CONTENTS
6 Director’s Foreword 8 Pretty Strangers 1 9 Pretty Strangers 2 10 Pretty Strangers 3 11 Pretty Strangers 4 12 Hiding Today 14 New Hiding Place 16 Swampland 18 Who’s That Riding 22 Buffalo Soldiers 24 You Skip Around 26 Barrenjoey Lighthouse 28 Bronte to Bondi 30 Biography 36 Price List
DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD
The Cat Street Gallery is extremely proud to present a brand new exhibition of thrilling paintings by Australian artist, Todd Hunter. Country Feedback showcases Hunter’s latest creations, bursting forth from their canvas and paper surfaces in colorful, frenetic symphonies of form and painterly texture. Hunter continues to carve out his position in Australia, and internationally, as one of the most ardent and skilled painters of his generation. With an unstoppable gestural charge in his pieces, Hunter presents works that aim to be totemic - once created they come alive in the eye of the beholder - revealing and unravelling whatever lies within. Channelling the vision and pace of great painters before him, like de Kooning and Hodgkin, he draws inspiration from the three key elements in his life - the omnipresent Australian landscape of his home, the heart-strings of family and children, and music. All these come together in his paintings as a discovery into what it is to search for the figurative in abstract - to find order out of chaos - to see and embrace naivety as purified understanding. Described as an ‘alchemist of form’, Hunter manipulates, caresses, and orchestrates the paint on canvas - treading a pleasing line between violence and calm. His works display a highly skillful use of brushstrokes, composition and color, and so prove Hunter’s unabashed talent for bringing life to a canvas. With works sought by international collectors and institutions alike, we greatly look forward to welcoming you to view the works in person here in Hong Kong. Mandy d’Abo Founder and Director The Cat Street Gallery
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Plate 1: Pretty Strangers 1 Oil on paper 61 x 86 cm 2012
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Plate 2: Pretty Strangers 2 Oil on paper 61 x 86 cm 2012
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Plate 3: Pretty Strangers 3 Oil on paper 61 x 86 cm 2012
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Plate 4: Pretty Strangers 4 Oil on paper 61 x 86 cm 2012
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Plate 5: Hiding Today Oil on canvas 122 x 128 cm 2012
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Plate 6: New Hiding Place Oil on canvas 122 x 128 cm 2012
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Plate 7: Swampland Oil on canvas 134 x 140 cm 2012
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Plate 8: Who’s That Riding Oil on canvas 134 x 140 cm 2012
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Plate 9: Buffalo Soldiers
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Oil on canvas 160 x 183 cm 2012
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Plate 10: You Skip Around Oil on canvas 160 x 183 cm 2012
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Plate 11: Barrenjoey Lighthouse Oil on canvas 122 x 128 cm 2012
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Plate 12: Bronte to Bondi Oil on canvas 122 x 128 cm 2012
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BIOGRAPHY
Born in Brisbane in 1972 Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 Small Work, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne Recent Works, BMGArt Gallery, Adelaide 2010 Melbourne Art Fair 2010, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne Love Buzz, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney 2009 In Bloom, Gallery 2, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney Recent Paintings, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne 2008 Strange Weather, BMGArt Gallery, Adelaide This Perfect Day, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne 2007 All Times Through Paradise, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney 2006 Just Like the Night, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne BMGArt Gallery, Adelaide 2005 Recent Paintings, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney 2004 Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne 2003 Recent Paintings, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney 2002 BMGArt Gallery, Adelaide Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne 2001 Art House Gallery, Sydney 2000 BMGArt Gallery, Adelaide Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane Art House Gallery, Sydney 1999 Art House Gallery, Sydney
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1998 Smith and Stoneley on Stratton, Brisbane Art House Gallery, Sydney 1997 Fortitude Gallery, Brisbane 1996 Fortitude Gallery, Brisbane 1994 The Vine Galleria, Brisbane
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 Melbourne Art Fair 2012, Scott Livesey Galleries 2011
Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize, South Australia ArtHK11, Hong Kong International Art Fair, GRANTPIRRIE Gallery Grantpirrie Editions, Suite One Art for Science, Murdoch Research Institute, Nellie Castan Gallery Wattle, Australian Contemporary Art, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 Art Of Music, Art Gallery of New South Wales Hong Kong International Art Fair, Cat Street Gallery 2009 Salon des Refusés, Wynne Prize, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney Art for Science, Murdoch Research Institute, Nellie Castan Gallery Paddington Landscape Art Prize, Sydney 2008 Fleurieu Art Prize, Fleurieu Biennale, South Australia Tattersall’s Club Art Prize, Brisbane Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery 2007
