Kevin Hunt
I make sculptures that use found or appropriated objects, particularly furniture, which I alter, giving way to a transformation of the objects visual appearance and a shift in the visual associations it has for the viewer. Sometimes these alterations are completely premeditated and other times they turn out to be more casual, allowing for serendipitous happenings.
During my residency at St Nicholas’s Parish Church I have been working with pieces of old, discarded wooden furniture. It became apparent to me that the building itself had a chequered history, a history of falling down and being rebuilt, a history of being destroyed by bomb and being rebuilt, in fact the church has been rebuilt several times since its foundation in medieval times. I began ripping apart and then reassembling the bits of furniture, which have now themselves been rebuilt several times. It is this futile act that has occupied me for the duration of the residency, attempting to put these things completely back together and never really being able to.
Via these transformations, the work becomes a vehicle to play with the ambivalence of our associations and accepted perceptual structures, whilst exposing the inherent beauty that lies within the objects used. Precariously ready to break and therefore change further after I leave, these sculptures have no definite end point, a common factor occurring within all my work.
