Kenny Hunter b. 1962

Born in Edinburgh in 1962, Kenny Hunter studied sculpture at Glasgow School of Art between 1983 and 1987; following that he went on to study classical sculpture at the British School in Athens. Since then, he has exhibited extensively in Britain and abroad including solo exhibitions at Arnolfini, Bristol; Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, CCA and Tramway, both in Glasgow. Hunter has also created a number of high profile, public commissioned works in including; Citizen Firefighter, 2001, outside Glasgow’s Central Station and Youth with Split Apple, 2005, at Kings College, Aberdeen. In London he has created three major public works: iGoat, 2010 in Spitalfields; Blackbird (the persistence of vision) for Leicester Square, 2016 and The Southwark Memorial to War and Reconciliation, 2018.

In Edinburgh, in 2022, he was commissioned to create a covid memorial at the Royal College of Surgeons, entitled Your Next Breath, for which he received the Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture in 2023.

In 2008 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Aberdeen University. Kenny Hunter is currently a Lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art where he was Programme Director of Sculpture from 2014 to 2017, then Director of Outreach from 2018 to 2021.

He describes his practice as "an ongoing effort to deconstruct the monument as a permanent symbol of political and historic progress and instead re-present it as a form in flux, open to varied interpretation." Hunter's work has been shown in international solo exhibitions, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors.

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