Exhibition History
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Man-Made Artis Gallery Auckland
2021 The Smell of Rain Artis Gallery Auckland
2019 Tussock Artis Gallery Auckland
2018 Stormfront Milford Galleries Queenstown
2013 The Longest Road Milford Galleries Queenstown
2011 The Backlands Milford Galleries Dunedin
2010 Central Milford Galleries Queenstown
2009 Flight Milford Galleries Dunedin, Auckland
New Works MG, Auckland
2008 Summit Fever Milford Galleries Dunedin
2007 The Ochre Triangle II Milford galleries Queenstown
The Ochre Triangle Milford Galleries Dunedin
New Work The Art House, Christchurch
2006 Trail of Dreams Ferner Gallery, Auckland
Art House, Christchurch
2005 Beneath the Surface Ferner Gallery, Wellington
2004 Brown Velvet Ferner Gallery, WellingtonLands End, Ferner Gallery, Auckland
2003 Into Shadow Ferner Gallery, Wellington
A Reflection of Time Ferner Gallery, Auckland
2002 Valleys of the Lindis Ferner Gallery, Wellington
New Work Ferner Gallery, Auckland
2001 The Distant Landscape Ferner Gallery, Wellington
2000 Face of the Land Ferner Gallery, Wellington
Road to Erewhon Ferner Gallery, Auckland
1999 Suter Society Guest Artist, Suter Gallery, Nelson
Edge of the World Ferner Gallery, Auckland
1998 Ferner Gallery, Auckland
Ferner Gallery, Wellington
1997 45 Degrees South Ferner Gallery, Wellington
1988 North Molesworth Gallery, Wellington
1986 Molesworth Gallery, Wellington
1984 Moray Gallery, Dunedin
1983 Molesworth Gallery, Wellington
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Review, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2014/15 Summer Show, Milford Galleries Dunedin
The Earl St Journal, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2014 The Review, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2013/14 Summer Show, Milford Galleries Queenstown
The Earl St Journal, Milford Galleries Queenstown
The Review, Milford Galleries Dunedin
New Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin
The Royal Queenstown Easter Show
2012 Hight/Frazer/Hunt, Milford Galleries, Queenstown
Chosen, Milford Galleries, Queenstown
Naturally Urbane, Artis Gallery, Auckland
2011 The New Field, Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne Australia
2010 The Earl Street Journal, Milford galleries Queenstown
2009 Southern Traverse, Milford galleries Queenstown
Southern Landscape, Milford galleries Queenstown
2008 Richard Dunlop, Bruce Hunt & Hannah Kidd, Milford galleries Auckland
Summer Show, Milford Galleries Dunedin
Selected Works, Milford galleries Queenstown
2007 Masterworks 2007, Milford galleries Queenstown
Looking South, Milford Galleries Dunedin
Two Artists; Paintings of Central Otago. Bruce Hunt & David Barker, Business Advisory Group, Auckland
2006 Summer Show, Milford Galleries DunedinLocation South, Milford galleries Queenstown
2005 Southern Landscape, Milford Galleries Dunedin
1996 Coutts Mercedes, Auckland
1985 NZ Academy of Fine Arts Group Show, Wellington
Bruce Hunt: A Communion with the Land
From a distance I see a man striding along a steep ridge against an early morning sky. Another day I see him stepping between rock outcrops on the bay shoreline, always alone for he is not simply being athletic, he is traversing the physical landscape of his paintings.
Bruce Hunt, probably unknowingly, paces the difficult contours of landforms he will paint, even of other places, as though visual information is reinforced and stored through his feet and lungs. This communion with the land empowers him with a perception that is essential to his way of working indoors, as a studio painter.
If as painters we do not pursue a particular and deeper understanding of the content of our work then we become mere copyists. Bruce’s almost duo-chromatic landscapes of recent times are bare, still, almost without human mark. They are vast spaces into which those of us, who are unafraid, can glide on our own private flights. Effortlessly too since Bruce has done all the climbing.
The portraits and figure studies too rest in broad, often undefined background fields, suggesting the subject’s general aura be generously considered and given room to expand to fill the frame.
Bruce Hunt arranges his compositional viewpoints in layers of acrylic pigment with a quiet and neat virtuosity. I would imagine he paints in a state of quiet deliberation, content with a strategy of returning often to a place previously visited in memory and method.
David Barker, 2004