Paddington Landscape Art Prize, Sydney Tattersall’s Club Art Prize, Brisbane Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery Kings School Art Prize, Parramatta, Sydney
2006 Ironic Expressionism, Curator, Andrew Frost, Virginia Wilson Gallery, Sydney 2005 ABN Amro Emerging Artist Award, Sydney 2004 Tattersall’s Club Invitation Art Prize, Brisbane 2003 The Year In Art, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney Tattersall’s Club Invitation Art Prize, Brisbane 2002 Twenty Fine Paintings, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne
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2001 Twenty Fine Paintings, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne 2000 Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, Sydney 1999 Inaugural Exhibition, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane Inaugural Schools and Universities Prize Exhibition, Schools and Universities Club, Sydney 1998 Flesh: Collections of Sensual & Erotic Art, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland 1997 Global Art: Australia Beyond, Carpediem Gallery, Thailand The First Brisbane International Art Fair, Brisbane Downlands College Art Awards, Toowoomba, Queensland 1996 Preview, Fortitude Gallery, Brisbane Asia Pacific Hotel Art Fair, Brisbane Stanthorpe Arts Festival, Stanthorpe, Queensland 1995 Gilchrist Galleries, Brisbane Churchie Exhibition of Emerging Art, Brisbane 1994 Ten Figurative Artists, Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney Logan National Art Award, Logan 1993 Rebels Without a Course, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane Believers, Isnt, Brisbane Griffith University Drawing Exhibition, Brisbane 1992 Final Configuration, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane Free Trade, Isnt, Brisbane Art = Aura, Space Plenitude, Brisbane 1991 Three Positions, Space Plenitude, Brisbane
SELECTED AWARDS 2011 Finalist, Fleurieu Art Prize 2009 Salon des Refuses (Wynne Prize) Finalist, Paddington Art Prize 2008 Finalist, Fleurieu Art Prize Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2007 Finalist, Paddington Art Prize Finalist, Tattersall’s Art Prize Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize Finalist, Kings School Art Prize 32
2005 Finalist, ABN Amro Emerging Artist Award 2000 Finalist, Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney 1994 Finalist, Logan National Art Award, Logan 1993 Melville Haysom Scholarship, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Inaugural Griffith University Artistcare Drawing Prize, Griffith University, Brisbane Best Bachelor of Visual Arts Award, Griffith University, Brisbane
COLLECTIONS
ABN Amro Corporate Collection, Sydney Art Bank Art Gallery of New South Wales The Adelaide Club Collection, Adelaide Griffith University Art Gallery Brisbane The QCL Collection, Queensland The Alex Mackay Collection, Brisbane Royal Sydney Golf Club Collection Hotel CBD, Sydney The Sangster Collection, NSW The Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney Embassy of Switzerland, Bangkok Embassy of Australia, Bangkok Corporate Collections; NSW, Victoria, Queensland Private Collections; Australia, UK, USA, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2010
Natalie King, ‘Raucous Rock: The Paintings of Todd Hunter’, Catalogue Essay, Melbourne Art Fair Darryn King, ‘Reimagining Music’, DRUM Media, 28th March David Broker, ‘Let’s Get Physical’, Catalogue Essay, Love Buzz Ashley Crawford, ‘Le Petit Mort’, Catalogue Essay Love Buzz
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Ashley Crawford, ‘TODD HUNTER: Nailing the Gesture’, Australian Art Collector Issue 48 Ebony Bizys, Betsy Brennan, Artist Profile, Vogue Living, March April
John McDonald, ‘When Losers are Winners’, Review of Salon des Refuses, March 14
2008 Jena Woodburn, ‘Strange, but True art’, The Independent Weekly, Oct 17-23 Megan Backhouse, Art Around the Galleries, The Age, May 3, 2008 Ashley Crawford, ‘This Perfect Day’, Catalogue Essay, February 08
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2007 Le Flaneur, ‘The Beauty of Incomprehension’, August 05 2006 Ashley Crawford, Preview, Art Collector Magazine, October, Issue 38 Ashley Crawford, ’Just Like the Night’, exhibition catalogue, July 2005 Clare Lewis, ‘Recent Paintings’, exhibition catalogue, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney Andrew Frost, ‘Todd, On Bass’, The Art Life, May 11 2004 Annie Leo, ‘Todd Hunter - The Art of Abstraction’, Attitude Magazine, Winter Megan Morton, ‘Art and Soul’, The Sun Herald Magazine, April 11 2003 Jonathan Turner, ‘In The Flesh’, Blue Magazine, No 45 July 2002 Emma Zakarevicius, ‘Todd Hunter at BMG’, dB Magazine, September 11 2001 Lenny Ann Low. ‘How on Earth’, the Sydney Morning Herald, November 3 John Neylon, ‘Pulsating’, The Adelaide Review, January 2000 Peter Anderson, ‘Regarding the Familiar’, Courier Mail, September Courtney Kidd, ‘Throwing in the Trowel’, The Sydney Morning Herald, April 11 1997 Thomas Brecelic, Bangkok Post, September 25 Sue Smith, ‘Todd’s new world is looking good’, Courier Mail, June 25 Snapshots, ABC TV, June 24 1996 Chris Worfold, ‘Recent Paintings’ exhibition catalogue, Fortitude Gallery, Brisbane 1995 Gravity, Issue 3, April 1993 ‘Scholarship Artist Takes up Residency at Gallery’, The Weekend Independent, Ian Howard Artistcare Drawing Prize, catalogue Pat Hoffe, Final Configuration Exhibition Catalogue, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
EDUCATION
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1989 – 1992
Bachelor Visual Arts, Griffith University, Brisbane
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Julian Ashton Art School Sydney
1986 – 1996
Studied with David Paulson, Brisbane (with the exception of 1990)
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