Maggie Hunter

I studied Fine Art at The University of Northumbria (BA) and at the University of Sunderland (MA). My sculpture and installation work is usually centred in the body. I work with traces: traces of time and memory and traces of the body in the form of casts or residues. Sometimes the objects I make carry a sense of a personal archaeology as if they have just been dug up or brought in by the tide. Materials are dictated by what I want to communicate. So you might see my work in bronze or bread, in wax or stiffened thread, in womens' hair or cloth dipped in porcelain.

Group Exhibitions

2008 January18-February 23 Open Arts Competition Black Swan Arts, Frome Somerset

2006 March 31-May 28 New Blood Saltburn Artist's Projects, Saltburn

2006 March 24-31 Art at Antioch House Durham.

2004 March 2-19 Can You Imagine Nissan Motor Manufacturing Plant Sunderland.

2003 February 8-March7, Body of Work 2003 the People Show, Northumbria University Gallery, Newcastle.

2002 July Fresh Art, The Business Design Centre, London.

2002 July-August 25x25, Exhibition of Small Works, University of Northumbria Gallery Newcastle.

2001 May 2-5, Epiphanies, Holy Jesus Hospital, Newcastle.

2000 April 12-15 Skin Deep Newcastle College Project Space Newcastle.

Residencies

2005 Oct-Dec. Artist in Residence Fountain Court, for BALTIC Centre For Contemporary Art Gateshead.

Workshops and Tutoring

In addition to my art practice I am a freelance workshop leader and tutor predominantly for The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education in London. I co-tutor sculpture workshops for Marlborough College Summer School in Wiltshire.

Contact

hunter-wightwick@lineone.net
01373 300285