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CLICK ADS FOR MORE INFO BA (Hons) Fine Art & FdA Creative Art Practice Graduate Shows at UWE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES IT'S GOnna BE MO MONSTER! 14-21 June Sat/Sun: 11am-3pm Mon-Fri: 11am-7pm College Road Campus Private View 6 June 2014 18.00 —21.00 General Opening 7—12 June 2014 Free to all! Bower Ashton Campus & Spike Island www.uwe.ac.uk/degreeshow See our website at www.hca.ac.uk for further details a-n degreeshowfinalprint4.indd 1 06/04/2014 09:06 20
PERSPECTIVES Kevin Hunt, artist and curator “I made quite a lot of sculptures that contained huge amounts of wet paint, and then they’d dry over a period of months or weeks. They weren’t particularly eloquent!” Kevin Hunt is remembering the work he made as a BA fine art student at the North Wales School of Art and Design, Wrexham. He graduated in 2005. “I was grappling with the idea of making an art object with a sense of mutability,” he says. “I’m quite pleased in retrospect I was at a small college and there weren’t lots of people seeing my work – the pressure was very much just about me and the work rather than me and the world.” Based in his hometown of Liverpool since graduating, Hunt is a former director of The Royal Standard, an artist-led studio, gallery and social workspace where he also now has his studio. A champion of artist-led activity, he is a practicing artist, curator and visiting lecturer across the country. And while he has some reservations about his own degree show – “Looking back, I wasn’t really making the work I want to make now” – he has a keen interest in what’s coming out of the UK’s art schools, particularly those outside London. “Degree shows are bit like a circus – all kinds of peculiar things happen, some of them utterly dreadful while others can be amazing. The thing that I love is when you see something that is great and you think, if this is what they’re doing at this point in their career, what will they do in the next two, three, five years” As for what makes a memorable fine art degree show, Hunt is adamant that it’s the students who are already thinking as artists – who aren’t bound by educational requirements – that are most likely to impress. “The most interesting students at a degree show are the ones that bypass the idea that it’s this culmination of the last three years and instead just treat it like another show. What’s really exciting is when you meet students who are already operating as artists, presenting work, putting on shows, working with other artists away from their close set of peers at art college.” That said, Hunt acknowledges that the weight of expectation generated by the degree show season is hard to resist. “There’s a sense of momentum that leads up to it which is just exciting,” he says. “But when a student rests all their hopes on the degree show, their own expectations aren’t likely to be met. It’s just a fleeting moment, a tiny part of an artist’s career. And of course you’re also limited by your own knowledge at that time – you don’t really know what is possible yet.” 1 Easy does it, installation view, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, 2013, curated by Kevin Hunt 2 Kevin Hunt, The Money Cactus, pre-painted wood and tempered steel, 2013 3 1 2 Kevin Hunt 3 21
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