Priscilla Hunter is an artist and jewellery maker based in Auckland, and has recently completed her MFA at Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design. She has been greatly influenced by her travel experiences, where she explored parts of the Americas, Northern Africa and Europe. Her current practice involves creating precise, overly saturated paintings and soft sculptural fabric works. The work is made with the desire to create a reflection of desert. The simulated desert landscape is inspired by reality on varying levels, but ultimately doesn’t exist in the physical world; instead it is a construct, built from a lifetime of gathered knowledge and imagery—a desert that isn’t really a desert at all, like a mirage, it’s more of a figment of the imagination.
Previous exhibitions:
2021 – Borrowed Soul
Alternating Current, Windsor, Melbourne
2020 – Psychedelia & Gardening
Grey, Grey Lynn, Auckland
2019 – Acid House Desert Trench Coat
State Gallery, Mt Eden, Auckland
2018 – State Highway (group)
State Gallery, Mt Eden, Auckland
2018 – Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Awards Exhibition
Sanderson Contemporary, Newmarket, Auckland
2018 – FINALE – Whitecliffe MFA Grad Show
St. Georges Bay Road Studios, Parnell, Auckland
2017 – 3rd XThree & 5th XOne (group)
IWT Projectspace, Pt. Chevalier, Auckland
2017 – Peyote
Malcolm Smith (Showcase wall), Howick, Auckland
2016 – (PPPPP)Painting Show (group)
DEMO, Eden Terrace, Auckland
2013 – Exotica
Uxbridge, Howick, Auckland
2013 – Over & Over (group)
ArtStation, Ponsonby, Auckland
2012 – El Summer
Collaboration with Huffer @ New Zealand Fashion Week 2012
2012 – Viaje del Corazón
Corner Gallery, K Rd, Auckland