Gender and art

Alexis Hunter. Approach to Fear XIII: Pain - Destruction of Cause, 1977.

Museum of New Zealand / Te Papa Tongarewa:

"Te Papa is saddened to hear about the death of London-based New Zealand artist Alexis Hunter on 24 February 2014.

Three years after completing her studies at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 1969, Hunter relocated to England and established herself in London. She was an active participant in the women’s art movement and her art works in a range of media express a powerfully feminist viewpoint.

Hunter continued to exhibit in New Zealand and in 1989 a survey exhibition of her work titled Fears / Dreams / Desires was held at the Auckland City Art Gallery. The exhibition included her photographic series ‘Approach to Fear’ 1976-77, and a selection of painting and prints made between 1981-89. [...]"

Richard Saltoun Gallery announces a two person exhibition of works by Alexis Hunter and Jo Spence, bringing together important and rarely seen feminist work from the 70s and 80s. Hunter's series of Xeroxes and photographs are displayed alongside a selection of Spence's Phototherapy works. These illustrate Spence's commitment to the therapeutic capabilities of photography, and offered a way to reframe memory through a process of restaging personal experiences. The exhibition is an opportunity to view two artists work that have been hugely influential to the development of feminist art in the UK.