Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunters individual research is an exploration of his adult experiences of industrial work and how that has been coloured by childhood memories of his grandfather, a shipyard coppersmith. It focuses upon the ambivalent nature of human labour and the idea of alienation, where the human element in the production process becomes obscured. In recent exhibitions Steve has worked with Colin Parker, Scott Laverie, Paul Penrice and Jamie Miller, investigating the Enlightenment and its consequences, taking as a starting point the writing of Theodor Adorno about civilization’s tendency towards self-destruction.
“Enlightenment, understood as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.” TA
Stephen Hunter, Born 1964, graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1987 from the Tapestry department with a Diploma of Postgraduate Studies (awarded with distinction) and has since then exhibited widely in the UK as well as Russian, Japan and Germany.
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