Emily Hunt: das schwerste Gewicht
Get lost in Hunt’s miniature worlds, if you dare.
Overview
Sydney artist Emily Hunt is bringing her latest exhibition das schwerste Gewicht (The Heaviest Weight) to Melbourne, featuring new examples of dioramas, drawings, etchings and ceramics. Hunt’s art focuses on both the grotesque and the ornamental, as she builds from her incredible piece from last year, ‘Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence’. That work featured a giant kinetic train set that from a distance appeared to be a saccharine coloured utopia. On closer inspection, however, the story is considerably darker, and in some instances brutally damning.
Hunt works primarily in printmaking (specifically, etching), watercolour, collage and ceramics. Her new pieces for Chapter House Lane will refer back to the train set, in a response to what she sees in the world around her – from great injustices to the disappointingly bland. Get lost in Hunt’s miniature worlds, if you dare.
Image: Emily Hunt, Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence, 2014, plaster, ceramics, plastic, found objects, enamel paint, 2.4 x 2.4 metres. Image courtesy the artist and The Commercial, Sydney. Photo by Brenton McGeachie. Emily Hunt is represented by The Commercial, Sydney.
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