Rhiannon Hunter is an artist, based London, UK. Her artistic practice uses forms of storying through film, text, sound and installation to explore relationships between people, non-human agents and places that are formed through networks of encounter, co-existence and contradictions. Hunter engages 'noticing' and collage as methodologies for capturing fleeting interactions, joy, connectivity and wonder that generate associations across personal scales. Recent audio and film works include inviting groups to take part in recreational activities in a defunct commercial premises, working with a volunteer group engaged in land management in urban municipal parks, and an immersive soundscape of decomposing waste.
Her work and projects have been commissioned by Art in the Gardens at the Horniman Museum, London (2023), Royal College of Art, South London Gallery, Signal Film and Media (2021), Festival Stoke (2020), Estuary 21 festival, Deptford X festival. Hunter is a recipient of the Florence Trust Residency London (2019) and London Creative Network Space Studios (2019). Hunter WAS Junior Fellow for the MA Art & Ecology programme at Goldsmiths University, London. Prior to joining the MA Art & Ecology (2022-2023), she was awarded a Diploma in Higher Education in MFA Fine Art (2022) and a BA Textiles (2009) from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Education
2022-2023 / Masters in Art and Ecology, Goldsmiths, University of London
2020-2022 / Diploma in Higher Education from Masters in Fine Arts, Goldsmiths, London
2005-2008 / BA Textiles, Goldsmiths College, University of London
SURFACE MATTERS
Hunter is founder of Surface Matters, an artist led platform started in 2019 to create a space for peer-to-peer dialogue, learning and visibility for intergenerational under-represented artists. Surface Matters works with artists that are concerned with materiality and human connections to space, examining where we find ourselves situated physically, emotionally, and culturally. Surface Matters is ever-evolving, learning and shifting. Surface Matters creates opportunities to share projects with audiences along with running closed group micro projects.
https://www.thisissurfacematters.com
hunterhiannon (at) outlook.com