Showcase: Kevin Hunt

Kevin Hunt is a sculptor based at The Royal Standard, an artist-led gallery, studios and social workspace in Liverpool, and is a former director of the organisation. Constructing sculpture utilising the found and redundant, his works reconfigure the detritus that surrounds us into linear and increasingly minimal structures that come to balance or are propped precariously.

A recent preoccupation with both handling and moving things around has come to manifest itself in an ongoing series of works that reveal aninnate complexity within the simplest of actions, gestures and forms, exposing an inherent beauty in the unnoticed, while playfully tampering with the poetics of the found form.

Kevin has exhibited widely across the UK and abroad, concurrently working on a numberof curatorial projects alongside his practice asan artist including co-founding CAVE, Liverpool's inaugural contemporary art fair presented duringthe opening weekend of Liverpool Biennial 2012 and easy does it, a three part evolving exhibition touring key artist-led spaces across the UK throughout 2013. Kevin is currently shortlistedfor the 2013 Liverpool Art Prize.

“I’m really interested in the point where an object stops being just an object and becomes sculpture, becomes art. These things, before that gesture occurred, are often considered naff or tacky or construed as defunct in some way, sourcing unwanted materials in charity shops, junkyards or on eBay.

“In fact the materiality and form that much of the stuff I come to use is comprised of is often really immaculate; having a certain sophistication that I believe bypasses any connotation of being just a shitty necklace for instance, and I like to think in becoming sculpture, this inherent sophistication is revealed and the objects are now free to exist as the things that they really are.”

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