forms), each creating a very specific resonance or space. They are perhaps scores, or holders of information, like a song or assembly of sounds. There is a fundamental aspiration somewhere in what I'm doing that relates to beauty as a feeling of love and truth held simultaneously in an object that has the potential to be healing. The material results are approximations, and often end up being more about the discoveries that happen in the gap between that aspiration and its unattainability. It's a mysterious process that involves a lot of false moves and a certain trust that it will work itself out eventually if I just keep paying attention. In this way there is an ever-evolving potential for play and surprise and it's acceptable not to know exactly what the paintings are.
Erin received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Ottawa, and a Masters degree in Architecture from Dalhousie University. Before moving to Newfoundland with her partner and their children in 2012, Erin lived in London and New York. Hunt's paintings have been exhibited in Canada and internationally and were recently acquired by the City of Ottawa Art Collection. Her current work includes a painting project funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the study of healing plants and flowers.
I approach the paintings elementally and think of them as feeling landscapes that hold particular relationships (among colours, materials, forms), each creating a very specific resonance or space. They are perhaps scores, or holders of information, like a song or assembly of sounds. There is a fundamental aspiration somewhere in what I'm doing that relates to beauty as a feeling of love and truth held simultaneously in an object that has the potential to be healing. The material results are approximations, and often end up being more about the discoveries that happen in the gap between that aspiration and its unattainability. It's a mysterious process that involves a lot of false moves and a certain trust that it will work itself out eventually if I just keep paying attention. In this way there is an ever-evolving potential for play and surprise and it's acceptable not to know exactly what the paintings are.
Erin received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Ottawa, and a Masters degree in Architecture from Dalhousie University. Before moving to Newfoundland with her partner and their children in 2012, Erin lived in London and New York. Hunt's paintings have been exhibited in Canada and internationally and were recently acquired by the City of Ottawa Art Collection. Her current work includes a painting project funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the study of healing plants and flowers.
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