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ON NOW
This Could Happen To You
  Ikon in the 1970s
IKON GALLERY BIRMINGHAM


An exhibition of work shown at the Ikon in the 1970s, curator .

"Political commitment was important to many who felt that the crises being played
out in Vietnam and Northern Ireland could not be ignored in artistic practice,
reflected at Ikon by Stuart Brisley’s performance You Know it Makes Sense (with
reference to allegations made against the British Army in Ulster concerning torture)
(1972). Feminism and gay rights were urgent, and so too race and class
discrimination. Alexis Hunter’s slide projection Domestic Warfare (1979), Anne
Pullinger’s felt banners (Tatlin Banner, 1975) celebrating the Bolshevik Revolution
and participatory works by John Dugger and David Medalla all point to shifts in
artistic practice, where activism took place through then unconventional means of
expression."


Alexis Hunter's 'Domestic warefare' sequence 1979 and The Object Series 1974 will be shown.


The exhibition opens on 20 July. Last day to catch it is 5 SEPTEMBER 2010.

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ON NOW
Arts, 25a Camberwell Church Street, South London
 
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  ArtsBar, Camberwell


Invite to Private View ArtsBar, Camberwell Thursday 29th July from 7pm

An exhibition of photography and video works focused on masculinity, curator Alex Brew.


featuring artists Oreet Ashery, Alex Brew, Rosie Gunn, Alexis Hunter, Derek Jackson, Del LaGrace Volcano and Grace Lau. The party night will include a performance by boylesque performer British Heart.

Combining work spanning 30 years, the exhibition includes images last exhibited in London in the 70s.
Alexis Hunter's 'Approach to Fear XVII: Masculinisation of Society - exorcise' was last shown in London at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1979, the same year it was banned from Ireland. She will also show new, previously unshown work featuring Stuckist ringleader Charles Thomson.


The exhibition opens on 26th July. Last day to catch it is 8th August.

 

 

'No such Thing As Society'
opens at the
National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff 4 July - 4 October 2009

Artists included:
Keith Arnatt, John Benton Harris, Ian Berry, Derek Boshier, Victor Burgin, Vanley Burke, David Butterworth, David Chadwick, Tarik Chawdry, John Davies, Ian Dobbie, Peter Fraser, Gilbert & George, Paul Graham, Brian Griffin, Christine Hobbeheydar, Alexis Hunter, Phillip Jones-Griffiths, Chris Killip, Bob Long, Markéta Luskacová, Ron McCormick, Peter Marlow, Daniel Meadows, Peter Mitchell, Raymond Moore, Tish Murtha, Martin Parr, Gilles Peress, Tony Ray-Jones, Jurgen Schadeberg, Graham Smith, Chris Steele-Perkins, Homer Sykes, Paul Trevor.

 

 
 

Henry Armytage Sanders, 1918 Royal NZ Returned and services Association Collection

À vous jeunes désabusés,
À vous de porter l'oriflamme
Et de garder au fond de l'âme
Le goût de vivre en liberté.
Acceptez le défi, sinon
Les coquelicots se faneront

Au champ d'honneur.
lieutenant-colonel John McCrae

'We Passed By' multimedia installation shown in Pas de Calais, France.
Includes WW1 photographs from New Zealand Soldiers (with permission from the Alexander Turnbull Library New Zealand)
11th of to 13th September 2009
artist's statement
 

 

 

'We Are Unsuitable For Framing' at The National Gallery of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- will include the artists Alexis Hunter, Judy Darragh, Margaret Dawson, Jacqueline Fraser, Christine Hellyar, Christine Webster , Hye Rim Lee, Vivian Lynn, Lauren Lysaght, Julia Morison, Anne Noble, Fiona Pardington, Lisa Reihana, Caroline Rothwell and Barbara Kruger.
The exhibition presents a group of works that address aspect of how we perform and represent ourselves. The works explore aspect of identity, the feminine, the masculine, sexuality and mythology.
Charotte Huddleston, Curator Contemporary Art, Te Papa.
20th of December 2008 to mid-April 2009

 

20 image Approach to Fear III:Taboo - demystify photgraphic narrative sequence, detail no. 14

 
The National Gallery of New Zealand Te Papa has purchased two major Feminist Art Movement photographic series by Alexis Hunter, 'The Object Series 1974' and the 'Approach to Fear III: Taboo demystify 1976' narrative sequence, from Whitespace Gallery, Auckland.

 

Marina from Karma with Alexis Hunter's 'Contamination 1976'

 

 

KARMA INTERNATIONAL showing Alexis Hunter's photography at OPEN SPACE COLOGNE IN GERMANY April 2008

 

 
Hunter's Domestic Warfare photographic narrative sequence, a 100 image performance-photowork is to be shown for the first time in the Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition since 'Three Perspectives of Photography'.
Catalogue by Hayward Publishing,'No such Thing as Society' ISBN 978-1-85332-265-5

 


'Yes, No, Maybe' is a photographic series on sexual attraction in 1973-4, street photographs taken in New York and London with the (female) photgrapher as voyeur.

 

 

 

 
Talk, 'Romantic Love and Sexual Hatred',10th Nov, 3pm, by Alexis Hunter at Winterthur, near Zurich in Switzerland during 'Aggression' Exhibition co-curated by Oliver Kielmayer and Dimitrina Sevova ''The Object Series' about the heterosexual female gaze and 'Dialogue with a Rapist' about racism and sexism on the street ...
Samstag,10. November,15 Uhr, Vorlesung und Prasentation ihrer Arbeit: in englischer Sprache: Radikaler Feminismus in the 1970ern / Sexuelle Kriegsfuhrung - Romantische Liebe und sexueller Hass.
'The Object Series', a 25 foot panel of paintings on canvas, on the objectifcation of men, working class culture and Art History, 1974 -5
Radical Feminist Painting 'Object Series' shown in Wack! at the National Museum of Women in The Arts in Washington DC USA
An abundance of insights," by Christopher Knight of the LA Times, April 29, 2007
"Thanks to the beautifully rendered Photorealist style, a lush assertion of feminine power enhances the erotic edge of its otherwise masculine imagery" Christopher Knight
Hunter interviewed about The Object Series on National Broadcasting News, NBC TV. 7/3/2007 (USA)

 

The Model's Revenge, photographic series on voyerism, the status of women in art, and Feminism.

 
2007 Radical Feminism in Dealer Gallery in Auckland New Zealand
www.whitespace.co.nz
"FEMINIST ART BUYS A FIGHT"- Wednesday April 04, 2007
By Adam Gifford Article in the NZ Herald
"It's a side-on shot of a male torso, naked from the waist up, leather trousered below, hand on hip holding a cigarette, New York's twin towers in ghostly shadow behind".
The New Zealand Herald

 

Back cover of the artist's book Alexis Hunter Radical Feminism in the 1970s

 
Alexis Hunter/ Radical Feminism in the 1970s
published by Norwich Gallery, Editor Lynda Morris.,
or order from this website here

 

wikipedia/alexis_hunter

 

for archive page on earlier shows go here

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