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Name
  
Tom Hunter


Role
  
Artist

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Artwork
  
The Death of Coltelli, Eve of the Party

Education
  
London College of Communication, Royal College of Art

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Tom Hunter (born 1965 in Bournemouth, UK) is a London-based artist working in photography and film. His photographs often reference and reimagine classical paintings. He studied at the London College of Printing, and was the first photographer to have a one-man show at the National Gallery, London.

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Hunter has shown work internationally in exhibitions, his work is held in a number of public collections and he has had four books published. He has won various awards including an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.

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Life and work

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His work has specialised in documenting life in Hackney, depicting local issues and sensationalist news headlines with compositions borrowed from the Old Masters. For instance, his photograph of a squatter, Woman Reading a Possession Order, references Johannes Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. This photograph won the Kobal Photographic Portrait Award in 1998. Of the photograph, which was shot with a large-format camera and printed in Ilfochrome process, Hunter said:

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"I just wanted to take a picture showing the dignity of squatter life – a piece of propaganda to save my neighbourhood....The great thing is, the picture got a dialogue going with the council – and we managed to save the houses.
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In 2010 Hunter screened A Palace for Us, a film he made about the elderly residents of public buildings in Woodberry Down, Manor House, London. Jonathan Jones described it as a 'magical' work of contemporary art that chronicled the postwar ambition to provide housing for the working class.

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He works at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre in London.

Books

  • Factory Built Homes: Holly Street Estate 1968-1998. Holly Street Public Arts Trust, 1998. ISBN 978-0953321506.
  • Tom Hunter. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2003. ISBN 978-3-7757-1277-4. Edited by White Cube, texts by Michael Bracewell and Paul Shepheard, essays by Jean Wainwright.
  • Tom Hunter: Living in Hell and Other Stories. Newhaven, CT: Yale University Press; London: National Gallery, 2005. ISBN 9781857093315.
  • The Way Home. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2012. ISBN 978-3-7757-3456-1.
  • Le Crowbar. Stockport: Here Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9574724-5-7. Edition of 1000 copies.

    • Exhibitions

  • Living in Hell and Other Stories, National Gallery, London.
  • Tableaux Vivants, Kunsthalle, Vienna.
  • Composure, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto.
  • Parallax, Sandronirey Gallery, California.
  • 2007: group exhibition of work about the London borough of Hackney by eight artists.

    • Awards

  • 1998: Kobal Photographic Portrait Award for Woman Reading a Possession Order.
  • 2004: John Kobal Photographic Book Award 2003 for Tom Hunter.
  • 2010: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.

    • Collections

    Hunter's work is held by the following public collections:

  • National Gallery, London.
  • Museum of Modern Art.
  • Smithsonian Institution.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum.
  • Moderna Museet.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

    • References

    Tom Hunter (artist) Wikipedia
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